#Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

"Progressive" YouTube channel: Republicans are hypocritical and lying to vulnerable, oppressed people to try to gain power and wealth

Same channel: ANYWAY, time for today's sponsor—a weight loss corporation! 😊

(I wish I was making this up. I really wish I was.)

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

So this is supposed to be funny because some shitty fatphobic comedians...made a shitty fatphobic mascot...and people started supporting that shitty fatphobic mascot...which takes integrity away from the Olympic games...because fat people being associated with the Olympics is laughable? Am I getting that right?

Not only are there fat Olympians every single time the Olympics happen, you have to be either ignorant as fuck or a fatphobic asshole to think this is comedic; I wouldn't be surprised if you're both. Even if you took the picture out of the equation, you think "Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat" isn't a bigoted joke? Really?

What makes this even more shitty is that fat Olympians have to work ten times as hard to get sponsors, fans, and any recognition because fat Olympians don't "look" the part. So we as a world are not only a-okay with fat Olympians being treated unfairly, we're also a-okay with doubling down on that fatphobia and outright mocking any fat people who dare to participate in the Olympics.

Tumblr sure loves to pretend to support diversity and equality until that means having to include "fat-arsed" people in the definition of diversity and equality, huh?

-Mod Worthy

thinkig about when the 2000s olympics was in sydney and these two comedians introduced an unofficial mascot called fatso the fat arsed wombat which looked like this

and everybody in australia just started acting like he was the official olympic mascot to the point where ppl were winning gold medals and bringing a plushie of him up to the podium

and the olympic committee got so mad about it they had to implement all these bans to try and preserve the integrity of the games or whatever but literally nobody else gave a shit so he just kept . showing up everywhere

[fatphobiabusters]

Just a reminder: If you have an eating disorder and use fat positive posts and photos of fat people to throw up to, you are the scum of the earth. There is not a single goddamn mental disorder in this universe that makes your actions acceptable, and I say this as somebody with mental disorders, including eating disorders. Get the fuck away from fat people. When you seek out an innocent oppressed group of people for you to abuse for the sake of feeding your disorder, you are in the wrong. There is not a single excuse you can use to make what you're doing acceptable. Period. Thinspo scum are not welcome on this blog, nor on any other fat positive blog on the internet. You can look at content of fat people again when you stop doing so for the purpose of using us as your eating disorder porn. There are no words to adequately describe just how heinous, despicable, and evil thinspo scum are. When you go out of your way to find photos of fat people in ambulances to laugh at with your thinspo friends, you are truly an evil person and deserve your suffering. Hope this helps!

-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]

Did you see this duo at a cheerleading competition? It's a boy and girl (man and woman? Don't know the ages right now) and yeah the man is fat and very strong and they made gold. And until now I've only seen positive comments. As a male ex cheerleader it made my day

I hadn't heard about this before! What's so ironic is these people are from USF, which is where I did my undergraduate degree! I immediately recognized that bull logo. So wild to see one of my own universities in our ask box! I had to watch the video both for that and the fat representation. I'm very glad that all of the comments I read were positive like you mentioned. Thank you for sending us this great fat positive content, especially with how difficult it is to find fat masc and fat athlete representation on Tumblr.

For anybody else who wants to watch the video:

-Mod Worthy

[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]

because of your blog i ate a few muffins today while watching the formula one. you’re making a difference with what you do, especially when diet culture keeps telling me that my body is getting “worse” from the meds that keep me alive.

when watching your thing of choice this weekend, whenever that is, give yourself a treat to watch with it because you deserve it

I'm so glad that we've been able to help you! You taking medicine that keeps you alive is so important and good. You deserve to live, and that includes living at the weight your body naturally feels comfortable at while taking your medicine. You deserve to eat food that satiates and nourishes you too, so I'm happy you allowed yourself those muffins!

-Mod Worthy

[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]

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

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

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]

We have evidence of fat people existing all the way back in ancient human populations. Thousands and thousands and thousands of years of history.

Before capitalism.

Before food deserts.

Before sedentary lifestyles.

Before Coca-Cola.

Before the "ob*sity epidemic."

Before it became profitable to oppress fat people.

Before your mom worried about her stretch marks and weight gain from giving birth to you.

Before insurance companies wanted excuses to charge people more, let alone before insurance companies even existed.

Before food was readily available.

Before added sugar was even possible.

Before farming.

Before the end of hunter-gatherers.

Before civilizations.

Before we knew how to turn maize into corn.

Before the ancient pyramids.

Before the bible.

Before the creation of modern day nations.

20,000 years ago

30,000 years ago

31,000 years ago

40,000 years ago

There's evidence since the beginning of human beings making art of human beings.

We were here before Weight Watchers, and we will be here after Weight Watchers. We will be here after every attempt at eliminating us. After every attempt to make us conform, to abuse us, to silence our voices and history. Every try at taking away our children and murdering us, we will be here.

Fat people have been here all along, and the science confirms that we are never going to disappear no matter how hard you try to erase us from this world.

-Mod Worthy

It will never not baffle me how hard society tries to insist that fatness is an abnormality. The average western woman wears plus size clothing. One of the smallest garments on the scale is called a medium. Most people with anorexia are in the overweight bmi category, yet somehow that's known as "atypical anorexia". Fatness is often labeled the cause of a number of diseases, but there are literally no diseases exclusive to fat bodies. Looking at movies and television, you'd think the world was 98% thin people. It's not.

My point isn't that if it was pretty rare to be fat, fatphobia would be okay. Of course not.

My point is that we're surrounded by all these artificial indicators that fatness is unnatural and uncommon and it's just not true?? Humans are not always thin and we've never all been thin and we're not all meant to be thin. Fat humans are a normal type of human. Fatness is a feature, not a bug.

[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

[mroddmod]

bro u gotta stop fuckin looking at me like that

[fatphobiabusters]

-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