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Anti-fatness has always been about white supremacy.

The ideal thin body was constructed as a marker of whiteness and “purity” before any of this was ever made to be about health. Dr. Sabrina Strings has spent her career studying this history. In her book, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, Dr. Strings discusses how constructions of race led to the thin ideal.

“Over the decades, the rise in biracial children would break down the way that slave owners saw Blackness and whiteness. To combat the hypocrisy they created, owners invented new ways to dehumanize the enslaved population. They made a calculated decision to start putting more value on white physiques versus Black ones. In her research, Strings found that Black women’s bodies were otherized even more than Black males. For colonizers who hadn’t seen diverse body types before, they quickly categorized the Black female figure as ‘deviant,’ ‘greedy,’ and ‘overtly sexual.’ The fact that we still use these terms to describe fat bodies today is all the evidence we need to understand that fatphobia is directly linked to racism, not health. This mindset was also strengthened by Protestantism. Slave owners looked for any way to prove their power over the enslaved people, and they frequently used religion as ‘proof’ of their racist superiority. Additionally, Protestant belief encouraged various ways to become closer to God, which included eating as little as possible. This would resonate the most with white women. They had as much to do with perpetuating fatphobia as their husbands. White women were desperate to show their own power against Black women on the plantation, and the difference between their bodies was the perfect rift. And so began the centuries-old belief that thinness is beautiful, and fatness is ugly” (Sassenrath, 2023).

The BMI was created in the 1800s by a statistician named Adolphe Quetelet, who did not study medicine, to gather statistics of the average height and weight of specifically white, European, upper-middle-class men to assist the government in allocating resources. It was never intended as a measure of individual body fat, build, or health (Karasu, 2016). Quetelet is also credited with founding the field of anthropometry, including the racist pseudoscience of phrenology. Quetelet’s L’homme Moyen would be used as a measurement of fitness to inspire, and as a scientific justification, for eugenics (Eugenics archive).

Now Trump is launching a new private health AI tracking system to "help the nation lose weight."

"Your body belongs to the nation! Your body belongs to the Führer! You have the duty to be healthy! Food is not a private matter!"

These were Nazi slogans (referenced in The Nazi War on Cancer, Robert N. Proctor, p 120).

If you want to fight against fascism, you must get behind fat liberation.

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the language of "cuteness" is so tied to being small and petite and feminine, i think it's kinda fun to apply it to someone who is overwhelmingly fat. describing someone as having a "cute little belly" when they could easily crush your body with their gut and hospitalize you is actually awesome

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Sorry I haven’t been very active here lately, things are busy with my new role and trying at work as a dog trainer. I promise I’m still alive and wanting to do things.

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getting really into SPOOKY weight gain in my thoughts lately lol. like give me a shady vampire CEO using spooky vampire powers to make his office into plump little blood bags all under his thrall. or like give me a sentient smart home or some shit meant to optimize its human user’s diet/habits but some kind of bug or internal logic error slips through that becomes the human user’s very fattening downfall. Idk man

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*delirious with lust from watching fingers sink into skin* ggod you’re so fuckin fat

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Donuts during sex? Yes. Yes, indeed.

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On anon or not, tell me what YOUR headcanons for my muse are.

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We have to make you nice and round and tasty

Also I’m ordering IHOP.

So uh. Imagine my surprise when I learned I could get one meal and then another one for free wit the special.

…Yes I’m eating like a hog recently shush.

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Wide Wednesday

Waistline, hips, inflation, gaining…

Ask my muses or the mun questions about a topic relating to their size today!

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Patreon Request- Blake (rwby), for patron Magnus Canis

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As someone who has gotten many comms from him…

…I can confirm

man superspoe just amazing

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Who remembers my mobility test video??