August 2011
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Over what?
When we are born, we have this idea that the whole world is us and those who love us. Then we move on to assuming that we are the template of humanity by which all others must be judged.
Some of us get past that too.
Thanks loads to the ‘acceptably weighted’ for wearing that mantle with regard to weight, but I’m afraid that has worn thin.
We are what we are fat, we are not...
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friendofmarilyn:
“Can fat people be healthy? A provocative new study shows that obese people who are otherwise healthy live just as long as their slim counterparts. And that wasn’t the only surprising finding. The study also showed otherwise healthy obese people are even less likely than lean people to die of cardiovascular disease. “Our findings challenge the idea that all obese individuals need...
Noble resistance
banyanroot:
a question of class. dorothy allison.
I grew up poor, hated, the victim of physical, emotional, and sexual violence, and I know that suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying...
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Why are you fat?
We do not have to answer this “question”. Okay? When asked it or a version of, we don’t have to reply, complain or explain.
We are no longer on trial (our decision) we no longer need to justify or excuse.
WE JUST ARE.
In fact it’s less of a question, more of an invitation to be on the defensive which we can decline.
Pass it on.
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Consent
When you see a doctor in an official capacity, it is called a consultation, because two equals are consulting with each other. One the lay person consults the other the professional for their expertise not to be forced to do anything.
It is not a master, servant thing.
Basically the doctor seeks to find out if any symptoms you are presenting with indicate some underlying threat or challenge to...
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Fatty Diary: $300 for being 300 pounds? →
fattydiary:
The other week, I started work like any normal day. I actually was having a cheerful morning. Woke up on time and got there early so I headed to the kitchen to get coffee, like I do every single morning. Unfortunately, I was about to see something that would ruin my day and week. I noticed a sign…
Wow, they are basically charging people for not participating in self abuse...
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Listening to Silence: RE: Fat Acceptance →
eth-leach:
bumsquash:
eth-leach:
Guys, I appreciate if I say something you find offensive, you should definitely say so, but could you tell me what exactly it is that’s offensive in particular?
And thank you, I am aware I can Google it, but I much prefer a human who can tell me what it means to them and allow me to question…
Doesn’t everyone? Truth is, these things are difficult from a...
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Listening to Silence: RE: Fat Acceptance →
eth-leach:
Guys, I appreciate if I say something you find offensive, you should definitely say so, but could you tell me what exactly it is that’s offensive in particular?
And thank you, I am aware I can Google it, but I much prefer a human who can tell me what it means to them and allow me to question…
Doesn’t everyone? Truth is, these things are difficult from a standing start...
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Classism is where the left goes to die
redlightpolitics:
What have we become when European leftists are happy to see more police in the street, more social control, more protections for the middle classes? Did I wake up in an alternate universe where the left has abandoned all ideology in pursuit of private property?! It couldn’t possibly be that these leftists have bought into the “brown menace”, no? Nah, I am sure I am just...
FattiBOOMbalatti: diet boards →
fattiboombalatti:
Sometimes just for fun I like to Troll diet message boards… yeah I know… I dont know why… yes I am a bit mad.
The one thing I’ve noticed over and over again were posts by people who had used the plan went off of it and then regained the weight and were retrying the program. In every single…
Not once is the diet blamed, its rather the poor hapless Fatty who killed...
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Fat acceptance....
….is not a response to mainstream banalities such as “Is fat healthy?”, “you are costing us”, “we don’t like Fatselina Bumsquashes around here” and so on.
We are fat etc., people and we have been erased from that discourse therefore merely responding to it, just perpetuates that erasure.
No we have something far better ourselves, our experiences,...
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Block fools
melasaurus:
Gonna have to stop reading the fat acceptance tag on here cos more and more fat shaming posts have been appearing under it and its so shit.
Just block ‘em, that’s what I do, as many as is necessary. I mean things like “It doesn’t kill you to be healthy” are just turds in thought form. I don’t engage or argue with these people, they just drag you...
