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i am so tired of that stupid quote

i am so tired of that stupid quote:

lyricrahyne:

i think there is a bias among many people who support the”big is beautiful” look about the thin aesthetic, mainly that they disapprove of people who strive to be thin because that’s what they find appealing. i understand and accept the movement of the fat acceptance community, but i don’t agree with a lot of the things that are promoted and said by the members of this community. 

people do not always want to be thin because society tells them to that they have to be thin to be beautiful. there is an aesthetic to the waif look, the elegant and ghost-like image of a young girl whose bones are visable, who wear soft colors, and who generally looks like the image we associate with magazine covers, high fashion, and diet frenzied youth. 

being underweight carries the same sort of baggage as being overweight. thin women are often called anorexic when they are not and it seems that especially the fat acceptance community is quick to say that it is society that is making the girl see herself as needing to be this way, when many people naturally find the thin look to be appealing. many people choose to be overweight and champion for big bodies, thick legs, heavy breasts and protruding stomachs, which have an appeal of their own as does the childish build of someone who is underweight. the fat acceptance movement is riddled with the same sort of misguided information as the ED community. the focus is on the body.

if a woman decided she wanted to gain weight and began to consume more calories to achieve a more plump and round figure, would you have the same anger and disgust at their change in diet? it is unhealthy to eat too much, and it is unhealthy to eat too little. being overweight and being underweight both have health risks, and both have aesthetic appeal.

maybe i just don’t understand this sort of activism of trying to convince other people to agree with you about your personal taste, but there is the same kind of negativity from the fat community towards skinny women as there is from skinny woman to fat women. it’s about personal taste, mindset, and values. if you value being thin, and eat less to achieve this piece of mind about your body, how is this any different from being considered morbidly obese and not trying to lose any weight? 

Just to clarify, the two pieces of writing that you are responding to were not written by women who are in the fat acceptance movement. I reblogged this because I thought it was interesting.

“Gaining” (intentionally) and having an eating disorder are two distinctly different things. Most size activists do not condone gaining, but at the same time afford individuals who participate in gaining the same respect that they would afford a regular person (whoever a regular person is!), a fat person, and a person with an eating disorder. It’s not really people who should have fingers pointed at them. It’s our culture.

It’s not my job, or anyone’s job, to police diets. When I write “diets”, I mean “what we eat to nourish us”, not “what we don’t eat or eat too much of”. No matter HOW people eat, they deserve to be treated respectfully. Size is NOT an indicator of health, and your last sentence completely undermines any support you’ve shown for Fat Acceptance. Some people are Morbidly Obesely FAT and eat well and exercise and CAN NOT lose weight. Just like some people are underweight and can’t put ON weight. And if we flip the coin, of course there are human beings who are skinny, average sized and fat who are unhealthy too. We all deserve to be treated respectfully, and not to have people prying into our personal health lives. You just don’t know anything about someone’s health life from looking at them.


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