#Body Shaming

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[cannibalchicken]

[gayvampyr]

if you guys want to be better allies to fat people you need to get comfortable with the idea of being fat. stop saying things like "fat looks good on other people but on me it's gross". stop treating fat bodies like they're disgusting or lesser than skinny bodies, or acting like there are "good bodies" and "bad bodies". don't limit your respect or decency to fat people based on how their fat is distributed or whether they're attractive to you. stop using other people's fat bodies as a comparison to yours, or as "inspiration" to exercise more or "eat healthier". stop assuming you know anything about fat people or their habits before even speaking to them and making judgements on the assumptions you've made. learn to treat fatness as the neutral state it is. because even if you think your fatphobia is directed toward or limited to only yourself, you still hold onto the core belief that fat bodies are gross, subhuman, and unworthy of love or acceptance, and the fat people around you can hear you when you say things like this. they know how you truly feel, even when you tack on "-but on me" at the end. unlearn these thought patterns and take skinniness off its pedestal.

👁️ skinny people are required to reblog or donate money to me so i can afford a meal and clothing 👁️

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

I say, "Ableism is bad." You say, "Ableists all live in their mom's basements and don't contribute anything to society!"

I say, "Misogyny is bad." You say, "Fuck all men."

I say, "Homophobia is bad." You say, "All religious people should be shot in the streets."

I say, "Racism is bad." You say, "White people are the devil."

I say, "Murder is bad." You say, "I hate any idiotic bitch who disagrees with this."

I say, "Body shaming is bad." You say, "Everyone who disagrees is ugly and has small dick energy."

I say, "Fascism is bad." You say, "Yeah, kill all nazis!"

To which I say: you do not know why ableism, misogyny, homophobia, racism, murder, and body shaming, and fascism are wrong.

Go, go and meditate on why these things are wrong and don't come back until you arrive at the answer.

[rhysofcourse]

do u realize when people talk about dick size they aren't talking about tdick?

do you realize that this is just another example of transmasc erasure and it's still shitty to shame the genitals of anyone regardless? you're telling on yourself anon

[zivazivc]

I was just watching World Tour again. 😏 And was thinking about how the Funk Trolls switch between walking on two legs and four legs. Do you think baby Les ever tried to walk with four legs? Maybe Hed's dad discouraged it or something.

Love all your art and characters. 💕

Do they switch? I don't actually remember that. I kinda thought that half of them walk on two and half of them walk on all fours. But maybe there's a percentage that can do both, kind of like how some people can use both their left and rights hands to write.

But even so, Les isn't shaped enough like a funk troll for walking on fours to be natural for him, and his dad is two-legged too. (Maybe Flea can do it, I never drew his parents but I imagine his funk mom walking on fours.) ...But from how horrible Hed's dad was to him, yeah, I can totally imagine him discouraging something like that. Guy is a rancid piece of shit and he put that kid through so much... :((

[chubbymuffinclub]

curatedbygirls

📸💕👁️‍🗨️ danaecharphotography Through her lens, Danae Chara, aka Lilith, captures not only the beauty of bodies, but also the power of self-love and acceptance. Lilith’s photographs serve as a powerful statement against body-shaming and harmful beauty standards, inspiring a society that celebrates every individual for who they are. ✨

[transfaguette]

especially when it comes to women having facial hair there are a surprising amount of "feminists" who are just offended by the proposition that some women don't see their facial hair as tragic. Their feelings do not matter because every woman with facial hair should just wish it didn't exist and "automatically" separate themselves from whatever insults they use. You literally do not have a feminist argument to stand on with this. It is still body shaming and it is still bad.

[hawkins-batman]

Don't you find it ironic how some ST fans and Bylers were so into boycotting and defaming Noah yet they eat up the content he posts

They don't even know the difference btw Noah and Will content cos they even posted the ones with Jacob and the photo of Noah posing with his trailer

The only post which they did ignore was his selfie with Chloe prob cos it does not fit their "Noah is so ugly and balding" agenda

I just learned about the “Noah is balding” thing and I’m just…

Can people just stop being fucking weird? It’s a really weird thing to say or care about. Like, objectively, he looks great. I don’t know if he’s got a receding hairline, but who cares if he did? Lots of men do. It’s genetics.

What I find really hilarious is that these people know shaming someone for their appearance is wrong:

(Don’t be fat phobic or misgender someone guys. Not sure what was happening with this tweet, or if that was really happening, but let’s be better, k?)

Noah is a real person, too.

Like this person makes fun of Noah’s hair while posting almost entirely pictures of him talking about Will, but doesn’t like their own appearance being attacked. That bothers me more. If you don’t like your appearance being attacked, don’t attack others. It’s simple.

And yes - I do think it’s really weird for accounts (like the screenshotted one) to have wall-to-wall pictures of Noah, all his bts shots, squealing and hopping for Byler content, but they were the same ones telling him to kill himself a few months back when Liam Payne died.

People want to have their cake and eat it, too.

[whatbigotspost]

I’ve never thought about this before but literally as a cis woman you’re told your whole fucking life how bad it is to have “a gut.” Muffin top. Fupa, whatever. Belly fat is the worst most shameful and anti lady like way to carry fat (most lady like = hourglass, bc big ass/hips and tits are great so long as your waist is “snatched” right!???)

And there’s ONE (1, uno, eins) circumstance in which the EXTREMELY LARGE GUT is allowed to be seen on a woman and it looks like this and this alone:

(All of these ripped from my own feeds of people I personally know irl….they’ll just have to forgive me if they ever see this bc my point here is real and it’s not about the individual pregnant people who are celebrating their pregnancies.)

What I’m driving at is if these pictures so cute when someone is pregnant, do I REALLY need to feel like shit just for existing day in, day out?

I’m not even wanting to celebrate my gut. I just wanna be left alone about it.

Everyday for approximately 25 years I felt extreme shame because I am fat and I carry my weight around my mid section aka I have A Gut. If I wear just the “wrong” kind of dress, people have asked me when I’m due* It’s so fucking annoying.

Related to what I wear and how I react, I’ve moved passed caring at this point thank god. But it was HARD getting there.

All I’m really saying here is that the contrast in comments when someone posts a picture like these versus when a fat person is just wearing a crop top, is stark, unnecessary, and upsetting. If we are capable of seeing the beauty in a pregnant person’s radically altered and temporarily distended bodies, I don’t understand why we can’t just let fat people exist day-to-day.

And don’t even get me started here on the layer of this, which is all kinds of misogyny, about how motherhood is the ultimate peak thing a woman could accomplish… until you are a woman who actually does become a mother. The moment that baby is born, you are cast to the side and discarded. No longer your own person and no longer worth marveling at.

Now that I’m on a tear about it, of course I’m aware of the impacts of white supremacy and transphobia afoot as well. It’s all always connected.

[kouhaiofcolor]

Gonna just go ahead and say it but body shaming seems like a concept expertly exacerbated by mothers. Like it’s so weird how creatively moms will subject their daughters to this kind of thing for years on end or from such a young age to begin with — just to have the gall to question or lament why said daughters aren’t particularly fond of them as adults 😕

Does your daughter have a good reason to like you? Did you raise her delicately? Did you esteem her about the way she looks naturally? Or might you warping her image of herself have something to do w why you’re not one of her favorite people? Like I know it’s fuck men, but also? Fuck women, too. We definitely have both a potential and tendency to be some of the earliest bullies toward our daughters — and I really, really feel like mothers should do some inner reflection and self evaluating on this. Because the consistencies among mothers who don’t find this wrong, is disgusting.

If you can casually reduce your daughter to nothing through how you criticize her body in negative connotation constantly, she has no reason to like you. The history of your interactions speak for themselves. You’re a bully. Esp if you’ve made such a hideous, thoughtless “habit” of doing it throughout her life. That should be fucking obvious. Stop being fucking weird.

[thebad-lydrawn-sanses]

Nightmare, how do you deal with all those kitties

Nightmare: by calling them mean names because they don't understand anyway

Nightmare: speaking of demeaning nicknames, this fat little shit won't stay on the scale- the vet needs to know how much you weigh, Killer

Vet: this is unprofessional but can i please pet your cat

[rjalker]

when will people learn that you can in fact support trans people who want surgery without shaming and degrading people who don't, and vise versa. There is no limit to how many kinds of trans people you can support. You are in fact morally obligated to support all kinds of trans people. If you think it's okay to body shame the kinds of people you're not personally sexually attracted to, you are simply a bad person.

[crippled-peeper]

the difference between a superficial surgical scar and a self harm scar is actually slim to none and you often can’t tell a scar is self-harm or not just by looking at it. like. the separating of scars into different camps of “self inflicted” and “not self inflicted” as a way to moralize them will never work because you cannot tell

I have a throat scar from a disc replacement surgery but people do sometimes assume it’s from a suicide attempt due to my history

It doesn’t matter what it is. It’s my body and I can’t shapeshift. whether I survived doing it to myself or needed it to live is absolutely irrelevant. leave scarred people alone

[transfaguette]

nobody should feel bad about their body, ever, but man. thin people have to understand how easier literally everything is when you are thin (in our culture at least). One of my core memories as a young child was watching disney channel shows and thinking “i wanna be an actor on this show” and then immediately thinking about how they would never cast someone who looked like me, and if they did, it would be to be a punchline. I was maybe, 9?? When you interact with people you don’t have this constant negative debuff, you don’t have to prove you have worth as a human being despite your appearance. and im not saying this is exclusive to being fat, but no matter how else you are marginalized, being thin helps prove you are “one of the good ones.” i don’t want anyone to feel bad about their body or feel like their own bodily insecurities or experiences with bodyshaming are dismissed, but just understand the staggering scope of fat oppression. being thin makes everything easier.

[rapeculturerealities]

(5) Large study shows high BMI not associated with serious top-surgery complications

A group of researchers at Johns Hopkins published a study on November 1 (Hassan et al, Association of High Body Mass Index With Postoperative Complications After Chest Masculinization Surgery) that looks at complication rates in transgender and nonbinary patients undergoing chest masculinization surgery (often called top surgery).

The conclusion was that “Chest masculinization surgery [CMS] remains a safe option for TGNB patients and may be safe to perform in patients with higher BMI.