fatphobiabusters

[fatphobiabusters]

A mermaid and her aquatic frog

[fatphobiabusters]

Hi! I’m a peds resident and your blog has been a wonderful resource to understand medical fatphobia for my peers and I. As someone who was raised by a mother who almost died because of medical fatphobia, I believe that combating medical fatphobia is one of the most important things that we have to do as young doctors. Hopefully things will get better and no one will suffer like my mom did.

Asks like this from medical students and doctors new to the medical field really help give me hope. I wish more people were like you, and I appreciate you spreading information about medical fatphobia. Your work is going to be incredibly important to the fat liberation movement and any fat patients you have. Thank you for this ask

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

Fashion Drac'!💘💖💗🩷

[fatphobiabusters]

This is your reminder to not say fatphobic shit about Trump. Yes, he's a horrible person. No, that does not mean it's okay to support oppression. And if that isn't enough to sway you, then think about all of the other fat people who have to hear you say BS about Trump's body.

There's a million things you can criticize or joke about Trump. An oppressed body type is not one of them.

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

As long as you breath you can survive. I don't know what the future holds but this isn't the end. You have value, are worth equal rights and the world deserves better than this. I'm mad as hell, and if you feel despair that's okay too. Feel your feelings, cry your tears. But this isn't the end of our fights- whatever they look like.

Do some Self-Care today if you need. Watch a comfort movie. When you're ready there's always the rest of today, always tomorrow. So let's see the next dawn and the next together. I pray that 'hope' and 'anger' become twin flames in your soul that can sustain you through this.

-mod squirrel

[fatphobiabusters]

Any tips on tags to use for fat acceptance / pride that aren't full of fatphobic jerks?

It's difficult to look at any fat-related tag without finding fatphobes, thinspo blogs, and fat fetish content. Sadly, there's not a perfect solution. I wish there was. I will say that you'll probably find more fatphobes in tags like "fat acceptance" than "fat liberation" because fatphobes really don't like the name change. They seem to like the term "fat acceptance" more because that allows them more ways to manipulate the meaning of fat liberation.

You'll probably have your best luck by looking at fat positive blogs that sift through the trash for you and/or looking at fat-related tags while filtering for a lot of terms. If you block/filter for words like "thinspo," "feedee," "fat consequences," etc., then you'll probably (hopefully) avoid a lot of fatphobic stuff. Something to take note of is that I haven't been sifting through fat positive tags for a while and instead have been queuing based on what I happen to find without searching (I don't have the emotional energy for sifting through fat positive tags much anymore). So this blog won't always be the most recent fat positive posts compared to if you do sift through fat positive tags.

If I could ask the Tumblr community to do one thing other than make more fat representation, it would be to actually tag their posts of fat people. Most of the art and such that includes fat people isn't tagged at all with words that make it easy for fat people to find that representation. People will use generic tags like "artists on tumblr" and nothing else. I WISH people would start tagging fat positive stuff so it would be less of a depressing treasure hunt. So, for anybody reading this, please ask the artists you know to both draw fat body types and actually tag those drawings so we can find them.

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

Lovisa Lager at Collina Strada FW 2024

[fatphobiabusters]

[Text: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, BMI is an "inexpensive and easy screening method" that is "strongly correlated" with weight-related medical conditions. But in recent years, BMI has come increasingly under fire with critics denouncing the method as not just unreliable but sexist and racist.]

I am so goddamn tired of people ignoring fatphobia. Fat people have been talking about the problems with BMI for decades and decades. BMI is fatphobic as fuck and does an incredible amount of harm to fat people, and the BMI scale is fatphobic in ways beyond just being "unreliable."

Yet the world only cares when the BMI is sexist and racist. The problems with the BMI scale don't matter until it's about the oppression of other groups that "actually matter."

I'm glad that people are talking about the ways that BMI perpetuates racism and sexism. Simultaneously, people should have cared decades before that was pointed out. People should have cared when it was fat voices being silenced.

This world is so goddamn desperate to sweep fat people's oppression under the rug while allowing mainstream activism movements for everybody else. If you do not give a shit when your fat siblings are being killed by medical fatphobia, then you do not truly give a shit when the topic switches to the groups you actually care about.

It's time to give a fuck about fat people.

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

girl

[fatphobiabusters]

Work in progress. The character is now fully rigged, but I need to do some fine tuning. Currently, the outfit feels a bit too basic, so I’m exploring some new designs to add more personality.

[fatphobiabusters]

Considering you don't know what obese means I'm just going to roll my eyes.

Also 99% of the issues are because surgeons refuse to practice on bigger bodies. Do you think our immune systems don't work? Because that's a different issue from 'being obese'. Bleed too much? Different problem. Ectra. "Its hard" get better? Since when is that an excuse for a doctor?

Isnt it amazing how opening up someone's abdomen, manipulating the stomach and closing it- you see as less invasive than cutting titties off and putting in the drain tube? You hear yourself?

I hope someday you get your head out of your ass and stop blaming weight for shit that's the fault of fatphobia. Our health outcomes are because professionals won't try.

Let me leave yall with this: are we an 'epidemic' and doctors need to get better? or so rare surgeons can't reasonably expect to learn to do procedures on our bodies? Because the health industry doesn't get to have it both ways.

-mod squirrel

They refused to give my dad top surgery bc of his weight, citing risks regarding anasthesia and possible hemorrage. They want him to do a bypass surgery first...... which has exactly the same risks. Because he is fat he has to be punished by mutilation to be allowed to have his top surgery. They are ready to take the risks in order to make him skinny, but refuse the same risks that would make him happy.

If people can't understand how oppressive this is and how it's literally intersectional oppression in my dad's case, idk what to say.

Yeah, it's absolute hypocrisy to be willing to mutilate the healthy organs of fat people for the sake of potential thinness and lifelong chronic health conditions but then put up roadblocks for any surgeries that actually help fat people. I still remember when the NHS decided to save money by comparing fat people to people who smoke and denying fat people surgery until we magically lose weight. It's a horrific world we live in, and not even people who claim to be progressive want to open their eyes to what fat people endure.

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

I've gotten so desensitized to casual fatphobia in a doctors office that most of the time I don't recognize it in the moment, and sometimes not even for a few weeks. I just get a moment of "hey, wait a minute, that was fucked up" out of nowhere.

I recently remembered a moment from about 4 months ago and I'm kind of shocked it was said and it took so long for me to realize it. Last year, I got diagnosed with a type of arthritis that is genetic. I am in constant, debilitating pain. I asked my doctor if I could have a temporary handicap parking permit until we had a treatment sorted, as being on my feet for more than 10ish minutes starts to become excruciating. And he said no. He said "I'd rather see you walking that distance". And like... I know moving my joints is good for my condition, but I haven't been able to go grocery shopping in over a year. If I have to go into the pharmacy and stand in line to get a med? Limping and hunched over by the time I exit the store. And I just can't help but think this wouldn't have been said to someone half my weight.

Anyway, things like this are very frustrating and I really appreciate this blog and that I can send this ask to people I know will Get It, even if the exact situation isn't relatable to everyone. Thank you<3

That truly is just....wild that a doctor knowing your situation would say that to you. I do think if you had been a thin patient of his that he would have responded differently. That's so fucked up. Is there a different way for you to get that parking permit? Or do you have to go through him? The next best option I can think of would be to use one of those scooters, but those aren't at every store, and fat people who use scooters endure so much fatphobia and bigotry. You deserve better medical treatment than a doctor who believes stereotypes and disproved myths.

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

[fatphobiabusters]

illustrations for a novel that never got publshed i did the actual cover art for that novel as well, but i won't show it in case it does ever come back from the book graveyard

[fatphobiabusters]

sorry to rant about this I am just fuming right now and think this blog would get it. Oh my god people are so obsessed with being mean and fatphobic that it is deteriorating their fucking ability to think holy shit. I saw a yt short of a fat woman showing what she eats in a day, and it's like. Normal fucking meals right??? (Not to imply there is a "normal" but like, it's not the "excessive" amounts people expect from fat people) And the comments, which to be fair I shouldn't have checked, were full of people accusing her of secretly eating more than what she showed, that her alleged diet is not enough to make her fat, LIKE GOD DAMN. ITS ALMOST LIKE THERE'S A PLETHORA OF REASON'S SOMEONES BODY COULD BE THE WAY IT IS. ITS SO CLOSE. THEY WERE SO CLOSE TO UNDERSTANDING IT BUT NO, THEY HATED FAT PEOPLE ENOUGH TO LET IT ZOOM OVER THEIR GODDAMN HEADS I AM JUST. SO MAD

They'd rather believe we lie than that they are wrong. they are being obtuse as hell it's so annoying AAAUUUGH

-mod squirrel

[fatphobiabusters]

Hi, do you by any chance know any fat athletes who ski/do wintersports? I got very spontaneously invited to go skiing with some coworkers tomorrow (I've never been before) and when I tried on skiing shoes they didn't really fit/the top couldn't be closed all the way, so I've just been feeling pretty meh about it, even though I know it's not my fault those things are only designed with thin people in mind.

(Totally fair if you don't get to this before tomorrow/doesn't fit the blog/etc)

I feel for you about this. I tend to feel self-conscious in similar situations, especially when there's not much time to mentally prepare for the outing. There's so many ways that fat people aren't included in daily society, like the problem with those ski shoes. I haven't done a lot of research into fat athletes, especially winter fat athletes. The fat athletes I know of are the fat athletes I happen to find while looking at fat positive stuff in general. BUT you're in luck!

lainedubin is a fat ice skater on TikTok. I've posted them a few times to this blog. This is one of their videos. They don't ski, as far as I know, but they have amazing videos of their ice skating. They look so graceful, and I know that their TikTok is welcoming of fellow fat people who want to feel comfortable doing what this ice skater does.

I also did a search of some more fat athletes who do winter sports! This Instagram account seems to post a lot of fat people doing winter sports like skiing:

The account apparently posts to this Instagram now, so both accounts show fat people skiing. Although this seems to be a brand selling plus size winter gear, a lot of their videos I looked at just now are fat positive and encourage fat people to feel comfortable doing winter sports! They show a lot of examples of fat people skiing and snowboarding.

I found that Instagram account while reading this post about skiing while fat. I haven't read the entire post, but what I did read was fat positive. The post includes tips for fat skiers. Tip 3, "Don’t be embarrassed to ask for boots that fit your calves," may or may not be helpful for you. I'm not sure if you already have the skiing shoes and can't switch them for a different pair. If anything, I think tip 5 will help give you confidence:

I felt inadequate the first time I showed up to ski at the resort. I felt that my body size wasn’t designed for skiing and that my lack of knowledge at my age would prevent me from learning how to ski. I felt that others would judge my size and think that skiing isn’t for plus-size people. WRONG! We have a place on that mountain along with everyone else. I changed my mindset and recognized that I had to stop putting limits on myself. I’m not concerned what others think anymore. I just get out there and have fun. I am loving skiing and will continue to do it because I CAN and because I love it. I will continue to take up space on the slopes, and I hope that you will too.

Additionally, we have a tag for posts about fat athletes. I've kind of lost track if the tag is "fat athlete" or "fat athletes," but it's one of the two. This recent post of ours I hope will also give you the confidence to enjoy skiing without thinking about other people.

I'm proud of you for putting yourself out there and allowing yourself to take up space!

-Mod Worthy