It’s not a man’s place to be critiquing what feminists should be, how they should operate, how they should act or conduct themselves, or to inject our opinions into their spaces.
Why you ask?
The whole reason a man even asks “why” is because as men we are socialize and…
“Real Pin Up” is a line of illustrations I’ve been working on to represent the average woman. As you may or may not know I’ve loved to draw in pin up style, but always found myself painting the same type of figure. There are so many different sorts of people in this world, and each deserve to feel as confident as those pin ups. Our “flaws” are what make us beautiful, and unlike anyone else. It’s time to celebrate what makes us different, so this is a line to represent all the wonderful kinds of women out there! If you have any suggestions for a subject, please email me at oddi.jessica@gmail.com.
This first idea hits real close to home. Though this woman is not myself (though the reference for the chair really came in handy), she represents the things I can be self-conscious about. Having SMA (a form of Muscular Distrophy), I’ve always had to bite my finger in order to lift my arm up, and have had a sort of distorted figure. Sometimes it’s difficult to feel 100% confident with the weird shape, and bulky chair. But the way I see it, six wheels are better than none! For all those lovely disabled (or handicapped if you prefer) women out there, you’re absolutely gorgeous.
Reblogging this again because it’s fabulous and I can.
(via redefiningbodyimage)
Thin Privilege is not having to worry that your body size could factor into your grad school application.
Mod Note: I just went through the process of applying for grad schools last fall and this was a real fear of mine when applying to programs. -FBP
omg NO though what the actual fuck
oh hell no.
Wow, that’s really fucked up. :/
Why is Geoffrey when he’s
>Implying that body fat is directly related to food intake (Genes tell the body how to process and distribute food)
>That food intake, no matter what, is too much (Sometimes one can eat very little, and because their body is poor at doing its job, it doesn’t show)
>Monitoring food intake is the ONLY factor to manage obesity (Ignoring eating disorders)
>Ignoring that it’s literally been found that some people have fewer tastebuds and thus get lesser satisfaction from eating, causing them to eat more (Oh wow would you look at that /biology taking a part in obesity/ who would have thought)
>Ignoring that there are literally disorders where you’re hungry all the time and it has jack shit to do with ‘willpower’, in the same way you can’t ‘willpower’ through depression or a broken bone because it’s a DISORDER
Why do we hate fat people for being fat? No, really, I want to know. I hear some say it’s because they’re unhealthy. So then do we get mad at people for having a cold? “That’s fucking disgusting, Sara, you dumb bitch. You should have washed your hands. Oh my god just kill yourself. Why do you think you’re special enough to get a day off?” No, because that doesn’t happen. Is it because they’re unattractive? Are you literally three years old and think that attractiveness is the sole defining feature of a person’s worth? Are you so self-centred that you think YOUR subjective definitions for what appeals to YOU should be enforced by everyone else?
WHAT THE FUCK DOES BEING FAT HAVE TO DO WITH A PhD.
MR. MILLER.
THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS WRONG WITH WHAT YOU SAID.
(via thisisthinprivilege)
Marilyn Wann discovered this ad in her hometown and shared it on her Facebook page after posting a letter next to it, complete with an open list for signatures, that states:
“This ad promotes negative stereotypes and prejudice about weight, race [and] class. Children deserve respect [and] joy. That’s what we think.”
(The physical list has since been taken down/removed by an unknown source.)
Some of her followers (notably Lynn Novak) also discovered that the ad included a heavily photoshopped photo that included darkening the little girl’s skin and fattening her appearance, replacing the milk in her hand with a packet of juice.
You can also see the original image on their homepage:
http://www.ccfc.ca.gov/parents/
Now, I work in the advertising world. I sit in a gaggle of creative people who are directed to do things like this by clients, or who may genuinely feel there is nothing wrong with the harmful perpetuation of stereotypes this sort of work represents.
But I know better.
Labeling foods as “healthy” and “unhealthy” is inaccurate, especially when these messages of ill-health are being directed correlated with images of fat bodies, feeding into the kind of hysteria and fear of obesity that breeds hate and body shaming.
The bottom line is that different foods, drinks, and sugars effect different bodies in different ways.
If corporations and government organizations want to have a discussion about health and sugary drinks, that’s one thing - but there is no doubt that these messages can be expressed without pulling fat bodies into the equation, or feeding into harmful stereotypes about fatness and health.
There is so much more to be said about this ad regarding implications about diabetes, class, and race - But I will save that for those who may be better equipped to add to the conversation.
- Haley
It is no coincidence that government agencies (and diet companies) are now targeting communities of color with “obesity prevention” campaigns. The photo/ad above is only one example, but what you see are agencies going into these communities and instead of trying to solve systemic racism or poverty, which has a far larger impact on health than body size, they are only pushing to eradicate fat people.
This is aside from the photoshopping of the original image to create a child that not only looks older, darker and cartoonish is incredibly dehumanizing, fat phobic, and racist.
-Amanda-
they
altered
the body
of
a black child
to
i
fuck
this is un-fucking-acceptable
And if obesity was such a fucking “epidemic,” WHY THE FUCK COULDN’T THEY FIND AN ACTUAL FAT KID TO USE FOR THEIR PROPAGANDA INSTEAD OF PHOTOSHOPPING EXTRA FAT ONTO A THINNER CHILD?
(via ilovefat)
ive learned more about topics such as sexism and racism and rape culture and ableism and self confidence on a website that was originally made for pretty pictures than i have in my 11 years in an environment that is supposed to prepare me for the real world and if that isnt fucked up i honestly dont know what is
(Source: growlithed, via its-copasetic)
thin privilege is not being told that your body type is immoral, by a supposedly liberal facebook page
Thin privilege is this post from Survivor’s Chat (reblogged) — in a post meant to give supportive comments to people dealing with many different concerns (from anxiety to sexual assault to schizophrenia), the “what you SHOULD say” for eating disorders reads:
“It’s okay to eat, you have…
(Source: villainy1873, via fsufeministalumna)
I just looked outside to check the patriarchy and apparently it’s reigning men
(Source: washingtoncitypapercanyounot, via fsufeministalumna)
