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yinza · 2 days
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Dear Squeenix: I have rewritten your god-awful flashback.
It's hard to fathom the level of disrespect required to think it was appropriate to include multiple fat jokes in the lead up to his death scene. Not that they're ever appropriate, but what the actual fuck?
[Image Description: A greyscale digital comic in 3 panels, reframing a flashback in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Panel 1 shows Polk and Wedge seated in the truck. Polk looks worried, and Wedge is smiling encouragingly with a hand on his shoulder as he says, "Hey. We're gonna make it through this. Just remember what you're fighting for."
Panel 2 shows Wedge and Billy Bob climbing the stairwell together. Wedge grips the railing with one hand while his other arm is slung across Billy Bob's shoulders, letting Billy Bob support him. Billy Bob is saying, "I can't believe you signed on for this mission when you're still recovering from Sector 7!" Wedge replies, "My friends need help. I can't let them down."
Panel 3 shows the exterior of the Shinra Building. A window on one of the upper floors has blasted open, and a small figure is silhouetted flying back. /end ID]
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fatphobiabusters · 15 hours
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It's funny when fatphobes try to tell me that they've "never seen" any studies that disprove their views when I would bet you a million dollars that the fatphobes who say that have not only never read any studies about weight in the first place but also have never analyzed said studies nor purposefully looked for weight science studies that go against their biases.
A fatphobe today tried to tell me that they'd "never seen" any studies that prove themself wrong and then immediately admitted that they're uneducated about the subject. Their "argument" was based on biases they haven't re-evaluated since the elementary school classes they took almost two decades ago when they were spoonfed by the adults in their life information, worldviews, and common biases written in a way a 1st grader could understand.
What's even more baffling is how many of these fatphobes who try to say this to me are "progressive" people. You're telling me that you understand you need to re-evaluate your worldview and what you were taught as a kid due to biases you were fed about people of color, gay people, trans people, disabled people, literally every oppressed group out there, but somehow that "just happens" to stop at fat people?
You're telling me that you understand there's been countless times in history when "science" was used to oppress the marginalized groups you care about, but that "just happens" to stop at fat people when there are hundreds of billions of dollars to be made off of JUST the weight loss industry alone, not to mention all of the other ways that hating fatness and fat people "just happen" to line the pockets of the people in power?
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The hypocrisy that "progressive" people use when talking about fat people is immense, and I'm fucking tired of it.
-Mod Worthy
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dykefaggotry · 2 days
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ppl online when you say fat people should not have to be miserable and hate themselves for their weight
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yuyadiary-blog · 2 days
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Thinness is synonymous of elegance, thin women dress as they want and fat women as they can.
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sweaty-confetti · 8 months
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idk y’all should treat fat men better. and i don’t mean mildly chubby guys i mean honest-to-god love-handles-and-double-chins fat guys. stop calling them shit like discord mods or gross weebs or nasty creeps or neckbeards or that they’re stinky or sweaty or beer bellied or whatever else. fatphobia isn’t cute, even repackaged in a neat little box of “ew men”
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animentality · 3 months
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shamebats · 3 months
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Doctors to trans people: are you really sure you want these hormones? I don't think you are. I don't believe you. There are risks, you know? It will change your body. Tell me your entire life story and I'll decide whether you've wanted this for long enough. Oh you didn't know when you were 5 years old? Yikes, ok. I think I'll need you to jump through all these hoops and then we can maybe consider it in...100 years
Doctors to fat people who literally didn't ask: have you heard of this surgery that'll mess up your digestive system, just absolutely fucking mutilate it? Mess with your ability to eat and drink normally? Potentially fuck up your ability to absorb nutrients? Yes, and you don't want it? Are you suuuure? Are you really sure? I'm going to bring this up 1000 more times just to be sure also there's this diabetes drug...
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chthonic-pain · 5 months
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diet culture is so fucking sad.
i once played the asking game with my mom when she was talking to me about her diet plans.
why are you dieting? because i've gained loads of weight recently. who cares? everyone does. i don't care. but i do. why? because i don't want to be fat. why don't you want to be fat? because it's embarrassing and i don't want to be an ugly pig. is being fat hurting you? not especially, but it's not nice for other people to look at.
at this point i looked at her and said "don't you think it's sad that you're spending your whole life putting these rules upon yourself, rules that naturally skinny people aren't expected to abide by, all for the effort of trying not to be fat?" and she looked back at me with suddenly wet eyes and said, with an amount of difficulty, that yes, it is sort of sad when you think about it.
she's been fat ever since i, her eldest child, was born. she was always super skinny in her youth, but pregnancy changed her body shape and her metabolism, and i only ever knew her as a very fat woman growing up. chances are, she will never be thin again. her lifestyle is no different to how it was before my existence; her body just works differently now. she sees it as a personal failure. she doesn't eat her favorite foods anymore, doesn't go out dating, doesn't make friends, doesn't go to events, doesn't allow anyone to buy her clothes for her birthday because she can't bear anyone knowing her size. she lives a lonely life, unwilling to do her favorite things. she elected for a gastric bypass surgery which, over the last few years, has introduced multiple complications that came very close to killing her, and yet she doesn't regret the surgery because it helped her lose a few pounds. she basically does not have a stomach anymore and she still believes her fatness is because she's been doing something wrong for the last 20something years.
diet culture is deadly not only because of the self-starvation and malnutrition but because it rips away pieces of your life that you're supposed to enjoy. relationships and sex are only for thin people, a glass of wine and some chocolate at the end of a difficult day is an indulgence only allowed to thin people, cute clothes are only for thin people, family photographs are only for the thin relatives, riding a bike on vacation with your kids is only for families with thin parents.
doesn't your soul ache? doesn't it hurt you to see people doing this to themselves, to inflict this on YOURself? you can do all of these things. your life can be lived fully and joyously and with love, but you distance yourself from the things that make you happy because you feel like you aren't good enough for them. it breaks my heart.
fatphobia is something oft inflicted upon people by others, but it comes from inside too. kill the part of you that thinks you aren't good enough. your body is perfect already, my love.
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faggy--butch · 6 months
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fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it'll say "eating a lot of food causes diabetes" and you're like oh dang what? I thought we didn't know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says "we still don't know what causes diabetes" bruh they're just making shit up to give people eating disorders
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uncanny-tranny · 7 months
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Fat people deserve mobility aids, too. No matter if it's connected to their fatness or not, because having a mobility issue that is connected to one's fatness won't change that they're still fat and still have the issue at hand. Fat people don't deserve to "tough it out" because fatness should be this divine punishment doled out to those who "deserve" it. Fat disabled people deserve to have the peace of mind that they can exist in whatever way is most comfortable and accessible to them
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sitronsangbody · 2 months
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No one is forcing you to be attracted to fat people. All you have to do is be normal and polite and not like.. cruel and mean. You'd think this wasn't a big ask but Guess What
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lylahammar · 5 months
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skinny ppl learn to shut the fuck up when the conversation isn't about you challenge
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gayvampyr · 10 months
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fat people are allowed to be fat even if they don’t starve themselves or push themselves physically past their limits btw
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dykefaggotry · 3 days
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the other thing too is that losing weight is NOT a neutral action in the same way that being fat is.
what do I mean by that?
well, it is morally neutral in that no one should be judging you for wanting to lose weight & wanting to lose weight does not make you a bad person
however. it's not a neutral action. in the same way that feminists critique the beauty industry and makeup and constantly get replies like "but I LIKE wearing makeup!!!!" that completely miss the point. that's sort of the same thing happening when fat activists/people that advocate for fat liberation point out the flaws in diet culture and get "but I NEED to lose weight for (xyz "good" reasons) are you saying I'm a bad person?" that completely miss the point.
in an ideal world, people could lose and gain weight without a single bat of an eye. but we don't live in that world. not only is it scientifically proven that most people CANNOT sustainably keep weight they've lost off (and no, not due to lack of self control) and that losing weight (especially rapidly) can have some huge health consequences, but, more relevantly, these ideas of weight and health and beauty are SO tangled up in fatphobia and western beauty standards that it's nigh impossible to reach some Enlightened State where your reason for weight loss is untouched by it.
you want to lose weight to "be healthier?" who told you you were unhealthy? was it your doctor? doctors that routinely suggest fat patients lose weight for every complaint ever including the common cold or a broken bone? was it society telling you being fat is unhealthy even though you ARE healthy? and if you're Not healthy, do you know for sure it's your weight? because thin people can also have high cholesterol and heart problems. there's other ways to fix these things that don't involve weight loss to dangerous degrees, but doctors are already so up their own ass about fat people that they probably didn't discuss anything with you other than "lose weight." does that mean no fat person ever is unhealthy because they're fat? no. but it Does mean that that reason is so tangled up in fatphobia that 100% stating you're free of diet culture when you say it just is Not accurate
you want to lose weight to "feel better about yourself"? well this one's easy and won't be as long as the last. why do you feel that way? who taught you that being fat is something to feel bad about? if you lived 500 years ago before diet culture, would you feel pressure to lose weight to feel better about yourself?
and none of this is to say you CAN'T chose to lose weight. it's your body. you can do whatever the fuck you want with it, good or bad. but when people talk about fatphobia and fat liberation and your first response is "oh but I'm losing weight for the GOOD reasons" stop yourself. ask if that's relevant to the conversation. ask yourself if those reasons ARE neutral. if they're tied to health, body image (including dysphoria!), or how other people perceive you? the answer is no
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gothhabiba · 11 months
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a post: it’s okay to be fat
responses: yes AND it’s okay to be skinny too!!! women are gorgeous even if they CAN’T gain an ounce 💜 now I’m not comparing this to fatphobia at all 🥺 but people assume things of me all the time just because I’m 😡 thin 😡 and that isn’t right either. it’s just more assumptions and exclusion ❤️ anyway not to detract from the OP at all but just remember that thin women are soooooo valid
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“The fear of being fat is the fear of joining an underclass that you have so readily dismissed, looked down on, looked past, or found yourself grateful not to be a part of. It is a fear of being seen as slothful, gluttonous, greedy, unambitious, unwanted, and, worst of all, unlovable. Fat has largely been weaponized by straight-size people — the very people it seems to hurt most deeply. And ultimately, thin people are terrified of being treated the way they have so often seen fat people treated or even the way they’ve treated fat people themselves. In that way, thinness isn’t just a matter of health or beauty or happiness. It is a cultural structure of power and dominance.”
— Aubrey Gordon
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