#Body size

[incognitopolls]

Neither word here is meant negatively; this is mainly asking if people think "fat" and "chubby" connote different things in terms of body size or shape, and/or how a person is treated by others.

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[moonfirebrides]

Fearing The Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Dr Sabrina Strings "Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia" is a groundbreaking book by Dr. Sabrina Strings that explores the intersections of race, body size, and society. Dr. Strings, a sociologist and professor at the University of California, Irvine, delves into the historical origins of fat phobia and its ties to racism, colonialism, and slavery.

[3liza]

this is not a complaint it's just funny but being skinny is so stupid because you literally just have hard surfaces sticking out everywhere and they actually hurt when they contact furnitures, walls, and clothing. sitting on stuff hurts, leaning on stuff hurts, elastic hurts, socks hurt. it's one of the ways you can tell you're getting too underweight and need to pay attention when you have ongoing weight balance issues is when you're noticing the little pressure points that come up suddenly. I'm sitting on a metal bench rn and it's like trying to set a cup down on a corrugated metal roof

[biology-geology-beaches-india]

The Science Research Manuscripts of S. Sunkavally. Page 282.

[epictensai]

This post is about body positivity. It doesn’t matter how big, small, or medium you are, you are perfect and amazing! Me and my partner have been going through stuff with our bodies (I’m underweight) but it doesn’t mean that we can’t find each other beautiful. Please don’t force yourself to eat/starve. Eating disorders are not your friend. There’s many healthier ways to achieve the body that you’d always dreamed of, and they all cost dedication and effort. Never give up, never resort to something harmful. Life is short and expensive, take care of yourself and enjoy your life.

[ladyy--lazarus]

I am a naturally small person. I'm 5 foot 1. The women in my family are all much bigger in height and weight. I've never shamed them for how they look. I don't care because I love them, and I'm not judgemental that way. I judge character and behaviors.

Now, on the other hand, they have commented on my size my entire life and infantilzed me to this day. It still bothers me sometimes because I realize they don't see me as a full person whom they respect. They're projecting their insecurities onto me.

Why is it socially acceptable to ask/tell a small person, "Wow, you're so tiny! Are you anorexic? You need to eat a cheeseburger and put some meat on your bones!" I would never say, "Wow, you're sooo fat! You need to not eat," blah blah blah because that's fucked up. So, why is the former not seen as the same body shaming mentality?

[murosakiiro]

You are so right for this.

Everyone is so confused why I prefer to be "fat".

I find fat bodies beautiful. They are sexy. They're hot. I love everything about it. I never felt handsome, beautiful or sexy skinny.

I'm healthy and that's all that matters.

I love being fat.

Everyone wanted to be thicc but nobody wanted to be fat. Everyone wanted the dad bod but nobody wanted to be fat. Everyone wants fat mommy milkers but nobody wants mommy to be fat. Everyone wants to be a bear but not like, an actual fat bear. You get what i’m saying

[crewdlydrawn]

#just to tag on #women who diet heavily and then have kids #are more likely to have fat kids #and fat grandkids #because they've created famine conditions in their body #that mean the next generations of their family will have predisposition to hold weight #to survive the imaginary famine #which is also why poor people can often be much fatter #and on another side of that #many “fat related health issues” just don't affect certain groups of people #so there's no consistent link across any study #that validly can claim that these issues are created from being fat #i listen to a lot of common misconception myth busting research based podcasts

People say weight loss is for sure possible...but no one agrees on how to do it.

Dieting works...but there's now an "ob*sity epidemic" despite people lining the pockets of weight loss corporations more than ever.

Weight loss products work...but weight loss corporations are making the Exact. Same. Claims. about their products that they did in 1910 with the products that were sold and then discontinued over a century ago.

Humans are all meant to be thin...but there are families of fat people who stay fat no matter how much "willpower" they muster and have fat ancestors going back generations.

It's about health and not looks...but people who are losing weight due to smoking, cancer, illness, mental disorders, and other health conditions are praised for their weight loss and told to keep going.

Fat people aren't oppressed...but fat people have no positive representation, no proper access to clothing, face a wage gap, endure deadly medical neglect and abuse, have their deaths by police brutality excused with their fatness, and countless other aspects of oppression that they deal with every single day.

Fat people are all fat because they overeat...but you can point to any fat person on the sidewalk and there's an extreme likelihood that they're on their 30th diet attempt in the past 10 years while there's thin people who eat whatever they want, however much they want, and don't exercise yet never gain a single pound.

Fat people are privileged because they gorge on unnecessary food...but fat people are overwhelmingly living in poverty, are not paid the same amount of money for the same work as their thin peers, are not chosen for promotions, are turned away from jobs that an employer wants more than a "pretty face" for, are at major risk of workplace harassment, and endure oppression even beyond just that.

Fat people aren't treated badly...but people use the word "fat" as a metaphor and synonym for "ugly," "unlovable," and "unworthy," while at the same time believing "fat," the most basic term for a specific body type, is a dirty, taboo insult you should never allow to leave your lips.

Professionals agree that fatness is inherently bad...but almost any weight-related research study that people, especially weight loss corporations, use to justify demonizing fat people has the worst methodology imaginable with validity errors and logical fallacies galore as well as conflicts of interest due to how many of these studies just happen to be funded by the corporations that make millions and billions of dollars off of the demonization these studies promote.

All health conditions a fat person has are caused by their fatness...but there is not a single health condition that only fat people obtain, many fat people developed the health condition in question when they were thin or thinner, weight gain is often a symptom of said health conditions, fat people are not given the same amount or quality of healthcare as thin people, and repeated starvation attempts (also known as "yo-yo dieting") have been shown to worsen a person's health.

Fat people can't have eating disorders...but fat people are the group encouraged to partake in disordered eating by this fatphobic world the most and then are not given any support to recover.

Thin privilege doesn't exist...but thin people who see the way fat people are treated in society do their absolute damndest and take whatever drastic measures they have to in order to prevent themselves from ever becoming one of "Them."

Fit and fat are mutually exclusive...but there are fat athletes as far up as even the Olympics, and sports are intentionally made inaccessible to fat people to the point of fat children even being turned away when trying to join a sports team.

Fat people are ugly...but all we grow up ever seeing in media are thin, conventionally attractive people painted with layers of makeup next to fat characters who were intentionally designed with an ill-fitting outfit, matted hair, and all other traits that fit the "ugly" stereotype that the character designer could manage to slap onto a single person.

Fat people are big, bad bullies...but studies show that weight is the number one excuse that children use to bully their peers, outcompeting a multitude of other oppressed identities considered.

Fat women are just men and vice versa...but sometimes they're androgynous, and sometimes they're basically nonbinary, and sometimes they're just things, and sometimes they're nothing at all depending on what labels a fatphobe decides will hurt a fat person most that day.

Fat people are subhuman...but fat people deserve the same love, respect, compassion, and support that all people are born inherently deserving.

Fatphobia isn't real, but—

-Mod Worthy

[grrlscientist]

How Small Can You Get? Another New-To-Science Flea-Toad Wows Scientists

"The smallest vertebrates so far discovered are the flea-toads, which live at the limit for how small any vertebrate can possibly get."

by @grrlscientist via medium

[biology-geology-beaches-india]

The Science Diaries of S. Sunkavally. Page 262.

[lovertm]

back tattoo by tattedbysyd

[lazylittledragon]

got shadowlach on the brain again

[andreabaideas]

Those who tells you shit about your body size are "idiot sized" and I fear thats chronic