Be Proud That You're Fat, Brehettes (#TeamStillFat GET IN HERE!)

Is Her Weight Something She Should Be Proud Of?

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Trill Russell said:
"#TeamStillFat. Because before and after's are most often triggering and a means of reminding people that happiness/ your future should revolve around losing weight or fitting lethal white, thin, and able body beauty standards. Diet culture and weight loss as a health standard are destructive and violent. There is no thin person inside of me waiting to get out. There is no health condition that is ...inherent to fatness. There is no logical excuse for why fat people shouldn't be respected or humanized. We can do what we want, wear what we want, and live how we want.

If your first response to seeing a fat person is to question their health/ well being - you're the problem. If your first response is to feel entitled to our autonomy and time by wanting to talk to us about our bodies (or health concerns) - you're the problem. If your first response is feeling uncomfortable because our body represents something you don't want to look like/ don't want to sexualize/ don't want to humanize - you're definitely the problem.

Leave us alone.
Stop promoting healthiness as thinness.
And stop perpetuating violent beauty standards that maintain racist, ableist fatphobia. #beblessed ✌️"
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I agree with her. The only time I will talk to someone overweight about losing weight is when they tell me they want to lose weight and I'll ask them about their goals and exercise habits. If they want advice I'll give it but that's as far as I go. I don't see any point in body shaming someone for not looking the way you want them to. Most people who fat shame don't give a damn about that person's health anyway.
 
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just read this

Yesterday, a family of five laughed at me as I walked by in a crop top and leggings in Target. But what's interesting is that there were two grown adults with three kids that were at least under 15 laughing at me living my life as a fat Black girl. Fatphobia is a family sport cultivated through lethal beauty standards. People will take it upon themselves to gawk, shame, and interrogate fat bodies because fatness represents disgust, shame, humor, and embarrassment. Adults will even involve their children in this shame game because to them, fat people deserve to be told that our bodies are not worthy or deserving of humanity.

But when people laugh at me in public spaces, I always ask what's funny. When I asked them, they continued to laugh and didn't answer. So then I looked the dad dead in the face and said, "Anyone could get fukked up." He proceeded to escalate in anger and wanted to have a conversation with me about my threat to his family. But his wife stopped him and made them leave. I walked away traumatized as fukk, but ready to swing on anyone.

It's moments like these that remind me that I'm not in a place where I can walk away from or ignore violence against me anymore. I will fukk you up if you dehumanize me and shame my body. I'm fukking tired. Surviving is fukking tiring. And everyday I fight to keep going. Bullying, oppression, and constant violence make you paranoid that the world is always criticizing you but gaslights you into thinking you're overreacting. But that's the thing, I am/ fat people are always being critiqued when fully covered or in a crop top, eating a salad or eating a burger, in a relationship or single, being in a gym or being at a buffet - I never feel safe in my own body. I didn't overreact, I'm responding to violence and engaging in survival strategy. Whether I fight or walked away and ignored it - this is adaptation and preservation. All my life I had to fight. All my life I've had to be my own protector and savior. All my life, I've had to remind people who hate my body that I can and I will hurt them back for the violence they're enacting against my humanity. All my life, I've had to be the only one to convince myself to keep living in a world that seeks to destroy my self-esteem, fukk with my sanity, and make me question my right to exist.

I want to be left alone. I want to walk through a store without questioning why I'm being stared at. I want to hear roars of laughter and not immediately assume it's about me. I want people to stop expecting my attention because they think complimenting my fat body is revolutionary. I want to be myself without being on a stage for voyeurism all the time. I want to unclench my fists and relax when I walk into spaces instead of expecting pain and regret. I want to be free more than anything. I want to feel safe in my Black fat femme body.
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:dahell:i would have killed this bytch

@Trill Russell are we sure this is a woman?
 
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Chelsea Bridge said:
I agree with her. The only time I will talk to someone overweight about losing weight is when they tell me they want to lose weight and I'll ask them about their goals and exercise habits. If they want advice I'll give it but that's as far as I go. I don't see any point in body shaming someone for not looking the way you want them to. Most people who fat shame don't give a damn about that person's health anyway.
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So dieting and weight loss as a health standard is destructive and violent? :mjlol:

So we should stop promoting healthiness as thinness? :comeon:

So healthiness and thinness are "violent beauty standards" that maintain racism? :stopitslime:
 
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