Fat Hate Bingo! We won’t tolerate any of that shit here
Why I’m not looking forward to spending tomorrow with the family.
- I can be sure that people aren’t embarrassed to be seen with me because of the size of my body.
- If I pick up a magazine or watch T.V. I will see bodies that look like mine that aren’t being lampooned, desexualized, or used to signify laziness, ignorance, or lack of self-control.
- When I talk about the size of my body I can be certain that few other people will hope they are never the same size.
- I do not have to be afraid that when I talk to my friends or family they will mention the size of my body in a critical manner, or suggest unsolicited diet products and exercise programs.
- I will not be accused of being emotionally troubled or in psychological denial because of the size of my body.
- I can go home from meetings, classes, and conversations and not feel excluded, fearful, attacked, isolated, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance, stereotyped, or feared because of the size of my body.
- I never have to speak for size acceptance as a movement. My thoughts about my body can be my own with no need for political alliance relative to size.
- I can be sure that when I go to a class, or movie, or restaurant that I will find a place to sit in which I am relatively comfortable.
- I don’t have to worry that if I am talking about feeling of sexual attraction people are repelled or disgusted by the size of my body. People can imagine me in sexual circumstances.
- People won’t ask me why I don’t change the size of my body.
- My masculinity or femininity will not be challenged because of the size of my body.
- I can be sure that if I need medical or legal help my size will not work against me.
- I am not identified by the size of my body.
- I can walk in public with my significant other and not have people double take or stare.
- I can go for months without thinking about or being spoken to about the size of my body.
- I am not grouped because of the size of my body.
- I will never have to sit quietly and listen while other people talk about the ways in which they avoid being my size.
- I don’t have to worry that won’t be hired for a job that I can do because of the size of my body.
Reblog forever. I wish more people could comprehend how emotionally draining it is to be burdened with all this sexiness.
(Source: fatshadow.com)
when I hear or see anything on the subject of Michelle Obama’s new campaign against “childhood obesity”, I feel a terrible knot in my stomach, because I know this sort of approach will always, inevitably, turn into a campaign against obese children. And fat kids have enough to worry about, frankly. They have to fight hard already to resist this culture that tells them their size will always hold them back; they do not need to be further singled out by a crusade mounted by this nation’s (in all other respects, rightfully so) beloved First Lady. I was damaged as a result of being a fat kid, certainly; however, what damaged me was not my fat, but the messages I received about fatness. I was damaged by both perceiving myself and being treated by others as inferior, an object, something in need of repair, and not a person worthy of basic respect. I was seriously damaged by the endless dieting, such that I grew into adulthood with absolutely no idea of how to eat in a healthful and self-aware way. I was damaged by the idea that so long as I was fat, my life would be forever on hold, as only thin people get to be smart or successful in life.
Laura Fraser, Losing It: America’s Obsession with Weight and the Industry that Feeds on It (via crustyriotgrrl) (via loveandzombies) (via novazembla) (via feminaction)
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“Fat stigma affects everyone’s health — fat, thin or in between.”
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