Kiss my fat ass

So last week I posted the hand-written cover letter to the packet of materials my father wrote to admonish me about my obesity problem. Continuing in that vein, I want to show you that my father included about four (yes, four) different BMI charts, some from the early 1990’s and even earlier. Here’s the kicker… MOST of the materials my father sent me are from pharmaceutical companies that sell weight loss pills (none of which have been shown to work in the long term, and may in fact do more to jeopardize ones health). Not to mention I sent him a fully peer-reviewed study the last time he told me I was unhealthy about the various BENEFITS of gluteofemoral fat, which explain my low cholesterol and healthy blood sugar etc. He didn’t even listen, and replied with these truly feeble materials. And he is an endocrinologist, a supposed “scientist” who doesn’t understand the basics of scientific research. Also that explains why he doesn’t believe in evolution. My father is a complete turd. But I actually think that’s offensive to turds. 

My father, concern troll extraordinaire, has been the bane of my existence my whole life. For some context, he is a racist, misogynist pig. He has also been obese his whole life until very recently, when after his 3rd heart attack, he was in an induced coma for about 6 weeks. He probably would not have survived if he had NOT been obese. Anyways, he lost a bunch of weight, and now feels qualified to give weight loss advice.

I stopped speaking with him sometime last year because he objected to my decision to study evolutionary biology and I got tired of him telling me that I needed more muslim friends. He also said I shouldn’t date anyone “working class” because I guess even though he comes from a backwards village in South Asia he thinks he is descended from royalty.

After months with absolutely no contact, I saw him at my sister’s home. His first words to me were “have you had your blood sugar checked? You’re obese.” And then he proceeded to admonish me about the health effects of obesity. My mother told him that I was completely healthy, and I tried to read him a paper about the dubious reliability of BMI. He wouldn’t listen. I then insulted him and refused to talk to him. He told my sisters that the reason I’m avoiding him is because he is telling me “the hard truth” (because apparently the only reason fat people are fat is becasue they’ve never heard about the “risks” of obesity). Anyways, he’s a narcissistic troll and everything about him is wrong.

So several months after our last exchange, I randomly got a package in the mail from him. It included several pages of outdated materials on obesity. It included ZERO peer-reviewed articles. I am going to reveal and obliterate this travesty with you all over the next few days. Here is his introductory letter:

Dear (misspelled my name),

Hope you are well. I am too.

You have a health problem with obesity, whether you like it or not. I have been treating obese people for last 30 years.

I am herewith enclosing materials on healthy eating and obesity. Read it, learn it and grow. It will help you all your life. Don’t neglect.

I am sending the same material to my cardiologist, Dr. _____. He wants to learn how to treat his weight problem.

Good luck

Loving,

Abbu

Kiss my fat ass: Unapologetic Fatty block list

icantpickafuckingusername:

bumsquash:

unapologeticfatty:

In case anyone is interested, here’s a list of all the blogs I have blocked for being triggering, rude or body shaming assholes. Make your tags a happier place! Since it’s a pretty substaintial list, I’m putting it under a ‘read more’

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Oh my goodness, that response was actually disgusting.
Preaching that they have nothing to offer because they’ve got ‘horrible personalities’ and then you say “hopefully they’ll kill themselves”, yes because that screams inner beauty.

Until last night I did not realize what a horrible lot a majority of the ‘fatspo’ community were and now I keep just being appalled further and further.

You ladies do not sound confident, you sound like bullies. You have no true grounds to dislike the thin folk so you insult them purely on their size which is exactly what your movement is supposed to be against.
Shame shame shame. Why do people feel the need to shoot other people down to feel good about themselves? I bet any money it’s not even effective. 

Right, because criticizing thin people who hate fat people is the same as criticizing ALL THIN PEOPLE. That would only be true if all thin people hated fat people. No one is thin-shaming. We are fatphobe-shaming. And considering how much shit we all get from them, you only show how ignorant you are by trying to portray them as victims. If you are offended, it’s probably because you hate fat people too but don’t want anyone to point out why people like you are so threatened by fat acceptance. You try to make yourselves into the victims instead. But go ahead, be more offended by fat acceptance than fat hate, that seems reasonable to me.

(via fatanarchy)

sleepydumpling:

fionabearclaw:

cybele, 6000 bce

But wait!  Fat people didn’t exist before the 1980’s!

But the thin standard has existed forever! And male dominance is natural! Until recently women were universally subjugated, so you should be really grateful for how things are now and stop complaining! Ahhh, historical revisionism and the injustice it breeds. 

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Comedy is tragedy plus time: I hate when guys say they'd prefer a chubby girl over a thin girl.

housewifeswag:

dreamsandwhispers:

the2ndsaint:

trisbee:

sleeplesssolitude:

I bet if we put a chubby girl and a thin girl in front of them, they’d go for the thin one. So don’t fucking say it just to make girls feel better, if you’re not going to stick to your own…

^^^^^This makes me so sad…and you’re definitely wrong, you can limit the definition of “chubby” to whatever arbitrary limit but in fact there are plenty of men that are turned off by skinny girls, just find nothing sexually appealing about them and yes they may have an upper weight limit but what you’re saying is that to men thinner is always better and preferable which is bullshit, some don’t like women who are less than 250 lbs and can’t get enough of the rolls and you implying that’s only some creepy corner of the internet is false because it’s fairly common. I mean, it’s stigmatized because of people saying exactly like what you said which is just fucked up. I hope you realize how offensive you are being. Maybe the real issue is that you simply can’t see the beauty in a larger figure, and believe men can’t either. Or maybe you don’t know very many men of color, or men who are not brainwashed. I dunno, but this is negative as fuck.

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misohead:

new study finds 46% of obese people are metabolically healthy

stfuconservatives:

horrificcupcake:

oliverhyde:

have shared it before, will share it again

and again, and again, and again

until it finally sinks in

Will never not reblog until people start to get this. Get over your fatphobia- it’d be healthier for everyone.

So you can put away your “it’s just I don’t think we should be supporting unhealthy lifestyles” BS now.

Not that it matters if we are healthy or not because we deserve respect and basic human decency regardless of our health. But still, this is really important. :)

Will reblog again and again and again

(via fuckyoufatshamers)

veeisaghostlyneutralname:

PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST! I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF THE FAT ACTIVIST COMMUNITY TRYING TO MAKE ITSELF A SAFE SPACE AND THEN WE HAVE THESE FUCKING ASSHOLE OUTSIDERS INFILTRATE IT, TRYING TO DEHUMANIZE AND OBJECTIFY OUR BODIES AND USE THEM FOR THEIR OWN BULLSHIT. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS.

It seems that there are a number of spam blogs showing up in the fatshion tag. They take pictures of fat people that they have stolen from peoples’ personal blogs (I’ve most often seen a picture of someone in a fatkini standing in the ocean giving two thumbs up) and post them along with “thinspiration” images among other images of thin bodies, and links that say things like “get in shape” which lead to a site selling a weight-loss product. At first I thought this was just one asshole stealing fat peoples’ pictures and using them for “thinspiration” and to sell weight loss products. But I’ve been seeing this more and more and I’m realizing that this is being done by MULTIPLE blogs. I’m going to start keeping an eye out for these blogs and I will keep them on a list here. I ask that everyone PLEASE block these blogs and report them for spam. Also, I want anyone who sees a spam blog like this OR any other person infiltrating the fatshion tag and making it unsafe for us to add to the list and/or message me so I can add the blog to the list. I will add more as I find them.

BLOCK & REPORT FOR SPAM: 
(TRIGGER WARNING FOR “THINSPIRATION,” FAT HATRED AND/OR EATING DISORDERS AT ANY OF THESE)
(do this at tumblr.com/block)
janiecexmdoretta 
danelledwapolonia 
randellgsnenita  

Fuck these people so hard

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bumsquash:

I had to reblog this comment from a fat nutritionist post on Jennifer Livingston;

Here’s an interesting thought experiment. Go through the article and replace “fat people” with drug addicts and “obesity” with drug addiction and see if you have the same emotional response while reading it. I’ll start:

Telling drug addicts that they are bad examples for daring to have jobs and exist in public spaces is eliminationist rhetoric – it suggests that drug addicts have no place in this world, that they need to just go away, hide at home with the lights off, and sober up until they are fit to be seen in public again.

Fuck that. Drug addicts exist, we have existed, we will continue to exist. We have as much right to this world, and our jobs, and the public eye, as anyone else.

Our bodies and the status of our health are not public property. Our existence is not open to debate or discussion. We are here, and our health is between us and the people to whom we’ve given informed consent to make judgments about it. It is not a handy club for you to beat us with. And if you cared one iota for drug addicts’ health, you would shut the fuck up and let us handle our business. The constant pressure and questioning and needling and harassment drug addicts get from family, friends, coworkers, neighbours, and perfect strangers all combines to create stigma, and that stigma materially hurts people’s health.

Ragen had something brilliant to say:

Everybody has the right exist in the body they have without shame, stigma or oppression. That right is inalienable and not yours to confer. This is not up for discussion, debate, or vote. There are no other valid opinions. Drug addicts have the right to exist in the bodies we have now. Period.

Next time you are concerned about a drug addict’s health, consider that the best thing you might do for them is to treat them like capable adults and let them sort it out for themselves. Don’t add to the unhealthy storm of negativity and pressure and fear-mongering that is already surrounding them.

Leaving aside the totally false comparing of being fat with drug addiction. What’s funny about this to me and some of the other commenters is, this sounds perfectly fine anyhow! I’d include the highlighted parts. The assumption from the writer is everyone believes demonizing people addicted to drugs, is some kind of good thing.

Something that is so far from what I think and those around me-yes, people hate drugs, but not those addicted to them- that I’d actually got the impression that only a vocal minority still thought this way.

Until I got to the internet. Then I realized some people take this as an article of faith. That drug addicts must be senselessly marginalized, shamed and hated.

It’s as if some people need “villains”, in order to make themselves feel as pure and righteous as they want to.

They need some group any group to offload and pour scorn on to, regardless of the cost to that group and the overspill of that harm to society. Moreso if it that can be kept more to disadvantaged groups, no doubt.

How much do these people cost us all? Are the authorities calculating that and issuing statistics for us to browbeat present them with?

Of course not!

That’s why judgmental morally superior types are literally the worst of all kinds of people, because they are INCAPABLE of empathy, they cannot see any bad in themselves and any good in others, and they are extremely narcissistic believing that they and only they have all the right answers. Demonizing others makes it easy for them to justify marginalizing and oppressing them, and the most fucked up thing is that we are supposed to be “grateful” for their abuse because they are “saving” us. They perform all kinds of mental gymnastics to avoid the reality that they are the evil ones.