#healthism
Contrary to popular belief dieting, exercising, and watching what you eat isn’t bad or evil as a woman or man.
Aesthetic beauty is an ideal and takes qualities like discipline, temperance, and delayed gratification which are all noble in their own right.
Stuffing your face and indulging in the trash considered food the industrial food complex has created to deteriorate you is the real evil
You seem incredibly confused over what feminism means, because fatphobia has no place in feminism.
You assume fat people are eating “"bad”“ foods, and that’s what’s causing everyone to be fat. One problem, millions fat. I don’t think it takes a genius to realize that fundamentally doesn’t make sense. Even if everyone at the same thing every day, we’d all be different sizes. Human diversity is *beautiful*
You also don’t think fat people can have a good visual aesthetic?? Maybe we don’t see the same fat folks bc I’ve never seen an ugly fat person, they simply don’t exist!! Fat people are some of the most beautiful people I’ve ever seen, but even if they weren’t, they’re still people and still deserve respect from skinny people.
Fat people are beautiful but it’s unhealthy to be overweight I’m sorry if facts hurt your feelings
Facts huh?? I’m positive these ‘facts’ you speak of are less hard truths and more the diet industry tightening its grasp on folks.
First off, there’s a difference between overweight and ob*se, and usually it’s ob*se people considered unhealthy. Overweight folks sure, but its ob*se people that you’re supposed to be hating here. So you’re starting off incorrect, and I’m left wondering how you got so turned around.
Anyways, doesn’t matter, you just don’t know what you’re talking about and are parroting what you’ve been told using incorrect language, happens to the best of us (jk, you sound dumb as hell, open a book and get off tumblr girl!!!)
You seem very preoccupied with "health”, but I’d be willing to bet I’m much healthier than you, even being fat. That’s besides the point. Your preoccupation with health screams 'I’m currently slim and able-bodied, and those who aren’t are less than I, and health is the most important thing in life, not actually living life and enjoying myself". Which is sad. Disabled people still live great lives. Fat people live wonderful lives. Unhealthy people live long and happy lives.
Worry not, dear fatphobe, you don’t hurt my feelings. I just mourn for the day you’re no longer slim and able-bodied. The day all your shallow beliefs come crashing down around you and you are forced to realize health is fleeting and meaningless.
When fat stereotypes are negative: boo hoo, you can’t stereotype a whole class of people like that. That’s fatphobic. You are hateful.
When fat stereotypes are positive: this is so true of us, nobody knows, nobody wants to accept this.
Hashtags #allbodiesaregoodbodies but
“Fuck them skinny bitches”
Basically ‘My entire self-worth is defined by penis’
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Being obese is not a political statement.
There’s nothing anticapitalist about celebrating overconsumption.
Im trying to follow their logic. I could see there being something to criticize in that healthier food is more expensive so poverty and obesity are often correlated. So putting all the emphasis on individual responsibility while giving systems that allow for people to not be able to afford to eat reasonably a pass could be seen as akin to telling individual consumers that the climate is changing cos they didn’t recycle enough last week when corporations are blasting poison into the air.
But.. I dont see how being critical of a capitalist system that neglects people into obesity through poverty would lead to celebrating said obesity. You could be critical of peoples lack of access to healthy food, good healthcare, or education about nutrition, and understand that obese folks arent all just tumblr HAES warriors eating all the cake, but still recognize that obesity is not a good thing. You could be critical of the aspects of our society that make it more difficult for some people to be healthy, but wouldn’t your goal be “let’s fix that so everyone can be healthier” instead of “fuck it, it’s not all my fault so it’s not at all my fault”?
Isnt that like saying, “it’s harder to get a post secondary education if you dont have lots of money” and instead of working to make school more affordable or removing barriers that keep some people from going, just being like “fuck education anyway. The word education is just a capitalist ploy. There are things that make it harder for some people than others so the whole endeavour is trash”
People love the myth that Health is a Choice. Because if it’s a choice, then unhealthy people deserve to be unhealthy. And that makes society’s job so much easier.
If health is a choice, society gets to shirk its responsibility to accommodate people with disabilities, chronic illnesses, mental health issues, and those who are undiagnosed but struggling. It’s an excuse to ignore all the very necessary changes that need to be made–changes in healthcare, in social safety nets, in building codes, in the language we use and the way we interact with people with different needs.
Healthy people love the illusion that health is a choice, and media encourages that illusion because it helps excuse the many, many shortcomings of the current system.But healthy people don’t stay healthy forever--and when their needs inevitably change, they will find themselves at the mercy of an inadequate, indifferent system that views “inconvenient” human lives as disposable.
