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Body Acceptance Project
As part of my diploma in school I have to do a campaign, and I’m doing mine on body acceptance. For it, I plan to make a short video to raise awareness, and I was wondering if you guys could help me?!
During the video I want to show clips of loooads of different people saying “I love my body.” It could be of your face, or of you standing up showing off your bod, anything like that. As long as it’s clear, and the audio is easy to here, I’ll be able to use it <:3
The video will be going on youtube once it’s completed so I’d need your complete consent for that.
If you want to help, record a short clip of yourself saying it (with a biiiiig smile!) and then you can either:
- upload it to a file sharing site and send me the link
- email it to me (my email is x_anomalous@hotmail.co.uk)
Even if you won’t do it, please reblog to spread it around?! Thankyouu!
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But then, the truth was never really the point. Thin women don’t tell their fat friends ‘You’re not fat’ because they’re confused about the dictionary definition of the word, or their eyes are broken, or they were raised on planets where size 24 is the average for women. They don’t say it because it’s the truth. They say it because fat does not mean just fat in this culture. It can also mean any or all of the following:
Ugly
Unhealthy
Smelly
Lazy
Ignorant
Undisciplined
Unlovable
Burdensome
Embarrassing
Unfashionable
Mean
Angry
Socially inept
Just plain icky
So when they say ‘You’re not fat,’ what they really mean is ‘You’re not a dozen nasty things I associate with the word fat.’ The size of your body is not what’s in question; a tape measure or a mirror could solve that dispute. What’s in question is your goodness, your lovability, your intelligence, your kindness, your attractiveness. And your friends, not surprisingly, are inclined to believe you get high marks in all those categories. Ergo, you couldn’t possibly be fat.
” — Kate Harding (via rhiannon-random)
So this is trending on Twitter right now.
If you need me, my fat ass will be hibernating.
BTW… unknowable woman,
Before I left for dinner, I decided to post a real fatgirldream for #fatpeopledreams. I only had time for one… but I plan on posting quite a few things over the course of the weekend… :)
Anyone else in tumblrland want to help me hijack the “fatpeopledreams” tag this weekend?
This is a series of ads from the early 20th century right up to the 1970s.
You might notice what they’re advertising is, instead of the weight loss solutions we’re used to today, they’re actually advertising weight GAIN.
‘It’s hard to believe they once called me skinny!’
‘Skinny girls are NOT glamour girls!’
‘a skinny, scarecrow figure is neither fashionable nor glamourous!’
‘thousands quickly gaining beauty-bringing pounds!’
Notice how less than a hundred years ago, these ads were meant to shame thin bodies the way weight loss ads shame fat bodies today? Notice that how as time goes by, the ‘ideal’ body shape changes from era to era? Notice how in these ads as well as those seen today, they’re meant to make people feel bad about the way they look?
These ads are just as bad as the ones that run today. They’re meant to shame you and make you feel inadequate for one sole reason: so you go out and spend money on their products. It’s not about your self esteem, your health, or your happiness. It’s about selling the product. It’s about making the money.
Your body is NOT wrong. You don’t need pills, diets, or supplements to make you happy, attractive, or ‘right’. All bodies are good bodies. It doesn’t matter if you’re skinny, fat, tall, short, disabled, scarred, anything at all.
Do not let the media dictate what you think you should be. The media is fickle. It does not care about you. Don’t let yourself care about what it says.
Love,
Fat ≠ Unattractive
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Why is it accepted that some people who eat a ton of food can stay thin, but not accepted that some people who eat a small amount of food can be fat?
Since thin people get diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure, why is becoming thin suggested as a cure?
Why bother using BMI as a substitute for metabolic health measures when we can easily test metabolic health measures?
Doctors treat thin people for joint pain with options other than weight loss, why don’t they give fat people those same treatments?
Why do we believe that doing unhealthy things (liquid diet, smoking, urine injections coupled with starvation, stomach amputation) will lead to a healthy body?
If the diet industry’s product actually “cured fatness”, wouldn’t their profits be going down instead of up as more and more people were permanently thin?
Isn’t it medically unethical to prescribe something without telling your patients that it works less than 5% of the time with a much greater chance at leaving you heavier and less healthy than when you started?
Why do people continue to think that shaming people will lead them to health?
Why do we accept wide variations in things like foot and hand size, nose and lip shape etc. but expect every body to fit into a very narrow proportion of height and weight?
If weight gain isn’t proven to cause diabetes, high blood pressure etc., why would weight loss be recommended as a cure?
Since weight loss ads have to carry a “results not typical” warning, shouldn’t doctors have to give patients a similar warning?
Why do people take the time to come to my blog and make death threats?
Does anyone really succeed at hating themselves healthy? If so is it worth it?
If we’ve been prescribing dieting since the 1800s and still can’t prove that it works, shouldn’t we be trying something else?
How is it possible that suggesting that healthy habits are the best chance for a healthy body is controversial?
” —Some Things I Don’t Understand « Dances With Fat (via jerseyjezebel)
YES to everything but the death threats.
(via masquesoporfavor)
Fat Acceptance is the stupidest social justice movement in the history of the world.
Accept fat people for being fat?
No, I will not accept that it’s okay to be an unhealthy mess of a human being with a much higher chance of having physical and health problems.
- Heart disease
- Stroke
- High Blood Pressure
- Diabetes
- Cancer
- Breathing problems
Those are just a few problems linked to being overweight/fat/obese.
Well, there are also thin people with these issues sooooo…..
Being fat doesn’t cause those things. An unhealthy lifestyle does…. which guess what? Fat and thin people alike can both have an unhealthy lifestyle.
Yeah OP, do some research before spouting your unsubstantiated hate.
OP, you are so right, fatphobia and all other hate has more of a place in this world than fat people do. /sarcasm
Nothing about my post was hateful at all you moron. It was speaking simple facts about health risks linked to obesity, but it’s a lot easy for you people to label me as a hateful fat phobic then to acknowledge the risks your own life faces.
1. The title of your post is “Fat Acceptance is the stupidest social justice movement in the history of the world.” yes, that is hateful.
2. You are making the assumption that if someone is fat they are automatically unhealthy, which is not true. There are plenty of fat people with healthy lifestyles. I’d also like to point out that someone’s lifestyle is not yours to dictate.
3. Even IF a fat person is unhealthy, health is not often something we choose, be it a cigarette addiction, food addiction, if someone has an illness they are ILL, so why is that something you are unwilling to tolerate? Would you tell a person who is sick they are wrong for being sick?
4. Fat people exist, some healthy, some not, same as skinny people, some healthy, some not, you cannot judge someone’s health just by looking at them. The only reason Fat Acceptance has to be a movement in the first place is because there are so many people with fatphobic beliefs in today’s society, it’s time we accept people of all sizes.
Fat Acceptance is the stupidest social justice movement in the history of the world.
Accept fat people for being fat?
No, I will not accept that it’s okay to be an unhealthy mess of a human being with a much higher chance of having physical and health problems.
- Heart disease
- Stroke
- High Blood Pressure
- Diabetes
- Cancer
- Breathing problems
Those are just a few problems linked to being overweight/fat/obese.
Well, there are also thin people with these issues sooooo…..
Being fat doesn’t cause those things. An unhealthy lifestyle does…. which guess what? Fat and thin people alike can both have an unhealthy lifestyle.
Yeah OP, do some research before spouting your unsubstantiated hate.
OP, you are so right, fatphobia and all other hate has more of a place in this world than fat people do. /sarcasm
Life is too short for us not to know each other.
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