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The final shot shows a woman talking around a mouthful of cake, plaintively telling the camera, “Don’t look at me like that.” Is this a PSA for eating disorders? No, it’s meant to remind you, as the legend onscreen says, that “Every snack has its price,” and in this case the price is your self-respect.
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Yes, many people, probably most people, say that disliking your body is a normal part of being a woman. If by “normal” they mean that the majority of women, 80-90%, dislike their bodies, then yes, it is “normal.” The vast majority of women in this culture at this time do dislike their bodies.
But to think that this is normal as in natural, as in necessary, as in a normal function of being alive, is ridiculous. This belief is part of the problem. Since it is so ubiquitous, many women have come to accept that it is just part of being a woman. This is ludicrous! It is settling for what happens to be the situation for many, instead of envisioning the possibilities that are available for all. It is accepting mediocrity instead of creating grandeur. It is maintaining the status quo instead of envisioning the truth.
Source: rawwomen
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People who recover from eating disorders can’t be expected to have higher standards than the rest of society, most of whom would like to alter a body part or two. The difference now is that I’m no longer willing to compromise my health to achieve that. I’m not even willing to compromise my happiness to achieve it, or for the thought of my thighs to take up valuable space in my mind. It’s just not that important.
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Yo-yo is an inaccurate way to describe weight fluctuation. It is not the term anyone would use to describe the highs and lows that were the basis of my self-esteem. Yo-yo sounds frivolous, childish, disrespectful. Yo-yo sounds like a thing outside of yourself that you can just decide to put away and not pick up anymore.
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YOU, FEMALE LIVING PERSON, ARE RESPONSIBLE… …to quit the derogatory usage of “slut” and “whore” and other unsuccessfully reclaimed words. I’m revolted by how many of my friends say “slut” and suchlike to describe females who dress or behave badly; females whom their boyfriends/crushes find attractive; females of whom they’re irrationally jealz. Here’s a recent, true-life usage, as remembered from my BBM: “I was called up on stage to make out with Usher… and then he picked some blonde whore instead.” Ew. Ew ew ew. How old are you, first of all? Old enough to have seen Mean Girls more than once? I’ve got nothin’ Tina Fey hasn’t already said. Learn it.
Part of this was quite problematic, but other parts of it were poignant. Worth a look for the good points.
Source: thegridto.com
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Don’t kid yourself into thinking weight issues are not important. It isn’t a frivolous thing. Fat is still a feminist issue. Weight is not just about our bodies. It’s how we feel about ourselves. It affects every decision we make. The status quo would like you to think of it as a petty, unimportant thing, to make fun of it like it is a ridiculous, female obsession, a weakness. It is one of their greatest weapons. Don’t become a casualty. This war is almost over, and we are going to win.
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No one has any obligation to be healthy. Health is a combination of luck (genetics), choice (what you do), and privilege (what you have access to) and you really can’t tell who is healthy based on how they look. There are health risks to lots of things, like getting in a car, flying, or just walking down the street. Life has health risks.
Source: stophatingyourbody
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Fat people are often supported in hating their bodies, in starving themselves, in engaging in unsafe exercise and in seeking out weight loss by any means necessary. A thin person who does these things is considered mentally ill. A fat person who does these things is redeemed by them. This is why our culture has no concept of a fat person who also has an eating disorder. If you’re fat, it’s not an ED — it’s a lifestyle change.
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Health is not a moral issue. Health does not look the same from person to person. Health is not a bludgeon to be used against other people so we can stick our nose in their choices.
Health is a wildly personal issue, varying from individual to individual. Health encompasses those with chronic illnesses and those with disabilities and those who are, I don’t know, fucking Olympians. I support and promote Health At Every Size because I want people to take care of themselves in whatever way works for THEM but I cannot support a blanket Pro-Health statement. “Health” as it is used in American culture at the moment excludes mental health from the equation and gives people a license to say things like, “well, you know, they eat every meal at McDonald’s” and then feel morally superior.I don’t give a fuck if you eat every meal at McDonalds or if you eat an entirely raw organic local diet or anything in between. I don’t give a fuck if you never get off the couch or if you run marathons or anything in between. You are entitled to basic human dignity. You are entitled to people backing the hell up off of your life and not moralizing about what you put in your mouth - whether you are making food choices and movement choices from an actual place of empowered choice or because of food deserts or because of any other damn thing.
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Fat activists don’t deny that fat can impact health. We deny the conclusions drawn about that. Both about individual health and about personal morality or responsibility. Fat people have unique health concerns that need to be addressed. The issue is that our current system doesn’t do that. It fails the health needs of fat people by insisting on stigmatizing fat and promoting failed treatments that do nothing to address one’s health. They say that fat activists don’t care about the health of fat people, but I say that’s 100% false. We DO care about the health of fat people and that’s why we demand better than futile weight loss dieting. They’ve had decades to enforce their views and its done nothing. We need to stop this and start finding ways to serve fat people’s health needs with respect for their body. Not with an insistence that the body change before you start caring. That’s not the conversation they want to happen, but its what must happen. - Brian
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