adorianmode: “A person wearing a size 14 calling themselves fat is not the same as a person wearing...

adorianmode:

“A person wearing a size 14 calling themselves fat is not the same as a person wearing a size 4 calling themselves fat. They are very different and very loaded cultural phenomenon. Basically, they may not look fat to you but the cateogry of fat people known as inbetweenies counts as fat. Similarly: NOT ALL FAT EXPERIENCE IS THE SAME. I repeat, in slightly different language: The idea that fat is fat is fat is deeply and disgustingly untrue. The experience of a smaller fatty is not the same as the experience of a larger fatty is not the same as the experience of a fatty who is larger than that. Discussing these differences is not an attempt to create a hierarchy of fat and it is not a statement on who “counts” as fat. It is a fact: sizes stop. There is a difference between not being able to find anything that fits you well and not even having the option of ill-fitting clothing period. That does not mean the first situation is fantastic and wonderful. In fact, it’s pretty shitty to shop for clothes if you fall between straight and plus sizes. It is also shitty, in entirely different ways, to not be able to shop for clothes at all because retailers do not acknowledge your existence in even the most arbitrary and passing ways.”

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- The wonderful Marianne Kirby/theRotund from her post “Smaller Fats and Larger Fats: Once More Round the Mulberry Bush.”

I think that this quote is extremely relevant to what’s being discussed here at FYFP right now. We would never ever ever want to invalidate someone’s desire to self-identify as fat and we are absolutely not trying to police anyone’s body or choices, but we really believe that not all fat experience is the same (which is not a bad thing!). We are staunchly body positive - we love all bodies and we want y’all to love all bodies too - but FYFP was created to focus on the experiences of people whose voices and bodies are most often ignored: larger fats.

(via fuckyeahfatpositive)

I… forgot I had written that. So I was all FUCK YEAH as I read it. And then I was super embarrassed when I got to the attribution. *laugh*

(via therotund)

Marianne is so consistently great that she can’t even remember how great she is.