#fat politics

[softandorsweet]

being fat is hard because you don’t just run into inaccessibility that affects only you. for example, if i’m bigger than a car seat is built for, then i inconvenience those sitting next to me. if i’m bigger than a room is built for, i encroach on others space. it makes the fat person feel like it’s a personal fault, and skinny people are often not kind to fat folks who take up space. i want to make this clear: it is Not the fat persons fault AND i understand the strain and shame it can cause fat people. this world is built to exclude fat people. fitting of my favorite phrase inspired by the social model of disability; it’s not the fat persons fault, it’s the worlds fault.

#fat #fat liberation #fat politics #anti fatness #fatphobia #disability #social model of disability #inaccessibility #mine #text post #fatness

[silvaurum]

if the idea of 'fat people are hot' makes you so agonizingly uncomfortable that you have to pop up with 'fetishization' or 'glorifying' or 'not everyone--' please consider that your discomfort with my fat body being hot is a You Problem and i am not interested

#making the tags on the other blog their own post bc im right and i should say it #fat positive #fat politics #body positive

[fatliberationdamnit]

Fat people have always existed and will always exist! We have always been part of the world! We deserve to live full lives the same way everyone else does!

#fat liberation #fat positivity #fat politics #fat activism #fat acceptance

[wynniebear]

It would be so cool if the body positive crowd would be understanding about fetishists.

We are people with multi-faceted personalities. Most of us (and I really do mean most) have the ability to check our kinks at the door when it's an inappropriate situation to share those topics. A group of creepy people, who often cross boundaries, don't represent us all. Most of us who partake in these kinks are fat and practice fat positive politics. We are on the same side.

We are fat people. We are disabled people. We are queer people. We are people with intersecting identities. We are simply looking for pleasure in a world that doesn't want any of us to exist.

Fragmenting an already marginalized group doesn't benefit anyone. It's just not something that makes sense. If we want to improve the situation for all fat people, then all fat people should be welcome in body positive/fat positive spaces.

#fat politics #fat positive

[playerprophet]

This is Meredith, a friend of mine who, whenever I encounter her at parties I always ask her about her research on this stuff. She's fat-positive and doing research for her PhD on weight-loss surgery in Canada. In her tweets she says she's looking to talk to people who are "engaged in fat politics, have had negative or harmful experiences in surgery", particularly cis men, trans and non-binary people, and BIPOC.

Meredith is one of the most gentle and kind people I know and I'm sure talking to her will be a wonderful experience. It seems like she could use more fat trans voices in her research, and I am sharing this with her permission, because I know there are a lot of people on tumblr who have a lot to say. Let your voices be heard!

Contact her at besseym at uoguelph dot ca, and signal boost!

#fat positive #weight loss #weight loss surgery #academic research #Canada #fat politics #fat #fat activism #fat acceptance

[tasteless-vermin]

i don’t think people realize that even if you claim to be size-positive you are still saying harmful things.

you can “you’re fat and thats beautiful” all day everyday but if you follow that up with “don’t wear this it makes you look boxy” or “that has no shape add a belt” maybe you need to step away from the conversation.

i hate to tell you but some people are boxy. some people have “unattractive” body types and you need to learn to be Normal about it.

people can wear clothes that make them look “boxy” or “frumpy” and that’s fine! as long as the clothes make them happy it’s fine! you need to find it in your heart to stop caring.

judging people on body shape rather than size is still bad and i’m not sure what it’ll take to explain that.

this isn’t all to say that you/someone shouldn’t have clothes that fit well. don’t put words in my mouth. every living soul on earth deserves clothes that are good quality and fit how they want it to.

this is genuinely just about people claiming to be body positive (or god forbid body-progressive or something else more radical) that Still choose to make comments about a person’s figure without considering where those thoughts are coming from.

#even with all that said #the beauty standard changes so much #shapeless and boxy was in before and it’ll be back in again #probably soon with the whole post pandemic ‘thin is in’ deal #sure shapeless and boxy was only good when it was on the skinny body but when have fat ppl ever Actually been liked #i’m so sleepy i’m sorry if this is poorly worded #fatphobia #fat politics #body positivity

[flipstick]

These two posts having an "I hate fat headcanons" competition

#i knew highschool boys who never went to the gym that look like laios and had bellies when they sat #and common people irl would bully falin for being a chubby girl #so who are posts like these serving? #dungeon meshi #falin dungeon meshi #falin touden #laois touden #fat laios #fat politics #myrants

[fruitymarcy]

People don't talk enough about how our public spaces aren't designed with fat people in mind. I live in the US, and for how much of America's population is plus-sized, public areas are really not built with people like me in mind. I shouldn't be unable to find a chair I fit in in public, but that's happened more times than I can count. I mean I understand, I'm very fat, I won't say my weight but I will say that by medical standards I'm considered morbidly obese. I recognize that not all chairs can necessarily be designed to fit everyone. I do however think it's absolutely unreasonable that there aren't any chairs that fit me at some places. It's absolutely unreasonable that my only option is discomfort, that my only option is to try to squeeze into a chair and have the arms of the chair dig into my sides

On the rare occasion I do see people discuss the inherent size discrimination in the design of public spaces, often the majority of people simply shift the blame to the fat people discussing it. "Just lose weight." Just lose weight? Sure, I could go through the effort of doing that. Sure, that would solve the issue for me. But I shouldn't have to go through that, I shouldn't have to change myself when I don't necessarily want to. It would solve the issue for me, but what about all the other fat people out there? It's ridiculous to pin the blame on fat people and say we should just change ourselves, public spaces are meant to serve the public and so accommodations should be made to serve all of the public

I don't find it unreasonable to ask for some kind of regulations requiring public spaces to provide accommodations for fat people. It'd be nothing new either, obviously we change spaces to upgrade them and accommodate more people with things like ramps for example. Widen doors, provide bigger chairs, etc. If America could spend 740 billion dollars on the military last year, it can afford to spend a tiny fraction of that amount on upgrading public areas. In fact, some local governments in the US have passed antidiscrimination laws to protect fat people, so if that can happen I see no reason we can't address the discrimination in how public areas are designed

Comfort should not be a privilege for the thin alone. I should be able to be a fat person and be comfortable in public. End of story

#fat politics #fat positive #fat positivity #fatphobia

[hungwy-sinner]

Does anyone else feel like they’re ‘not allowed’ to complain about the struggles of being fat just because it’s ‘a choice’ to be fat or it’s ‘something you can avoid/fix’? Maybe it’s just my ‘suck it up, buttercup’ upbringing, but I feel like I’m not allowed to express that there are aspects of my life that are unenjoyable because of my choices that I’m otherwise happy with :/

#mine #fatphobia #fat politics #and don’t get me started on the ‘fix’ thing I hate that #not kink

[softandorsweet]

being fat is so hard purely because of the world we live in. it’s so possible to create a world where fatness is supported and cared for and yet we live in a world where you run into inaccessibilities all the time. it’s the worlds fault, not the fat persons fault.

#fat #fat liberation #fatness #text post #mine #fat politics

[hometownrockstar]

I hate the argument abt when you say customizable games should have fat people and people say "well it would be harder to model or scale clothes to fit" cause like i guess youre technically right, but why then are fat people not seen as worth the effort to actually code and model these things? Someone else said this abt baldur's gate but they said "in an RPG like that game shouldn't the priority be on allowing people to express themselves as much as possible with designing their character?" Also like fat people aren't a rarity or minority, even if all media ever wants to give people the impression that the world is 99% skinny people with maybe one or two fat villains or sidekick friends.

#A lottt of arguments against including or accommodating fat people eventually boil down to #Continuing to believe fatness is a choice. And therefore the burden to change should be on them to lose weight #Rather than for institutions or society or other people to put in the effort to humanize and accommodate fat people #Fat politics

[furiagorda]

Las personas gordas siempre hemos existido, y siempre vamos a existir.

#furia gorda #activismo gorde #fat activism #activismo gordo #gordofobia #fat liberation #fatpol #fatlib #fat politics #fat acceptance #fat positive

[acorpsecalledcorva]

The skinny girls getting upset that they're being asked not to post pictures to the tummy Tuesday tags which are largely used for body positivity is such a damning indictment of the fragility of white supremacy. Like damn, if your sense of self value is so easily threatened by people you view as being inherently beneath you not "knowing their place" for 5 fucking minutes then maybe you need to revaluate your sources of validation.

Fatphobia and skinny centrism cannot be separated from racist bio essentialism, if y'all can't accept that then I cannot help you. Yes, body positivity is for everyone, that's why these tags are so fucking important, because it gives a space for bodies viewed negatively everywhere else to have somewhere, anywhere, to be enjoyed and absolutely have a right to defend that space from being overtaken by bodies that already have mainstream acceptance.

#fatphobia #fat positive #fat politics #i love my fat wife #spending my day rubbing my face on her tummy

[whereserpentswalk]

so you think you just want to be thin for no reason? it isn’t the fact that society treats fat people worse and clothing is harder and more expensive to find and that you don’t receive proper medical care? none of those things? you think your preferences were made in a vacuum?

I was generally pretty accepted for my weight back when I was fat. I honestly get more weirdness because of my current body type thanks to creeps like you (and other types of creeps). The reason I'm happier like this is because I just look like I want to look, it's really that simple.

You're just giving me the same spiel terfs give to trans men. The vast majority of people who want to change their bodies aren't changing them because of oppression, if that were the case there would be a lot more transracial people. The main reason people want to lose weight is the same as the reason why almost anyone wants to change their body: because they want to look how they feel. There are healthy and unhealthy ways of going about this, but the feelings just are.

People have the right to do what they want to their bodies, especially if it means feeling more comfortable as yourself. This includes medical transition, tattoos, and piercings, and it also includes gaining or losing fat and muscle. Our bodies are our property to do what we want to with.

And if you think the fact that I'm not fat anymore is something you get to approve or disapprove of, it means you consider my body to be something you have a right to control. You're no different than a catcaller that way honestly.

#196 #my thougts #fatphobia #fat politics #fat positive #body positive #body neutrality #body image

[turtle-toe]

My experience with and opinion on fat acceptance

I am currently 16 years old and 5'6, 169 pounds. I need to tell my story.

I've been fat or chubbier my entire life due to poor eating habits taught to me early on. "Oh, you want thirds on that giant plate of yours? Sure, go right ahead." But I never really noticed until about 5th grade and really got self conscious in 6th grade. But, I was healthy. I'd say I was around 5'3 and 155-160 pounds. I moved around a lot, I was running with no thought about breath control every day at recess. But I still sucked in my guy and wore giant shirts so no one could see the shape of my body. Then, Covid hit.

I gained what i thought was so much weight during lockdown, as everyone else did too, as well as my oh so quirky mental illnesses. I was at 168 and it made me feel horrible. But not in the health way but the outer appearance way. Then I discovered fat acceptance.

I went from sucking in my gut to being sucked into a harmful mindset that I cannot change but that's okay.

Now, I have to give the movement credit where it's due; it both positively and negatively affected me. The negative part was that i gained about 20 pounds. I got to 180. The positive was that I gained confidence that I desperately needed. I started to not care as much about what I thought people would think, I started to wear more form fitting clothes, I started to even wear two piece swimsuits. But that 20 pounds felt absolutely horrible. And after about two years in the fat acceptance movement, I finally got out of it.

I finally stopped blaming everyone else, either for not being "fat positive" or for being the ones who made me fat. I finally stopped thinking the "naturally" skinny girls were my worst enemy. I finally stopped blaming my genetics. I finally realized just how much I was grossly overeating. I finally saw just how bad I was and how the path I was taking would've lead me to major health problems and an unhappy life filled with resentment and bitterness.

So I took that confidence given to me by the movement and I used it to better myself. After many ups and downs, I managed to get down to 162. I've gained 7 pounds back but I'm trying my best to be consistent. And this health journey started because I wanted to be healthier and just feel better, mostly because I wanted to justify it because I thought that it was wrong of me to want to lose weight to look a certain way. But honestly, fuck that. I don't care if it's fat phobic of me to want my own body to be smaller. So, health is a priority for me but I will be damned if I don't start looking the way I want.

And I tagged this with so many of these fat acceptance tags because I know for damn sure that I would've needed this post three years ago. To hear how it affected someone close to my age. So to anyone who is feeling like shit because you feel as though you can't lose weight or you don't feel as pretty as others; you can do this. You're absolutely gorgeous and handsome and pretty and interesting no matter how you look. But please, please, please don't take to the fat acceptance movement as a way go block out and ignore your insecurities. It doesn't work, it will only get worse. I lost those 17 pounds just by eating a few more vegetables and very inconsistent exercise. I realize everyone is different but it's way easier than you think it is.

Please, y'all, take care of yourselves.

#fat acceptance #tw fatphobia #fat liberation #fat life #fat activism #anti fatness #health at every size #haes #body postivity #body positive #body posititivity #intuitive eating #body neutrality #fat positive #fat positvity #fat politics #cw fatphobia #weight loss #diet #weightloss #healthy diet #tw weight #tw weighloss