Reblogged from nynakin-deactivated20120301 :
Fat Acceptance is not about encouraging people to gain weight. It is about learning to accept and love who you are at this present moment and working with what you have to have a happy and fulfilling life.
- Diets are not the answer to long term weight loss. There is currently no guaranteed answer to long term weight loss.
- Fat does not equate with ill health, just as thin does not equate with good health. My point about fat/thin and health is that not all fat people are unhealthy, just as not all thin people are healthy. It is assumed fat people are unhealthy simply because they are fat. There are many studies that show that having extra weight can be an advantage when it comes to some illnesses and it has not been proven how exactly fat ’causes’ illnesses so until then, well I think there are a myriad of other ways of looking at the correlation between weight and supposed ill health. And really, health is not a moral imperative. That means that whether you choose to eat a certain way or do particular amounts of exercise (or not) is entirely up to you and if you don’t do it you are not a bad person. It is your choice.
- Fat people are not all lazy, gluttonous slobs who spend all day sitting on the sofa eating donuts. Just as not all thin people are out exercising daily and eating nothing but leafy greens.
- You cannot believe everything reported in the media regarding the so called ‘obesity epidemic’.
- You cannot believe everything you read in Results section of studies – you need to learn how to analyse such studies and consider things such as the sample, the methodology and who is sponsoring the research.
- Fat people deserve to be treated with the same dignity and respect that average weight people do.
- The BMI is a flawed measure and not appropriate for categorising body weight.
- There is such a thing as ‘thin privilege’ and it pervades Western society (and probably other societies as well). Underweight people can be ostracised too, but I think there is a lot more emphasis on fat hatred than on super-thin hatred and the ‘oh you have lost weight’ phrase is more often heard as praise than as criticism – in my experience anyway. But yeah, I am talking about people who are considered to be a ‘normal’ or ‘average’ weight rather than those with illnesses such as eating disorders or those that are genetically very small.
- It doesn’t matter why someone is fat. People are fat for a variety of reasons. Some people are fat because of medication, some are fat because of genetics, some are fat because they eat a lot. It is irrelevant why someone is fat. Every fatty deserves to be treated with respect regardless of WHY they are fat.
- Correlation does not equal causation. In other words it has not been proved that fat actually causes diabetes, heart attacks and all the rest. There is a correlation between fat and those conditions but it has not been shown how actual body fat could cause these illnesses and until it has, that is correlation which does not equal causation.
I thought that there might be some readers out there who are new to the concept of Fat Acceptance. I posted some of what I see as the basic tenets of Fat Acceptance right here… There are plenty more where those come from but that is just off the top of my head, I will be adding to the list as I think of more (feel free to remind me of some!).
Photo: Aija Barzdina+Krissy Woodard, Liis Windischmann, Justine Legault
"Shaming someone for their own good doesn’t work – if it did, we’d all be thin, y’all! But we aren’t! And it isn’t because dieting has never occurred to us before. It’s because diets don’t work – and people end up gaining weight every time their diets fail. This is not a failure of people – this is a failure of our social expectations. If people were as convinced they could fly as they are that people can lose weight just by willing it hard enough, we’d have a lot of unfortunate accidents."
(Source: therotund.com)
The moment I read this poem it spoke to my heart. I’ve posted it on here before but I felt the urge to share it again just to remind all of my phenomenal women out there that they are powerful, beautiful, and absolutely perfect just as they are.
Those that would tell you differently are simply afraid that you just may be stronger and more confident than they could ever dream of being. So let their words roll off your back and remind yourself that you are a phenomenal woman and that nothing anyone says can change that.
(P.S)
The pic is a tattoo design from a font that I am editing. If you want to use it please credit me.
Phenomenal Woman
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I’m telling lies.
I say,
It’s in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can’t touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can’t see.
I say,
It’s in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
Now you understand
Just why my head’s not bowed.
I don’t shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It’s in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
‘Cause I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
Every single one of you =)
loe
You will all get sick of me talking about this but I’m not stopping =)
This is a great concept that just needs a little help getting off of the ground. Help us change the way the media portrays women:
(I posted this as a reblog earlier but I wanted to post it on it’s own as well)
Actually I can think of countless things that taste SO much better than starving myself or making myself miserable in the attempt to reach some unattainable goal of what society tells us is beautiful. Happiness, true happiness, that stems from loving the woman that I am and let me tell you it tastes better than anything on this earth. The truth is that nothing feels as good as loving me for who I am. The flaws, the scars (both emotional and physical), the extra pounds, the frizzy hair, the oily skin, the small boobs, it all combines in a beautiful way to form me. I am an imperfect person in every way imaginable; but so is the girl that has the ‘perfect’ figure. This idea that skinny is the goal; that skinny is perfection; that if you are skinny you will finally love yourself and that other people will love you is unfortunately a big lie. If you can’t like yourself at whatever size you are now you will never find satisfaction no matter your size; this is because when you lose that 20 pounds or 50 pounds you will feel that you need to lose more and more and more in order to be ‘pretty’ and skinny. The scathing truth of it all is that due to the way that our society functions you will neverbe good enough. All that you have to do is look at the rag magazines the next time that you check out at any store; one day so-and-so is way too thin and disgusting, the next she is a fat cow; there is no winning this battle unless you STOP FIGHTING IT. We did not sign up to be drafted into an army against ourselves when we got our drivers licenses, there is no “Woman Handbook” that states that if you are above a size 2 you are simply unacceptable, all of these things that say that we are less than because we aren’t the “ideal woman” are things that we just accept. My question is why? Why do we accept so readily that we aren’t good enough; yet we deny and vehemently fight against the idea that just maybe we are enough, that just maybewe are beautiful and perfect just the way we are? This needs to be switched around. I am not saying that there is anything wrong with wanting to lose weight, especially for health reasons, but when you are seeking to lose weight to increase your self-worth you need to reevaluate your reasons. To close out this rant I propose a revolutionary idea; instead of posting this on your mirror or chanting it to yourself as you stare venomously at that piece of cake post this/chant this throughout the day: I am a beautiful strong woman. Nothing anyone can say changes that.
Reblogged from lovequotesrus :
Photo Courtesy: scottzzzz
“Pretty, pretty please don’t you ever, ever, feel like you’re less than fucking perfect!”
Because your flaws are beautiful.
Reblogged from wishalittle :
Actually I can think of countless things that taste SO much better than starving myself or making myself miserable in the attempt to reach some unattainable goal of what society tells us is beautiful.
Happiness, true happiness, that stems from loving the woman that I am and let me tell you it tastes better than anything on this earth.
The truth is that nothing feels as good as loving me for who I am. The flaws, the scars (both emotional and physical), the extra pounds, the frizzy hair, the oily skin, the small boobs, it all combines in a beautiful way to form me. I am an imperfect person in every way imaginable; but so is the girl that has the ‘perfect’ figure.
This idea that skinny is the goal; that skinny is perfection; that if you are skinny you will finally love yourself and that other people will love you is unfortunately a big lie. If you can’t like yourself at whatever size you are now you will never find satisfaction no matter your size; this is because when you lose that 20 pounds or 50 pounds you will feel that you need to lose more and more and more in order to be ‘pretty’ and skinny.
The scathing truth of it all is that due to the way that our society functions you will neverbe good enough. All that you have to do is look at the rag magazines the next time that you check out at any store; one day so-and-so is way too thin and disgusting, the next she is a fat cow; there is no winning this battle unless you STOP FIGHTING IT.
We did not sign up to be drafted into an army against ourselves when we got our drivers licenses, there is no “Woman Handbook” that states that if you are above a size 2 you are simply unacceptable, all of these things that say that we are less than because we aren’t the “ideal woman” are things that we just accept. My question is why?
Why do we accept so readily that we aren’t good enough; yet we deny and vehemently fight against the idea that just maybe we are enough, that just maybe we are beautiful and perfect just the way we are? This needs to be switched around.
I am not saying that there is anything wrong with wanting to lose weight, especially for health reasons, but when you are seeking to lose weight to increase your self-worth you need to reevaluate your reasons.
To close out this rant I propose a revolutionary idea; instead of posting this on your mirror or chanting it to yourself as you stare venomously at that piece of cake post this/chant this throughout the day:
I am a beautiful strong woman. Nothing anyone can say changes that.
Oh did I forget to mention that I look fabulous today? I think I did.
Reblogged from khloemagazine :
Yes, yes, yes (I’m apparently really into repeating things 3 times today)!
This makes me love Zooey that much more.
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