Scattered Marbles

bitetheapple:

I am totally in favor of body acceptance and the social activist/political movements surrounding that. Most people who are even remotely feminist are. It’s no secret that the way that the media portrays people, especially women, is crap; magazines, especially, Photoshop women who are already…

sugaredvenom:

• 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…

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heyfatchick:

The Big Ballet

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therotund:

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johre:

therotund:

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This showed up on my LJ friends list, tagged as “inspirational.”

I think it was the tag, more than anything else, that resulted in the instant unfriending. Because if your inspiration depends on belittling and trying to humiliate other people?

Well, you’re no fucking friend of mine, even in the incredibly liberal sense of the word that we bandy about online.

Yeah, rejecting the dominant social paradigm is SO FUCKING EASY. <—- sarcasm, if you didn’t catch that

Shit like this makes me so angry - I’m not WEAK because I don’t diet. I’m stronger for it. It was my weak moments that lead to me hurting myself in pursuit of an arbitrary standard that is ultimately meaningless. That’s narrow and limiting and designed to perpetuate oppression.

Fuck that. Fuck your sanctimonious, self-righteous “inspirational” GARBAGE.

How about this? It’s easier to keep participating in diet culture because that’s what we’re constantly pressured to do. It’s easier to hate yourself than it is to change an entire system. I WILL sit here, day after day, though - I will sit here and tell you that if you are looking for an alternative to self-loathing, then fat acceptance can be that alternate path. I will absolutely be here, no matter how much you doubt. Because someone has to be. And because it’s my life, too. Let’s eat pizza AND run on the treadmill - if that’s what we choose to do. And let’s not judge other people for what we assume their choices are either because that’s the height of arrogant ass-holery.

its so easy to tell whos fat on tumblr

Actually, it’s so easy to tell who’s into fat politics on tumblr. *eyeroll* It’s sometimes easy to tell who’s fat on tumblr because we keep posting pictures of how kickass awesome we are.

Actually, it’s easy to tell who’s over-reacting in reference to a tough love post. If you’re fat, keep complaining your fat and decide to do nothing about it, then this post is for you. You’re assuming this person who wrote it is telling you to lose weight because OMG SOCIETY SAYS!! when it CLEARLY SAYS that if you FUCKING WANT IT, YOU DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO. It just happens to be about losing weight. And, it has nothing to do with fat acceptance, it has to do with someone bitching endlessly about being fat and apparently doing jack shit to change it.

If you dont want to go on a treadmill, fine, whatever, this whole “statement” isnt even forcing you to do so. I think you’re just finding an excuse to white knight people who you think are forcing you to be thin.

For the record, I am 5’3” and over 200 pounds, ALL FOR FAT CHICK ACCEPTANCE. And I can read apparently.

It doesn’t clearly say anywhere anything about the desire of the people who “needs” to lose weight. It says a LOT about the person who thinks they should.

Thanks for closing on the implication that I can’t read, by the way. That’s real special of you.

“Tough love” is, in our diet- and body-obsessed culture, most often just an excuse to say mean things to people based on your own prejudices. This frames exercise versus eating pizza as though they only happen in opposition to each other. This frames those representative activities as though thin people don’t ever eat junk food or skip the gym.

And, frankly, you’re framing this as though “doing what you need to do” - which is apparently weight loss - is even possible for the vast majority of people in the longterm.

This is a hugely problematic thing to tag as “inspirational” and if you don’t have a problem with it, that’s totes fine by me. But I do. And I can apparently discuss it without resorting to insults about people versus ideas.

Ok so seriously TheRotund put into words so well how offense, stupid and narrrow-minded this image is, so much better than I ever could. All I have to say is.. you know what would REALLY be worth it? If people could shelve their pathetic judgmental attitudes about other peoples bodies and keep their noses in their own flippin business this world would be such a better place… honestly now.

imremembering:

A New Way To Walk

Remembered by Shlee & Leo

So love this, now I can’t get it out of my head

gabifresh:

:-)

riotsnotdiets:

Oh hey, guess what?  The fatosphere is the best.  A couple weeks ago, I got a message in my ask box asking for a subtitled version of the documentary for the Deaf/deaf and HOH.  THEN I got a message from Erin of innerfatgirl letting me know that she was working on subtitling the film… and last night I got an email with the link to the finished product!  (NOTE: For some reason the video won’t embed correctly, but you can view the subtitled version here—I will try to fix this ASAP.)

From what I understand, parts of the video were still too quiet to be heard, so I’m hoping to go in sometime this week or next and put the missing parts in.  Additionally, a Shakesville commenter named katebears wrote up a transcript of the documentary, which you can find here.

THANK YOU SO, SO, SO MUCH TO ERIN!!!  And katebears!  And everyone for making this documentary so special.

Lots of big fat internet love,

Margitte

So glad this was made, getting positive messages about the fat body out into the world is so very important! Thank you for this and also for the transcripts!

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