#Research is fatphobic

[tobeabatman]

I’d just like to remind you that yes, it’s okay to question and reject obviously biased and badly conducted research on fat bodies.

You’re not a science denier for not liking research when its purpose is not to help you, but to make you seem inferior.

If we go 100 years back, all research on POC and women was conducted through a lense of bias. Research on fat people was similarly biased back then, but hasn’t changed for the better since.

And as you wouldn’t blame women claiming sexist research as biased and faulty, you shouldn’t blame fat people for pointing out fatphobia in research and claiming such research as biased and faulty.

Toodles!

[adhderall]

it Kills me that nobody can be normal about fat people or weight gain. it's either "lmao fatty it's your fault for not being disciplined enough uwu simply stop eating too much its easy if youre not a pig" or "omg yassss queen its sooo good to eat as much as you want whenever you want. if anyone tells you that being 500 lbs is unhealthy theyre FATPHOBIC! AND IF YOU'Re not ok with gaining more weight always youre fatphobic!!!1" like can you all get normal or kill yourselves.

[1960z]

the subtextual fatphobia in how this case treats norma deplume is pretty uncomfortable. like they never actually SAY anything about her weight, but they make jokes like how her picture in her books looks “different” and have phoenix be disgusted by like. getting an eyeful of her cleavage during her breakdown. (they literally use his head in hands pose for that like ffs)

and I’m not saying outright fatphobia would be better or anything but this not saying the quiet part out loud thing creates a very specific type of discomfort where they’re making all these jokes at her expense vaguely relating to her appearance and they want you to fill in why. it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

[heathenkweer]

Had a doctor's appointment this morning, will hopefully officially get diagnosed with POTS ✌🏻

[siristaci]

Nothing quite beats that feeling when the comments section of a 'controversial' facebook post passes the vibe check. Especially when the page that posted it is clearly run by bigots.

[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

[heavycreamy]

Hey Matt Gazy

This post is for Australian Journalist Matt Gazy.

Apparently you've been contacting members of our feedism/erotic weight gain community in order to discuss our very multifaceted, heavily misrepresented lifestyle.

As someone who has been in this community for 3 decades, has seen most if not all of its forms, understands the ethical connections between Feedism and Fat Liberation, and deeply cares about how folks in our community are represented to the general vanilla public, I hope that you are entering into this project/article/episode with the necessary due respect, empathy, intelligence, and kindness that you would bring to ANY oft-misunderstood and ridiculed subculture.

No one needs another sensationalist piece of journalism wilfully and lazily misrepresentating our community, sexuality, and lifestyle, which only EVER serves to further stigmatise and shame us.

We have been taken advantage of on many occasions, cast as freaks and pathetic fools with mental problems, so neither we nor the general public need more of that.

EVERY time a piece about feedism appears in the public eye, our community experiences a massive wave of trolls and judgemental, deeply fatphobic tourists coming into our online spaces and abusing us.

Please don't debase us nor yourself by making a surface level hit-piece on our community, whether intentionally or unintentionally, due to a lack of thorough research and basic respect for perspectives and life experiences outside the norm.

Feedism is INFINITELY more than simply heteronormative power play. That corner of the community represents less than 10% of what actual contemporary Feedism culture is, and ironically harbours 90% of the toxicity present in the entire culture.

Feedism is so much more than heteronormative, coercive power play. It is extremely queer, extremely feminist, extremely sensual and emotional, and is a major facet of many people's lives and psychologies.

While it may seem like simply a niche genre of porn to the casual tourist, Feedism exists outside of porn. It exists outside of kink. It exists outside of fetish. It can and should be considered an orientation, rather than simply a freaky outlier bedroom interest worthy only of reactive disgust.

Please don't be yet another unscrupulous journalist exploiting our incredibly vulnerable community for shock bait bullshit.

If you're going to try to represent us, do it comprehensively, and do it PROPERLY.

Truly speak to us. Do the work. Don't just find an extremely popular female model and falsely imagine that her experience is a stand in for ALL Feedist experiences.

If you truly want to represent Feedism, you NEED to represent it as the complex, multifaceted diaspora that it is, full of people of all kinds, all cultures, and ALL SIZES.

Should you be committed to pursuing this topic, I can offer links and connections to extremely well informed writers, thinkers, professors, and others within this community who are doing INCREDIBLE work on understanding, exploring, and expressing the deeper truths of this desire and lifestyle. There are people doing the work. You need to do it too.

We're humans. Treat us with respect, dignity, and kind curiosity.

Be better than every journalist who has come before you.

Thank you.

ps. Dear feedist pals, if you feel that what I've said here resonates with you, and mirrors your feelings at all, please feel free to reblog the shit out of this in the hopes that more visibility may help it reach its intended audience. Thanks gang ♥️🍰🍕

[technoturian]

I have been thinking about this a lot. I drafted this and considered not posting it, but I read this post and I kinda wanted to add onto it and at the same time I didn't want to derail it with my own issue. Discussion of Neil Gaiman, fandom, and fatphobia below...

I was not a fan of Neil Gaiman. Not in a way where I disliked him, I just simply didn't engage with his work whatsoever. He was a non-entity to me. But when his big "Sandman" show came out I became aware of a certain incident in his show, namely the fatphobic depiction of the concept of "Despair". In an article about his work I remember Gaiman's characters in the source material had been described as fitting the aesthetic, "heroin chic". This character, Despair, the personification of human misery, was the only fat woman in the main cast.

I saw other fat folks call this out. I saw a direct response from him that, in my opinion, was smug and patronizing. But much more importantly, I saw flocks of people defending not his choice, but him personally. About what a feminist he is. About how thoughtful he is. We just didn't understand his genius. It was a misunderstanding. A misinterpretation. Because that would be bad, and he's not bad, he's good.

Some even went so far as to defend the choice as "better in the source material". You see, in the source material the fat woman personifying human misery was naked! It was better when she wasn't so sad, she simply scurried about like some hateful gremlin, shocking her victims with the grotesquity of her uncovered fatness. Isn't that better?

I researched the character and read a claim that her body was inspired by the Venus of Willendorf. The Venus of Willendorf is a historical artifact of a voluptuous woman. It signifies desire and fertility. Dare I even say, joy. And then someone allegedly saw this artifact and went, "I will name it Despair."

I was offended by reading that, but after doing so I found that I was so much more offended by the response. I mean, it's obvious that this was fatphobia, wasn't it? It was so clearly cut and dry. There was no kinder interpretation. And yet I watched as people bent over backwards, because he was so good! And he made them feel seen and so he couldn't have any prejudices that make that less true. And so when I posted about this whole situation I mainly posted about that response. Because that's what irked me most.

And after that, I decided I wasn't going to be a Neil Gaiman fan on purpose, rather than on accident. When it came to the man himself, I just rolled my eyes and put him into the box of "Not For Me". He could have turned out to be a holy saint in all other ways, for all I knew or cared.

But he wasn't a saint. He turned out to be a rapist.

I'm sorry if this comes across as a gotcha because that's the opposite of my intention. I'm not saying it to derail focus. I'm not trying to make it all about me or my pet cause.

What I'm trying to say is, people will now see things like Despair and take it as a "sign". It's going to be okay now to pick apart his work because now he's a rapist. But I didn't need to know he wasn't a good person to know this person's work wasn't safe for me. And I also knew it wasn't safe to say so, because everyone who tried to talk about how hurt they felt was told how wrong they were to feel that way.

At the same time, it's safe for me to finally vent about how this made me feel now, now that it doesn't matter because he's not good, he's bad actually.

I guess I'm just hoping instead of the usual pattern, where everyone bemoans the fall from grace and debates whether we "should have known" or "couldn't have known", people reading this can try to make space for a middle ground of criticism of the things you love now. Find that gray area somewhere between the top of the pedestal where everything the saint did was with the best intentions, and down in the muck where we should've known he was a rapist all along. Not because saints are secret rapists, but because there are no saints, and most people are there in the middle.

[reasonsforhope]

The Vox article on progress comes across as very thorough... right up to the point where it does a drive-by on fat people by citing ob*sity as an example of a problem (while there remains no proven causality between larger body size and negative health outcomes; much of the latter can be attributed to weight cycling (yo-yo dieting) and the daily stress of experiencing weight discrimination).

Then they circle the block and come back to cite weight-loss drugs (!!!) as a 'solution' (I'm not even going to start debunking that one, as I would become an unskippable cutscene). The startling lack of research into this subject can't help but undermine my trust in the rigor in the rest of the article. :(

I'm absolutely not suggesting that because of one blind spot, the rest of the research is bunk. But it does poison the intended emotional impact of the piece with a reminder that even in the world of progress, people of certain sizes are unwelcome and seen as a problem to be solved. :(

Wherever you stand on the issue, I would respectfully request that links to that Vox article come with a content warning for fatphobic language and discussion of weight loss. Thank you.

Fair enough, I did super wince at and hate that part of the article (that's where I stand on the issue). Warning added. (Okay for a warning for "fatphobia" to cover both parts?)

Re: the rest of the research, I have fact-checked a lot of those things mentioned and read a lot of the links myself, so I can vouch for much of the rest of it.

(Also added a warning/heads-up for Western-centrism in the article, because that was in fact bugging me so much.)

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[redezign-yr-logo]

Hi hello tumblr.com i come to you today as a fat person to say that literally no one cares if you call us, or characters who are fat huggable, marshmallow, rotund, whatever the fuck yall r mad about.

It's not fatphobic, it's not fetishizing us, it's not infantalising, and we really Really do not care [every fat person i know does not care]- if you wanna call us cute terms actually go ahead it's way nicer than ACTUAL fatphobic insults and speech. It's harmless and getting mad at people on our behalf is really really weird.

Honestly- is it weird to call skinny people huggable or something? Because I've never heard that argument.

I've noticed a really weird trend of people 'whiteknighting' fat people and like. please stop. go focus on actual issues rather than someone calling some fat character a huggable marshmallow. Please.

Oh also marshmallow is used as a positive term in Japan by the Marshmallow Girls, who are fat people fighting the really horrible beauty standards there!! They're trying to embrace their weight in a cute way, and to support each other. Go do research on them :]

So uh yeah, rant over, don't be weird.

[fatphobiabusters]

Fatphobic thin people sure talk a lot about how fat people should "just lose weight" for a group that has a vast amount of privilege dependent on fat people existing.

They know they benefit from having a group to abuse and use as a pedestal, and yet at the same time they demand thinness of us. It's like a person dangling a million dollars in front of a poor person and laughing as they quickly pull that check away as soon as the poor person tries to grab it.

The only reason they're able to live by this hypocrisy is that weight loss doesn't work. Over a century of scientific research has not managed to prove a single sustainable method of weight loss. So fatphobic thin people can keep dangling that check with the safe satisfaction of knowing that even if the poor person managed to grab it, the check was never signed to begin with.

-Mod Worthy

[talonpaw]

nothing irks me more than watching a person who is otherwise comes off as intelligent and well-articulated resort to fatphobic jokes to “own” whoever they disagree with

my least favorite iteration of this is: [thoughtful and well-researched analysis of christofascism in the united states]

…and also conservatives are FAT 🤣🤣🤣🫵🫵📸📸📸😱😱😱💀💀🚨🚨🚨🚨🤪🤪🎉🎉🎉🎉

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

hi i have diabetes, @ other anon having (unmedicated) type 2 diabetes is more likely to make you keep weight/have a harder time losing it because of insulin resistance and nutrients and stuff making sure you keep that fat to use it for energy when you can't get sustenance from the food you eat because your insulin doesn't work

with type one, you have no insulin in your body at all so you can't get any nutrients out of your food so with unmedicated type 1 you will lose weight very fast because your body is taking the nutrients out of your fat deposits because it can't get them from your food

tldr: being fat does not cause diabetes, but one type of diabetes can cause keeping fat and one type of diabetes can cause losing fat

there are some really good reads on the american diabetes association's website about it!

it really is sad how often diabetes gets thrown around by fatphobes because so few people who bring it up actually do any research on what it even is to begin with let alone what may cause it.

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