Reblogged from thisisthinprivilege
FULL-FAT HUMANITY
Not any kind of fat.
Except, obesity isn’t a disease. People of any size have cancer. Obesity is defined not as the presence of so-called ‘fat diseases.’ It’s a simple volume calculation.
In other words, there’s no way to divorce ‘fat people’ from ‘obesity’ because obesity is defined as fatness of a certain degree. A war on obesity means a war on fat people. The whole idea is to change fat people, either through therapies or pills or shame or forced behavioral changes or some means. But it’s the fat person who is being focused on, the fat person who the anti-obesity warriors want to alter, not some abstract disease called ‘obesity.’
It just goes to show you how successful the War on Obesity propaganda has been, that it’s redefined a body size as a disease and abstracted it so that people who are being called to arms against it don’t see themselves as fighting fat people, but as some dehumanized concept called ‘obesity.’
-ATL
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Oh FFS, people WHO HAVE cancer are not called “The cancer.” Cancer is not a used as a collective noun for people. Cancer is not their body, themselves. Nor is cancer described as a “lifestyle”.
Please sign my petition? Pass it along! #IAmNotADisease
Using weight to define health is inaccurate, unscientific prejudice. It directly fuels discrimination in the workplace, from insurers, in medical care, and in social interactions. The war on so-called “obesity” [sic] is a war on fat people. Doctors already exhibit dangerous levels of weight bias. Fat people deserve care, not condemnation. Correlation≠causation. Behavior≠BMI. Weight≠health. Hate is not good for public health.
NoBODY has the right to change the status of other human beings to that of disease. The medical profession is not god, though some of them have clearly lost sight of that. This high handed treatment of people is pushing even the long suffering tolerance of fat people to its limits. Fat people are people not disease. And we are people that can be well or ill just like any other weight category. That basis is the same as any other weight categorization and must remain so for fat people to be properly assessed. Disease has become an increasingly imprecise term due to its increasingly flagrant mis-use. It is used to manipulate opinion, to change perceptions, rather than to define. This must also cease. Either words mean what they mean or they don’t.
Why do you think you can tell anyone about your own?
Is an oxymoron.
A major purpose of the ‘obesity’ construct is to deny the individuality of people.
The problem with placing fat as opposite to thin is fat people are defined as copies of one singular character. This turns the idea of traits in opposition into people in opposition with each other.
Whilst I’m at it, I keep hearing people say fatness is a body type. It is not. All body types are fat, medium and slim. It’s just that probably the spread of types that varies. There is no fat type.
All shapes, phenotypes, heights, metabolic types (yes, fast and slow) physical/mental abilities etc., are fat, medium, slim and thin.
I hate comments like “I don’t support fat shaming but obesity is too often overlooked and excused!”
What does “excuse” even mean? Who’s excusing me?
I guess every time I interact with people they have to forgive my fat before we can communicate.
Thanks for saying this. I have never had an “excuse” for being fat in my life. For most of it I blamed myself. When I re-claimed ownership of my body from the obesity pseudo science, I was not interested in blame.
What can you do with people who cannot get beyond their own paradigms? Alas, very little.
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Because the “before” is just soooo gross….
Mod note: This comic literally illustrates how we are socialized to privilege thinness and (especially women) to desire to be thin. -ATL
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mydigitalromance replied to your photo: [source] Because the “before” is just soooo…
the artist stated how this picture was about how she felt about her /own/ body, no one else’s. i dont see how this is relevant to thin privilege, but can see how it mixes in about how we are forced to see own bodies with fat as flawed.
The artist has been socialized by a society that privileges thinness just like the rest of us. The drawing is clearly about feelings, and many fat people have the same desire to ‘step out of the fat suit’ as it were — largely due to a society that tells us we’re really thin people under all this fat, like it’s something extra and outside of ourselves, something to be taken off (or out). -ATL
This is how we are supposed to see ourselves-as slim bodies in hiding. Fatness is a disease called ‘obesity’. It’s not even rational at all. How utterly aggrandizing of slim bodies. Like they’re the only bodies that are real or valid.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/faa80b318be2d3132bb52cc537196877/tumblr_mm6oe1jmQa1rxfsnwo1_500.png)
Because the “before” is just soooo gross….
Mod note: This comic literally illustrates how we are socialized to privilege thinness and (especially women) to desire to be thin. -ATL
EDIT:
mydigitalromance replied to your photo: [source] Because the “before” is just soooo…
the artist stated how this picture was about how she felt about her /own/ body, no one else’s. i dont see how this is relevant to thin privilege, but can see how it mixes in about how we are forced to see own bodies with fat as flawed.
The artist has been socialized by a society that privileges thinness just like the rest of us. The drawing is clearly about feelings, and many fat people have the same desire to ‘step out of the fat suit’ as it were — largely due to a society that tells us we’re really thin people under all this fat, like it’s something extra and outside of ourselves, something to be taken off (or out). -ATL
This is how we are supposed to see ourselves-as slim bodies in hiding. Fatness is a disease called ‘obesity’. It’s not even rational at all. How utterly aggrandizing of slim bodies. Like they’re the only bodies that are real or valid.
It takes real discipline to be able to accept the perception that you’re wrong. It takes real discipline to endeavour to try to make that right. Fat people you have discipline, your existence as a fat person has been all about discipline.
Self acceptance is hard. Detaching yourself from the anti fat messages around you, even harder.
But never forget, you’ve already done things that are just as hard, if not harder. Your capacity for discipline is way above par. Just look at how much trouble others have admitting they were wrong, about you.
[TW: Eating Disorder]
One of the things I hate most about the eating disorder culture is that is built on the back of literal fat phobia. Now, don’t get me wrong for a moment, I understand the horrors of eating disorders; on a very personal level, in fact. But I do think it needs to be…
The people you’re addressing don’t give a shit. Not only do they feel entitled to describe their feelings of acute self loathing as ‘fat’. They actually want fat people to approve of this AND feel sorry for them.
So they want to be fat phobic and they want fat people to support that or else it’s “ableist” etc., etc., emotional blackmail blah, blah.
In doing this of course, we would be taken right back to our pre-conscious days, when we did things like this as a matter of course. To try and make ourselves look less awful. Supported and approved fat phobia, no matter the damage it did to us, we deserved it. That’s what they want to continue. As you’ve said, they built their little citadel during that phase.
If fat people had a voice then, they would not have been able to do that. And they still would have been able to describe their feelings and their “eating disorders” (does that term ever not mean * thin/slim people with ED’s?)
It’s not so much their fat phobia that offends, it’s that they expect us to play that stupid-even though we are now fully aware of it (we weren’t before so at least it was authentic for us. Now we’re expected to do the same, whilst being aware of the damage it’s doing.
And frankly, its clear that there are plenty of fat people who will support them in this and attack anyone who objects. Because that’s the good=thin/slim being “attacked” by bad fatz who don’t understand *eating disorders.
