#FatShaming

[femsolid]

"The obese—particularly those who claim to be happy although overweight—are perceived as not playing by the rules at all. If the rest of us are struggling to be acceptable and "normal," we cannot allow them to get away with it; they must be put in their place, be humiliated and defeated.

A number of talk shows have made this abundantly clear. On one, much of the audience reaction was given over to disbelief and to the attempt to prove to one obese woman that she was not happy: "I can't believe you don't want to be slim and beautiful, I just can't believe it." "I heard you talk a lot about how you feel good about yourself and you like yourself, but I really think you're kidding yourself." "It's hard for me to believe that Mary Jane is really happy, you don't fit into chairs, it's hard to get through the doorway. My God, on the subway, forget it." When Mary Jane persisted in her assertion that she was happy, she was warned, in a viciously self­righteous tone, that it would not last: "Mary Jane, to be the way you are today, you had better start going on a diet soon, because if you don't you're going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. It's true."

On another show, in an effort to subdue an increasingly hostile and offensive audience one of the doctor­guests kept trying to reassure them that the "fat and happy" target of their attacks did not really mean that she didn't want to lose weight; rather, she was simply tired of trying and failing. This construction allows people to give their sympathy to the obese, assuming as it does the obese person's acknowledgment that to be "normal" is the most desired goal, elusive only because of personal inadequacy. Those who are willing to present themselves as pitiable, in pain, and conscious of their own unattractiveness—often demonstrated, on these shows, by self­admissions about intimate physical difficulties, orgies of self­hate, or descriptions of gross consumption of food, win the sympathy and concern of the audience."

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Susan Bordo

[hussyknee]

[thenixkat]

[id: A page from the Justice League of America comic with four panels featuring Ted Kord, Blue Beetle 2, in his room in the middle of getting dressed in his superhero costume.

Panel 1- Ted Kord, partly dressed in his superhero uniform missing only his cowl and gloves stops and stares at his reflection in shock. His top is grinding up the curve of his gut. Ted: I knew this costume was getting tight--but this is ridiculous! Must've shrunk in the wash or something... yeah, shrunk in the wash. Right. Time t'face facts, Ted-- you've been avoiding this for months and it's finally caught up with you-- --you're a fatty.

Panel 2- Close up of Ted's face as he holds a hand up to his face in horror and disgust. His reflection in the mirror in the background looks at him judgmentally. Ted: All the dysfunctional eating habits of your childhood have come back to haunt you! That fat little boy who's been hiding inside me is back-- and ready to binge! You can't let him get you, Ted. Remember all the jokes in grade school? "Lardo" Kord they called me. Remember in gym, when they said you weren't physically fit... you were physically fat?

Panel 3- Close-up of Ted's hands as he goes through his dresser to look for a top that fits. Ted: Well, I'm not going through that again! Wasn't till I got out of college that I pulled myself together, lost weight. Took some pride in myself. Darn good thing I still got this old college sweatshirt around to cover up the bulge.

Panel 4- Ted pulls on the sweatshirt, his face sad. Ted: Sweatshirt? Heck, it's more like a tent! I can't believe I used to dress like this all the time... oversized clothes to cover up my embarrassing body. I was the only kid on my block who shopped in maternity stores! Yeah, that's it-- joke your way through it like you did then. Maybe if you can make 'em laugh, they won't reject you--

/end id]

ok! I finally found the fucking issue I've been looking 4. Issue 52 of Justice League America.

Did I go through an entire comic run to find this specific issue for horny curiosity? Yes. Could I have just looked up actual porn and had a much easier time? Also yes. But that's not how my brain works. Did it satisfy my curiosity? Yes. Did it satisfy my horny? No, the dude needs therapy, the artists need to learn how to be consistent and also match what the writers are writing. Good fucking lords that was frustrating.

RIP to Ted Kord maybe someday he'll get a writer who'll let him be ok with having some chub. B/c ooo weee the internalized fatphobia, the body dysmorphia, the depression that dude needs to be treated for. Cause like, outside of the binge eating he was doing while depressed and unemployed (and thus also not exercising) which came after this, if someone is doing that much fucking exercising which being a superhero is, and getting chubby from normal eating habits then perhaps yer supposed to be a bit thick my dude? (like we know he diets to have like visible abs, so if not starving himself means he gets a gut then like that's likely the more natural and healthier shape for yer body to be in my guy )

Also like he's fucking * ripped * everywhere but his stomach, stop saying he's out of shape!

[airasora]

I've reached a point where this is how I respond to people like this.

I had the AUDACITY to tell a man who was working out and a woman ruined his shot by walking in front of the camera that it's public space and he can't expect people to cater to his need for internet clout.

Cue me getting 40 comments all saying the same thing: I have clearly never gone to the gym cause, get it, I'm fat so how would I know what that feels like.

It's that exact sentiment over and over again and if the 40th person saying it thinks it still stings for me to read that, they're barking up the wrong tree 😂

[vi-the-deer]

The worst ad to see on @wolfertinger666's blog

[fragwuerdiger-episodenguide]

(040) Die drei ??? und der Automarder

Klappentext

Absicht oder Täuschung? Zersplitterte Autofenster und eine gestohlene Goldmünze sind die einzigen Spuren eines Vandalen, der in Rocky Beach sein Unwesen treibt. Ratlos tappt die Polizei im Dunkeln, während die drei ???? eine Falle stellen. Sie müssen nur aufpassen, dass sie nicht selbst darin gefangen werden, denn der Gegner ist gefährlich. Es ist, als ob jemand ihre Gedanken lesen kann!?

Veröffentlichungshistorie

Buch (Random House): 038, 1984, William Arden, The Mystery of the Smashing Glass Buch (Kosmos): 039, 1987, Leonore Puschert (aus dem Amerikanischen übertragen) Hörspiel (Europa): 040, 1986

⁉️ Allgemein

Handlungsort

Rocky Beach

Kategorie

Diebstahl

Figuren

Justus Jonas

Peter Shaw

Bob Andrews

Titus Jonas

Mr. Jacobs, Vater von Paul

Paul Jacobs, Sohn von Mr. Jacobs

Morton, Chauffeur

Leutnant Samuels

Hauptkommissar Reynolds

Mr. Jarvis Temple

Sarah Temple, Cousine von Willard Temple (😈)

Willard Temple, Neffe von Jarvis Temple

Mr. Margon, Inhaber der Margon Glass Company

William Margon, Sohn von Mr. Margon (😈)

🏖 Rocky Beach Universum

Orte

Vallerio Street 142, Haus von Pauls Freund

Vallerio Street 140, Haus der Temples

Olive Street, Bereich 900

Olive Street, Bereich 700

Olive Street, Bereich 300

Einrichtungen

Schrottplatz

Zentrale

Margon Glass Company

Sonstiges

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🛼 Sonstiges

Lustige Dialoge

Justus: "Wenn ihr Drei mit dem Blödeln fertig seid, könnten wir uns endlich mit dem Fall befassen. Ich schlage vor, dass uns Paul einen zeitlich geordneten Überblick vorlegt." Peter: "Er meint: Du sollst alles von Anfang an erzählen."

Temple: "Lügner! Dir werd ich es zeigen. Hier … hier mein Stock. Samuels: "Nicht!" Peter: "Nehmen Sie den Stock weg!" Bob: "Nicht doch!" Justus: "Nicht schlagen!" Peter: "Hören Sie auf!"

Peter: "Was? Ja dann weißt du also schon viel mehr als wir? Und du stellst immer noch Fragen?!"

Phrasenschwein

Fat shaming Justus wird beleidigt

🏳️‍🌈 Queer/diversity read

Shippy moments

Peter: "Fällt dir eigentlich gar nicht auf, Bob, dass wir beide immer die gefährliche Arbeit übernehmen müssen?" Bob: "Willst du etwa mit den Leuten aus dem Büro reden? Da hat Justus glaub ich das bessere schauspielerische Talent." Peter: "Na ja, dem stimm ich zu."

Peter: "Peter, er hat eine Pistole. Peter, nein, nicht!"

Diversity, Political Correctness and Feminism

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[brettdoesdiscourse]

Just as a reminder, Jonah Hill was at best a controlling asshole and at worst a predator. And he still didn't deserve the years of bodyshaming he received.

Yall are so quick to defend fat people from being bodyshamed when they're good people and so quick to support that exact same behavior for shitty fat people. But it's still fucking wrong.

Make fun of Jonah for being controlling. Make fun of him for being an asshole. His body has 0 to do with the fact he's a bad person.

[gabetheunknown]

oh my god enough enough enough with unhealthy and ridiculous diets, enough with that BMI bullshit still being used by professionals to fatshame you, enough 'FrUiT iS uNhEaLtHy BeCaUsE iT hAs SuGaR', enough lying and bodyshaming in the clothing industry, enough '10 ways for women to lose weight fast' everywhere I fucking look, enough 'but I just want you to be healthy' when you actually mean that they're disgusting, enough with the word 'fat' being an insult, and enough with 'you've lost weight!' being a compliment, it is not a compliment, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you

[afusionoffandoms]

Meanwhile in the notes...

Include men in your body positivity. you are not body positive if you make fun of male pattern baldness, neckbeards, fatness, etc in men. these traits are just as worthy of acceptance regardless of if it's wrapped in pink bows or not.

[my-trashbin]

thinking back to the time one of my childhood friends who grew to lowkey be strange. I was overweight back then and we started talking about being cold or something like that. He then proceeded to say “you should be fine cause you have like blubber”

as a kid i didnt think much about it but i just realized how out of pocket that was

[whotookcheesuschrist]

Pt. 2

Take me, for example. Mom died from cancer, my sister has a near-chronic fatigue, until we somehow as fucking piss-poor Millennials are able to be physically and financially independent of each other, I *have* to make sure that I have a physicality that can take the strain of something like that happening again. And the joint pain I felt after the move, and the loss of mobility and ability I felt before that having at my biggest some 255 pounds on me was real. It's a real benefit that I've lost a lot of weight. If I want to keep improving it is completely possible I should try to gradually lose more weight to move more freely with less strain. I feel some times like I am being like slightly gaslit by someone claiming to try to make me feel better or get angry for shit that does concern me, on my behalf, while doing it for close to the wrong reasons. That doesn't speak for me, and yet they inadvertently claim to.

But of course that discussion is swallowed up by the Get Slim crowd, too. I did have a bit of unusual luck after some morbid curiosity, though. Searched on YouTube for what would pop up if typing in "being fat and athletic". Not one thinkpiece from someone who is. Just an avalanche on influencer-types talking about How To Lose All Your Bodyfat™. There was like one video about how fat folks have a place in baseball that is mishandled by the athletes themselves and the teams pushing them to do something stupid; heavy players hit harder and throw harder which can make them an asset, but people keep pushing them to lose weight for the team's image which kinda ends up making them stress eat and work out more and yoyo-ing up and down. That's it. Except for one single Canadian: Mitchell Hooper, the coziest strongman I ever saw having a completely shameless, level-headed discussion about whether or not and how it pays to be fat within sports. Granted, this was within the confines of strongman weightlifting, but still, it had applicability beyond just that field.

His background before this was being a marathon runner prior to lifting weights. Notice how what he talks about is exclusively regarding function. What your body itself can tell you when it comes to thresholds of comfort and what it needs. And how that in no way necessitates getting rid of all fat to allow you to do things. That it is good to have for the body to move and protect itself safely. In the tidal wave of snake-oil salesmen it was almost astounding to see this pop up. So much so that I actually decided to keep up with him for the future, and I recommend you all look up a few of his videos. You might learn something no matter what kind of person or body you are or what you might some day want to do.

What you take away from this massive-ass post I leave entirely up to you. You don't have to do a thing I say. If exercise is uninteresting to you or not an option for other reasons (lord knows everything costs these days), don't feel guilt or shame. You may feel like telling me to fuck off for bringing this up in any way, you may not. Whatever you do I sincerely hope you all take care of yourself how you feel like and how you need to, whatever that looks like. And I hope that for some of you, this inspires you to be able to keep you chin up and remember that while you may feel a lot of things about yourself and your own fatness, it does in no way have to confine who you are or what you can try to do.

tl;dr, to quote one fabulous tiktoker I've seen around: "Girl, just do it fat."

[myplussizebookshelf]

One of the longest sitting on my reading samples list was Teresa Medeiros 'The Bride and the Beast'.

The heroine is facing fatshaming but she is slutshaming her sisters. It's set in scotland 1761.

Retelling of beauty and the beast with a dragon.

[fragwuerdiger-episodenguide]

(035) Die drei ??? und der Höhlenmensch

Klappentext

Das Skelett eines Urzeitmenschen lockt Justus, Bob und Peter in den kleinen Ort Citrus Grove. Kaum sind sie dort, als es auch schon zu rätselhaften Zwischenfällen kommt. Erwacht der Urmensch zu geheimnisvollem Leben? Und wieso legen sich plötzlich alle Bewohner von Citrus Grove zum Schlafen in den Park … ?

Veröffentlichungshistorie

Buch (Random House): 034, 1982, M. V. Carey, The Mystery of the Wandering Caveman Buch (Kosmos): 034, 1984, Leonore Puschert (aus dem Amerikanischen übertragen) Hörspiel (Europa): 035, 1984

⁉️ Allgemein

Handlungsort

Citrus Grove

Kategorie

Spuk, Betrug

Figuren

Justus Jonas

Peter Shaw

Bob Andrews

Dr. Birkensteen, arbeitet in der Spicer-Stiftung

Eleonor Hess, pflegt Tiere im Spicer-Stiftung

Dr. Teriano/Tereano, arbeitet in der Spicer-Stiftung

Mr. Wolfe, LKW-Fahrer

Ned McGhee, Onkel von Eleonor

Dr. Brandon, arbeitet in der Spicer-Stiftung

Frank DiStefano, Gehilfe von Dr. Brandon (😈)

John

Dr. Elwood Hoffer, arbeitet in der Spicer-Stiftung (😈)

Bürgermeister

Thalia McGee, Frau von Ned McGhee

Sheriff

🏖 Rocky Beach Universum

Orte

Harbor View Lane, scheint in der Nähe vom Schrottplatz zu sein

Sunset Boulevard

Einrichtungen

Gebrauchtwarencenter T. Jonas

Spicer-Stiftung, liegt in Citrus Grove

Citrus Grove, kleine Gemeine im kalifornischem Bergland in der Nähe von San Diego

Sonstiges

Dr. Childers, Narkosearzt, wohnt in der Harbour View Lane und kannte Dr. Birkensteen

🛼 Sonstiges

Lustige Dialoge

DiStefano: "Oppladi-opplada McGee, sie hören das Geld schon im Kasten klingeln, wie?"

DiStefano: "Oppladi-opplada, die drei Freunde sind da."

DiStefano: "Na und? Dabbeldiding-dabbeldidang, der Tag ist noch lang. Wir sehen uns."

DiStefano: "Tritratrum, die Detektive gehen um."

Justus: "Straftaten sind unser Hobby!"

Phrasenschwein

Fat shaming Justus wird beleidigt

🏳️‍🌈 Queer/diversity read

Shippy moments

Peter: "Unverschämter Lümmel!" Bob: "Ein Faulpelz obendrein!" DiStefano: "Wir sehen uns noch." Peter: "Fährt während der Arbeitszeit einfach an den Strand."

Diversity, Political Correctness and Feminism

Z*geuner-John ...

[airasora]

[oasis-nadrama]

I wish we stopped thinking bodyshaming is okay as soon as it targets piles of human garbage. :|

STOP mocking Tate's chin or pubis, Trump's hair or skin colour, etc.

This isn't the win you think it is, and you do NOT need that to attack these assholes.

[lifisalie2904]

Fat-Shaming

I was on Instagram and I was mindlessly scrolling until I stumbled upon a body positivity post. It was a post about a girl showing that Aphrodite had rolls and being curvy is fine. And I realized something.

While I know being curvy is fine and I understand; some people can't do it or their body won't co-operate or they have slow metabolism, so it's fine!

But can we appreciate the fact that there are some many people ACTIVELY putting effort and losing weight and maintaining a fit body. That's how I felt; that being thin and fit isn't valid anymore just because someone said it's ok to be fat (which it is!).

Let's all please learn to appreciate BOTH types of bodies!

Thank you so much for reading♥