#Mod worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

Yes, that's another trope I hate. Fat people, especially in anime, are drawn in a completely different art style from everybody else, as if the fat character is in an entire other universe. Oftentimes, as the previous user mentioned, the fat character will be drawn with tiny eyes and no facial features whatsoever like a fucking cartoony caricature.

Respect fat people enough to draw us, and respect us enough to draw us like fellow human beings who have worth.

-Mod Worthy

One of my pet peeves with how people draw fat characters is when they use this type of mouth to denote who's fat:

The curved cheek I'm assuming (extremely optimistically) is supposed to show fatter facial features, like bigger cheeks. But instead of that type of mouth having that effect, all it does is make the fat character look like they always have food in their mouth and are perpetually eating because that round edge to a mouth is most often drawn when a cartoon depicts characters eating food.

Compare how Naruto is drawn here while eating:

To how Naruto is drawn while not eating:

That mouth type is also usually a lazy attempt at drawing fat people, which you can even see with the two examples above of The Owl House and Pokemon. (Willow especially is a lazy attempt at drawing fatness. Some people still don't even know to this day that she was a half-assed attempt at having a single main fat character in The Owl House because that is how thin she looks. She's so barely fat that I'm close to calling her "fat-coded" instead, which I didn't even know was something possible to draw. Great job. /s You can only tell she's "fat" when she's put next to the stick thin characters, and that was intentional. After all, what better way to only just barely have fat representation in your show than to do the drawing equivalent of a magician saying "Now you see me...now you don't!" And the added insult to injury with how the show's creators made her thin at the end of the series is just cruel.)

Don't half-ass fat representation, don't draw fat people as walking fat stereotypes, and please don't use that mouth type for portraying fatness. Allow us some actual humanity during the few times you'll ever care enough to draw fat people.

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

my moms been fat all her life and lately I've been reading up more on fatlib. I wanna help her get more comfortable and confident but I also feel kinda awkward bringing it up with her being my mom. this also prolly isn't worded the most elegantly bc its like 4 am. I mostly wanna help her to unlearn fatphobic mindsets

This can be difficult to achieve, particularly if you're not also fat (I can't tell from this ask). I appreciate you wanting to address the topic gently. It may be helpful to rely on resources that already explain for you, especially resources that are accessible for people who aren't well-versed in the topic of fat liberation. One method you could try is telling your mom "Hey, I started listening to an interesting podcast that debunks some of the stuff in the wellness industry. I definitely recommend it." If she sounds interested, then you can give her the resource Maintenance Phase, a very helpful podcast that often discusses fat liberation. I also suggest setting your expectations not too high. It's not possible to forcibly change a person's mind. She'll have to choose if she wants to listen and if she's ready for such a major change in mindset. If she's not receptive, it's still possible that maybe she'll be ready in the future. Allowing yourself to try to bring up the topic but also be understanding if she doesn't want to listen will ultimately help your well-being in the long run. Focusing on changing a person who doesn't want to change can be mentally and emotionally exhausting. So, if she isn't receptive, it isn't your fault. I wish you luck though. -Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

Fat people deserve to love ourselves and be confident as fuck.

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

I hate how this still does the fatphobic rhetoric of "fat = ugly, bad, worthless." This is one of the only pieces of media that shows some of the oppression and actual experiences of fat people, yet even this show isn't free of bigotry against fat bodies. It also makes no sense that this would help her because, whether or not she was thin as a child, she's fat now. How does equating fatness to anything and everything bad in the world help a fat teenager love themself?

So much of the "fat positivity" I have come across in the past decade isn't fat positivity at all. It's "I'm sorry for being fat! I know I'm ugly and worthless and bad and not good enough. I'm sorry! I admit that I'm horrible for being fat, but I'm going to try to love myself despite how horrible my fatness makes me! I'm also not going to address anything except self love and body image because I understand that acknowledging how immensely oppressed fat people are is just too radical. Did I mention how ugly and worthless I am? Sorry! I hope it's okay if I don't hate myself for having a million trillion flaws anymore? Can I get a poll in the chat on whether that's okay?"

This is why I hate what has become of the body positivity movement. It's just a movement for thin people to reassure each other they're still thin and pretty while forcing us fat people to bend over backwards so that we hate ourselves slightly less but still constantly apologize for not being thin. I'm done with such a pitiful attempt at fat positivity. I don't need to apologize for being fat. I don't need to pretend my biggest problem is just body image.

Fat people deserve actual liberation. Not just acceptance. Not tolerance. Not begrudging silence about our fatness.

It's time to acknowledge that fat people are good and meant to be on this earth.

-Mod Worthy

I want you to imagine a ten year old version of yourself sitting right there on this couch. Now this is the little girl who first believed that she was fat, and ugly, and an embarrassment.

[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]

That person the other day who said they love seeing photos of thin people holding up 3XL jeans to show all of the "hard work" they put into living "the life they want," there's so much I could say about that.

I could explain that any fat person you see has almost certainly put in that same amount of "hard work" to become thin and then watched as their body refused to stay that way.

I could explain basic, unbiased weight science proving that weight loss is only temporary for the 4 millionth time.

I could explain that fat people are human beings who deserve to be treated with dignity, respect, and humanity, again for the 4 millionth time.

I could explain and explain and explain, but I'm tired of explaining to people who don't listen and pull their views out of their ass. So instead, I think we should applaud photos of fat people holding up the jeans they temporarily wore as a thin person.

Let's celebrate the fat people who once were a size small. Let fat people hold up their old tiny jeans in celebration of:

Beating an eating disorder

No longer experiencing food insecurity

Recovering from an illness that had caused weight loss

Accepting their fat body instead of abusing themself to become thin again

Leaving an abusive family/living situation where they were starved and/or forced to conform to prevent abuse

Having the genes of ancestors who survived famines

Knowing that there is not a single scientifically-proven method of weight loss

No longer wasting time fighting their body's weight gain from health conditions that cause weight gain, like PCOS

Accepting their body that changed due to pregnancy

Accepting their body that changed due to puberty

Accepting their body that changed due to transitioning

Allowing themself to take the medicine they need to treat mental or physical illness no matter the weight gain side effects

Not listening to harassment from bullies, friends, family, or anyone else who demanded they be thin to deserve peace from mistreatment

Literally just getting older and having a body that has changed with time

Loving themself despite the entire world believing that fat people do not deserve love

Existing, because fat people do not need to justify their body and existence to anyone

And so much more

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

This is for every fat person who has worn jackets like unbearable armor during the summer heat

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

Women are just as fatphobic as men, and any fat person can tell you that.

Nonbinary people are just as fatphobic as men. Femme people, masc people, androgynous people are all just as fatphobic. Every group on this planet plays a part in fatphobia. Fatphobic thin women abso-fucking-lutely are just as afraid of their date being fat as fatphobic thin men are.

Don't pretend fatphobia is solely done by anyone who identifies as a man, and don't use fat people as your prop when you don't actually give a shit about us. Talk about sexism without believing us Fatties are a tool for you to use and then throw away. If you don't give a fuck about fatphobia at any other time than when our oppression benefits your "argument," then you're no better than the fatphobic men you're talking about.

Signed,

A fat, bisexual, nonbinary woman who is done with your bullshit

-Mod Worthy

“Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat.”

—

When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.

It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.” (via tealeafprincess)

[fatphobiabusters]

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

[mroddmod]

bro u gotta stop fuckin looking at me like that

[fatphobiabusters]

It says a lot about society that a beach towel that actually fits me is labeled "oversized" on the packaging so that thin people can know which of a select few beach towels will make them feel all warm and cozy and small.

I already buy beach towels to dry myself off with because it's easier than looking for bath towels that fit me, so labeling a beach towel "oversized" because this world is made solely for thin people is just added cruelty. I've been using beach towels to dry myself off with even when I was in the low 200s weight range.

What's fucking wild is that 99.999999% of thin people are blissfully ignorant of what the world is like for fat people. They have no clue what it's like to have to check the weight capacity of a chair on a website before buying it or seeing everything that's the perfect size for you being labeled "oversized." They don't know what it's like not being able to find clothes that fit you at a regular store, thrift store, online store, or even those plus size stores that only go up to a 3XL and just resize thin people clothing.

They don't know what it's like being thankful to learn online that Plan B doesn't work for most fat people before you bought and assumed in a post-roe world that Plan B will be effective. They don't know what it's like to live in a world where everyone freely hates and discriminates against you without even having backlash from progressives and people who claim to support equality, because oppressing you is just accepted fact even to the people who fight for the rights of all of your other oppressed identities. They don't know what it's like to live in a world where hating you is so expected and normalized that it's ingrained into your own people to the point that you literally cannot trust that

anyone you meet

not a single person

who looks like you will share solidarity.

None.

Whenever a thin person suddenly becomes fat, that is the closest we have to a person realizing they've been living in the Matrix. The most intense epiphany you'll ever have is rapidly becoming fat and then seeing how this world changes for you almost overnight.

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

The feeling this post gives me as a fat person whose body has been intentionally erased by thin people from art, history, culture, and humanity

That's me

That fat horse looking back through the ages and seeing themself within the art of the very first human beings

That fat horse seeing themself as having always belonged from the beginning

That's me

That's me.

-Mod Worthy

that's me

[fatphobiabusters]

As unhealthy as you perceive any food to be, it is much more unhealthy to be scared of the act of eating.

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

I should have never looked at the comment section.

Fatphobes love to say this BS about any poor fat person. You can't go to a food pantry without some fatphobe thinking "Well, somebody should lay off the food stamps 😏🤭"

People will seriously not know anything about actual weight and nutrition science yet still think they're the smart ones while making bigoted comments about an oppressed group.

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

-Mod Worthy