princekarkat:

excitabletortoise:

awkwardshoulders:

hisstericalhysterectomy:

whatfreshhellisthis:

Yep yep, because fat people are not strong

Or fast

Or dextrous

OP: YOU ARE WRONG.

You don’t like Fat Fef, then fine

But stop coming up with pseudoscience ‘explanations’ of why your opinion is right, justifiable and not bigoted

Just admit it: you don’t like fat people.

Fun Fact: Play any sport competitively for long enough and you’ll stop thinking that fat people aren’t as fast/strong/dexterous/good as you. Softball, some people that were much bigger than me were taking bases like it was the easiest damn thing in the world and hitting into the outfield/warning track/home runs. Fencing, fenced a fat girl once who was so fricking fast that she’d be near me without me knowing how she even got there. True facts. 

Fun fact: I am visibly smaller than my roommate, but while I’ve been a lazy slob most of my life, he’s been playing sports for over ten years and is much much better shape than I am. Size and weight have nothing to do with “strength”.

reblog for true facts

i used to believe shit like this

im so glad the homestuck fandom exists and has taught me to know better

This isn’t a fandom journal, but I actually like this commentary so much I’m putting it over here. Way to go, commenters, for killing the fatphobia around “strength” and “activity” abilities so quickly.

This is not to say that a LACK of activity makes you inherently worthless - I don’t like the “lazy slob” language as much as the rest of it - but it is a HUGE stereotype that you can’t be healthy or active if you’re fat and it’s rare to see fandom stick up for fats so fast.

(Source: homestuckheadcanons)

queerfatfemme:

Great campaign by Marilyn Wann to end hate speech against fat kids under the guise of “health.” Send in your photos!

marilynwann:

Stand4Kids

Here’s my response to the fat-hating ads in Georgia. Please reblog! I want the world to know that I stand up to weight bullies!

If you want to Stand4Kids too, send me your photo and we’ll create an ad about what you STAND for, so you can tell the world. ALSO: Join the Facebook group, here, and learn about the project to buy a real billboard in Georgia!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/344255848935079/

WARNING: TRIGGERY

ilovefat:

(via Body Impolitic - Blog Archive - » Painting a Target on Fat Kids - Laurie Toby Edison: Photographer)

Childhood obesity has been getting a lot of media attention recently. Ironically “health” oriented initiatives that target fat children co-exist with the Safe Schools Improvement Act (SSIA), an anti-bullying measure, which does not include any mention of physical attributes (such as fat, thin, tall, or short) among the characteristics of children it would protect from bullying.

Wow, I have so many completely incoherent ragey feelings about this. Did they tell these kids this is what they were doing with these pictures? Did they just use angry fatty stock images? Did they just tell their parents? How would you feel to look at an ad and see “FAT KIDS BECOME FAT ADULTS” over your picture?

For that matter, that particular slogan nearly makes me laugh, except that I know people are so terrified of it (let me not get started on the Sara Rue coverage in People that I was reading the other day and how being the host of a weightloss show “reminds her to weigh herself”).

Some of the slogans are based off of dubious health claims (and at least they’ve tempered them with “may” and “maybe” - it’s the giant WARNING that’s the problem, not the health claim itself so much), but — “warning: fat kids become fat adults”?

For one thing, often times, they don’t. Round-faced, or even chubby, kids often lose that weight, exercise it off, or change metabolisms as they grow. However, putting them on diets almost guarantees that their bodies will have changed for the worse as they grow up. If you’re teaching a kid to count calories by the time they’re ten or twelve, you’ve destined them for a life of that, not only because you’re getting in their heads but also because their metabolism is still developing and you just taught it to expect starvation or at very least an inconstant food supply.

But for that matter, you know, what IF a fat kid becomes a fat adult? What if that happens? Does that mean they can’t be happy and even healthy? Does that mean they can’t love themselves and lead fulfilling lives and be loved and have a good job? APPARENTLY IT DOES, despite all evidence to the contrary.

What this campaign does is, instead of encouraging a supply of healthy, vitamin-rich, complex-carb-filled foods (if they can even afford it - let’s not get started on the classism inherent in these arguments), encourages parents to reduce their child’s portions, be terrified of what’s in store for them (apparently: shame, illness and early death) and shame them into being smaller. It encourages the KIDS to be shamed about their bodies.

Cruel and ridiculous.