#anti fat bias

[fatliberation]

they have a point though. you wouldn't need everyone to accommodate you if you just lost weight, but you're too lazy to stick to a healthy diet and exercise. it's that simple. I'd like to see you back up your claims, but you have no proof. you have got to stop lying to yourselves and face the facts

Must I go through this again? Fine. FINE. You guys are working my nerves today. You want to talk about facing the facts? Let's face the fucking facts.

In 2022, the US market cap of the weight loss industry was $75 billion [1, 3]. In 2021, the global market cap of the weight loss industry was estimated at $224.27 billion [2]. 

In 2020, the market shrunk by about 25%, but rebounded and then some since then [1, 3] By 2030, the global weight loss industry is expected to be valued at $405.4 billion [2]. If diets really worked, this industry would fall overnight. 

1. LaRosa, J. March 10, 2022. "U.S. Weight Loss Market Shrinks by 25% in 2020 with Pandemic, but Rebounds in 2021." Market Research Blog. 2. Staff. February 09, 2023. "[Latest] Global Weight Loss and Weight Management Market Size/Share Worth." Facts and Factors Research. 3. LaRosa, J. March 27, 2023. "U.S. Weight Loss Market Partially Recovers from the Pandemic." Market Research Blog.

Over 50 years of research conclusively demonstrates that virtually everyone who intentionally loses weight by manipulating their eating and exercise habits will regain the weight they lost within 3-5 years. And 75% will actually regain more weight than they lost [4].

4. Mann, T., Tomiyama, A.J., Westling, E., Lew, A.M., Samuels, B., Chatman, J. (2007). "Medicare’s Search For Effective Obesity Treatments: Diets Are Not The Answer." The American Psychologist, 62, 220-233. U.S. National Library of Medicine, Apr. 2007.

The annual odds of a fat person attaining a so-called “normal” weight and maintaining that for 5 years is approximately 1 in 1000 [5].

5. Fildes, A., Charlton, J., Rudisill, C., Littlejohns, P., Prevost, A.T., & Gulliford, M.C. (2015). “Probability of an Obese Person Attaining Normal Body Weight: Cohort Study Using Electronic Health Records.” American Journal of Public Health, July 16, 2015: e1–e6.

Doctors became so desperate that they resorted to amputating parts of the digestive tract (bariatric surgery) in the hopes that it might finally result in long-term weight-loss. Except that doesn’t work either. [6] And it turns out it causes death [7],  addiction [8], malnutrition [9], and suicide [7].

6. Magro, Daniéla Oliviera, et al. “Long-Term Weight Regain after Gastric Bypass: A 5-Year Prospective Study - Obesity Surgery.” SpringerLink, 8 Apr. 2008. 7. Omalu, Bennet I, et al. “Death Rates and Causes of Death After Bariatric Surgery for Pennsylvania Residents, 1995 to 2004.” Jama Network, 1 Oct. 2007.  8. King, Wendy C., et al. “Prevalence of Alcohol Use Disorders Before and After Bariatric Surgery.” Jama Network, 20 June 2012.  9. Gletsu-Miller, Nana, and Breanne N. Wright. “Mineral Malnutrition Following Bariatric Surgery.” Advances In Nutrition: An International Review Journal, Sept. 2013.

Evidence suggests that repeatedly losing and gaining weight is linked to cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and altered immune function [10].

10. Tomiyama, A Janet, et al. “Long‐term Effects of Dieting: Is Weight Loss Related to Health?” Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6 July 2017.

Prescribed weight loss is the leading predictor of eating disorders [11].

11. Patton, GC, et al. “Onset of Adolescent Eating Disorders: Population Based Cohort Study over 3 Years.” BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.), 20 Mar. 1999.

The idea that “obesity” is unhealthy and can cause or exacerbate illnesses is a biased misrepresentation of the scientific literature that is informed more by bigotry than credible science [12]. 

12. Medvedyuk, Stella, et al. “Ideology, Obesity and the Social Determinants of Health: A Critical Analysis of the Obesity and Health Relationship” Taylor & Francis Online, 7 June 2017.

“Obesity” has no proven causative role in the onset of any chronic condition [13, 14] and its appearance may be a protective response to the onset of numerous chronic conditions generated from currently unknown causes [15, 16, 17, 18].

13. Kahn, BB, and JS Flier. “Obesity and Insulin Resistance.” The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Aug. 2000. 14. Cofield, Stacey S, et al. “Use of Causal Language in Observational Studies of Obesity and Nutrition.” Obesity Facts, 3 Dec. 2010.  15. Lavie, Carl J, et al. “Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Risk Factor, Paradox, and Impact of Weight Loss.” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 26 May 2009.  16. Uretsky, Seth, et al. “Obesity Paradox in Patients with Hypertension and Coronary Artery Disease.” The American Journal of Medicine, Oct. 2007.  17. Mullen, John T, et al. “The Obesity Paradox: Body Mass Index and Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Nonbariatric General Surgery.” Annals of Surgery, July 2005. 18. Tseng, Chin-Hsiao. “Obesity Paradox: Differential Effects on Cancer and Noncancer Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.” Atherosclerosis, Jan. 2013.

Fatness was associated with only 1/3 the associated deaths that previous research estimated and being “overweight” conferred no increased risk at all, and may even be a protective factor against all-causes mortality relative to lower weight categories [19].

19. Flegal, Katherine M. “The Obesity Wars and the Education of a Researcher: A Personal Account.” Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, 15 June 2021.

Studies have observed that about 30% of so-called “normal weight” people are “unhealthy” whereas about 50% of so-called “overweight” people are “healthy”. Thus, using the BMI as an indicator of health results in the misclassification of some 75 million people in the United States alone [20]. 

20. Rey-López, JP, et al. “The Prevalence of Metabolically Healthy Obesity: A Systematic Review and Critical Evaluation of the Definitions Used.” Obesity Reviews : An Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 15 Oct. 2014.

While epidemiologists use BMI to calculate national obesity rates (nearly 35% for adults and 18% for kids), the distinctions can be arbitrary. In 1998, the National Institutes of Health lowered the overweight threshold from 27.8 to 25—branding roughly 29 million Americans as fat overnight—to match international guidelines. But critics noted that those guidelines were drafted in part by the International Obesity Task Force, whose two principal funders were companies making weight loss drugs [21].

21. Butler, Kiera. “Why BMI Is a Big Fat Scam.” Mother Jones, 25 Aug. 2014. 

Body size is largely determined by genetics [22].

22. Wardle, J. Carnell, C. Haworth, R. Plomin. “Evidence for a strong genetic influence on childhood adiposity despite the force of the obesogenic environment” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Vol. 87, No. 2, Pages 398-404, February 2008.

Healthy lifestyle habits are associated with a significant decrease in mortality regardless of baseline body mass index [23].  

23. Matheson, Eric M, et al. “Healthy Lifestyle Habits and Mortality in Overweight and Obese Individuals.” Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 25 Feb. 2012.

Weight stigma itself is deadly. Research shows that weight-based discrimination increases risk of death by 60% [24].

24. Sutin, Angela R., et al. “Weight Discrimination and Risk of Mortality .” Association for Psychological Science, 25 Sept. 2015.

Fat stigma in the medical establishment [25] and society at large arguably [26] kills more fat people than fat does [27, 28, 29].

25. Puhl, Rebecca, and Kelly D. Bronwell. “Bias, Discrimination, and Obesity.” Obesity Research, 6 Sept. 2012. 26. Engber, Daniel. “Glutton Intolerance: What If a War on Obesity Only Makes the Problem Worse?” Slate, 5 Oct. 2009.  27. Teachman, B. A., Gapinski, K. D., Brownell, K. D., Rawlins, M., & Jeyaram, S. (2003). Demonstrations of implicit anti-fat bias: The impact of providing causal information and evoking empathy. Health Psychology, 22(1), 68–78. 28. Chastain, Ragen. “So My Doctor Tried to Kill Me.” Dances With Fat, 15 Dec. 2009. 29. Sutin, Angelina R, Yannick Stephan, and Antonio Terraciano. “Weight Discrimination and Risk of Mortality.” Psychological Science, 26 Nov. 2015.

There's my "proof." Where is yours?

#inbox #fat liberation #fat acceptance #fat activism #anti fatness #anti fat bias #anti diet #resources #facts #weight science #save

[veggiesforpresident]

so i'm reading "you just need to lose weight" by aubrey gordon and she's talking about the whole "glorifying obesity!" rhetoric and how its rooted in anti-fat, like, disgust, and its making me think about how it would be funny to comment on a thin person's insta "don't you think you're glorifying thinness?" except i realized. yeah they literally are. every body check "thirst trap" or diet advice tiktok someone makes IS literally glorifying thinness as the ideal.

#anti fat bias #fatphobia

[maryannaugerbooks]

Authors, we have to be careful when we describe the evil, less-intelligent, or gross characters as fat. Being fat is not a bad thing. But when your only fat character is the gross shopkeeper, it just reinforces the message that fat = bad. It's not something we always do consciously, we just have to be more vigilant so we don't perpetuate negative stereotypes

#fatphobia #weight stigma #anti fat bias #writers #authors #writeblr #writer #writing

[sitronsangbody]

I don't care if you don't want to date fat people. I definitely recommend asking yourself some questions and unwrapping what that is about, because it's not not a red flag - but let's face it, a whole lot of people are gonna land quickly on "I'm just not attracted to fat bodies tbh" and even more people aren't even gonna question it. And, from the bottom of my heart: whatever. I'd much rather you just leave fat people alone than date a fat person just to prove you're not superficial.

However:

- if you're not interested in dating fat people, keep that shit to yourself. Don't contribute to the taboo against loving fat people in any way.

- if you are attracted to fat people (and not in a fetishistic way, but a seeing-the-whole-person-and-digging-it kind of way) show it. Say it. All of us on earth need that to be more visible and normalised.

- if you're attracted to fat people, or a specific fat person, and you feel ashamed of it, WORK ON THAT without burdening that person or other fat people with it.

- if you love someone who isn't fat, may I remind you: they could become fat. If you find that idea upsetting, DEFINITELY WORK ON THAT.

#musings #fat liberation #anti fat bias #relationships

[onewingednatu]

I am so tired of how fatphobia is inescapable. You could be playing a video game, watching a movie, hell- even AT THE GYM or at a HOSPITAL and you'll encounter/hear fatphobia.

I was watching a CallMeKevin video right? I like the guy. The game he's playing is Bitlife. Something happens in the game that's like, "Wearing sunglasses will increase your looks!" And he cracks a joke at that, that's fine.

But THEN, he uses a fucking filter to make himself look fat with sunglasses, and jokingly asks if he looks good yet.

Are. You. FUCKING. Kidding me.

Because ha ha look everyone, a fat person thinking they're attractive is the FUNNIEST thing, isn't it??? Because fat=ugly in society! Why? Because media and drug sellers say so!

I am so goddamn tired.

#fatphobia #kevin i love you but youre starting to step into je/rma territory of fatphobia #you just cant escape it #fat liberation #anti fat bias

[skippydiesposting]

okay jfc I have to write a post about why the idea of "intuitive eating" rubs me the wrong way as a solution to eating disorders

not saying that it can't be a helpful tool in getting people back in touch with their bodies and unlearning certain lessons of diet culture, but I think it still enforces the societal harm that is weight stigma and discrimination. Here's why:

1. Intuitive eating still moralizes food in a hugely uncomfortable way. The whole basis of intuitive eating is centered on the idea that "if you let yourself eat the 'bad food', eventually you will start to crave the 'good food'!"

There are no bad or good foods. They are all just food. The food you eat in your everyday life is not medicine, nor is it poison, no matter what food it is. Your body needs sugar. Your body needs carbs. Your body needs fats. It's just food. It's just a way to get nutrients into your body. There's no wrong way to eat.

2. Intuitive eating still moralizes body size and implies that thinness is the correct goal. One aspect of intuitive eating is the sometimes unspoken implication that "once you learn how to eat correctly, you might not lose weight...but maybe you will, which would be great!"

In practice this is still praising weight loss, even if it's unintentional weight loss rather than intentional. It still gives the message that thinness is superior to fatness, and that thinness is a healthy ideal to strive for. Like this essay says, "Celebrating weight loss, even when it is a result of intuitive eating and having more compassion for your body, is still a commitment to thinness and still perpetuates fatphobia and diet culture."

3. Intuitive eating puts too much emphasis on hunger and hunger cues. There's the idea that once you "learn how to eat better", your hunger cues will fall into place and you'll "only eat when you're actually hungry". But guess what? You need to eat even if you're not hungry.

There are so many people who no longer, or might have never had, completely functioning satiety signals. People who have spent so long doing dieting or restrictive eating or battling eating disorders, but also people who suffer from illness or chronic disabilities which might affect the regulation of hunger cues. Some people will never feel hungry. But they still need to eat.

I've heard far too many people say that they don't eat breakfast/lunch/et cetera because they aren't hungry in the morning. As someone with a form of dysautonomia who becomes completely nonfunctional if I don't eat frequently, this attitude gets under my skin. Food is not about desire--or not entirely, as I'll get to later in the post--or about what you want to do. Food is crucial, full stop, no matter what.

I think the fatphobic myth that weight is tied to health and is something that can be controlled has created this idea of food as something optional, something that is purely driven by desire. Diet culture has made us believe that eating is simultaneously an Evil™ force that can control you and take over your body while simultaneously praising behavior of restriction, and at its heart restriction is about choice. Eating is not a choice. Eating is an entirely mandatory, necessary part of life, the same way that sleeping is. It's regulatory. It keeps you alive. The best thing you can do for your body is eat regularly and consistently.

Sometimes it's really fucking hard to eat when you don't have an appetite, or when you're nauseous. I completely understand that. Just like it's really fucking hard to sleep when you have insomnia. But you still have to do it. Eating is not optional; it's not something you do when you want to. It needs to happen regularly, every day. It's a very basic part of being a human being with a body, and no matter the state of that body, it needs to be fed.

You don't need to feel hungry to eat. Some people will never feel hungry, and they still need to eat. And it's also okay to eat without hunger, even if your basic needs of satiation and nutrition have been met. This leads me to my next point:

4. Intuitive eating puts too much emphasis on "mindful" eating. By continuing to constantly monitor and overthink your own eating behavior, it becomes a chore; it becomes a pattern of overattention and scrupulousity; it becomes something moralized, the same way that it is moralized in diet culture.

By all means, we should all try to be more mindful and intentional in our lives. But eating is just a basic fact of life. We don't consider whether we're "mindfully" sleeping, or "mindfully" taking a shower. Eating is just a part of your day, just something you need to do, and I don't think we have to focus every moment of our attention thinking about what food is wrong or right to be eating, or how we're eating it. In fact, I think everyone deserves to be mindless sometimes: everyone deserves to zone out in front of the TV, or get sucked into a video game. And that includes mindlessly eating.

In addition to being something basic and mandatory about having a human body, eating is one of the great pleasures of life, like sex or sleep. And like those things, it's completely fine if you just want to snack! For no other reason besides desire! In absence of hunger or satiety, eating can be something completely neutral and comforting. Eating can be a form of stimming for sensory seeking people; it can be fun; it can be used as a way of connecting other people. In fact, eating with other people is one of the things that induces oxytocin--known as the "love hormone"--in our brains, along with sex, childbirth, lactation, and singing with other people.

Telling people to be "mindful" when eating has the same flavor as the ways we treat drugs or alcohol in our society: "drink responsibly". "Eat mindfully". As if food is actually something that could harm us, rather than simply being the nutrients that keep us alive.

I really don't think that teaching people to overthink their food choices or behaviors is going to help anyone. Instead it needs to be clear that there are no morals attached to eating, nor the foods themselves. Eat when you need to. And also, eat when you want to. Eat for fun, for connection with other people, for pleasure, for sensory stimulation. Eat without thinking about it. That's the only way you can normalize it.

You don't need to eat in the "right way". There is no "right way". You just need to eat.

ALSO: this is meant for everybody, not just people who struggle with eating disorders or have been harmed by diet culture, but this is ESPECIALLY for fat people. Fat people are shamed constantly for the extremely natural and necessary practice of eating regardless of their actual eating habits, and I fully believe that unless we center fat people and their experiences in the anti-diet conversation, we will be trapped in the same horror of moralizing bodies, food, and basic humans needs that we have been for centuries.

YOU ARE ALLOWED TO EAT. No matter what.

#woah that got long #i just have a lot of screaming to do about this i guess #fat liberation #fatphobia #tw eating disorders #diet culture #intuitive eating #anti fat bias

[softandorsweet]

just ~ if you haven’t listened to the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back GO DO IT!!! it’s a group of Fat liberationist discussing everything fatness and anti-fatness. plus they all exist with multiple marginalizations, most hosts are queer and trans. it’s so brilliant i’ll never get over it!!!! god

#unsolicited: fatties talk back #fat liberation #fat #fatness #antifatness #anti fatness #anti fat bias #fatphobia #fatphobic #trans #queer #da’shaun l harrison #da’shaun harrison #marquisele mercedes #mikey mercedes #caleb luna #bryan guffey #jordan underwood

[librarychair]

When I was in preschool, the teacher started putting everyone's age on their nametag specifically because of me. Because when I was three, I was the size of a five year old, and other parents expressed concern when they saw what they thought was a five year old acting like a three year old. Every class photo from then until high school, I'm the tallest one in the class, sometimes by a wide margin. Adults routinely mistook me for being older than I was. I'm still trying to unpack what kind of effect that had on me. Was it ableism? Was it anti fat bias? What was it?

I grew up with a deep sense of shame about my body, about being too big, too much, and the feeling that being smart was the only worthwhile thing about me. I wanted to be invisible, I wanted to be a brain in a jar. I was bullied a lot, mostly not violently, but frequently. I was the go-to person to ask out as a joke in middle and high school. I became distrustful and suspicious of everyone my own age, other than my one close friend who constantly condescended to me. I have come close to ending my life several times. Much of my childhood and twenties were defined by a deep and abiding hatred of myself.

Now I feel strongly connected to my body, most of it anyway, even though those memories and feelings are still inside me. I have a personal resolve to stay alive so I get the chance to experience being someone who wants to live, even if sometimes I'm not that person. I have a resolve to find value in my own enjoyment of life. I'm trying to be honest about how much space I take up, and my particular physical needs that are above and beyond those smaller or more abled than myself. I've found a lot of hope in the knowledge that I'm just a regular person, and not obligated to sacrifice my will to live to any moral standard. I want to live, and I deserve to live just as much as anyone else.

#fatphobia #ableism #anti fat bias #personal

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

I ordered a one piece swimsuit I’m really excited about but the sizing fucked with my brain because my waist measurement was 3 sizes up from the rest of my measurements and it’s just hard to be reminded that my body is built in a way that society views as unacceptable.

And like, I am eating healthy, I’m fairly active, and my goal was to do those things independently of their impact on my weight, and I am! And they do help me feel better physically. But it’s hard because there’s this cultural attitude of “well if you’re fat and you say you do these things, you must be lying.” And it’s like, I didn’t ask for this input, I don’t want to participate, and Yet

#anti fat bias #weight tw #body image tw

[haleypukanski]

#writing #fat liberation #climate justice #climate action #food sovereignty #landback #decolonisation #anti fat bias #sizeism #disability justice #2023

[fatliberation]

I totally understand and can empathize with fat activists when it comes to medical fatphobia. But I do think its important to provide nuance to this topic.

A lot of doctors mention weight loss, particularly for elective surgeries, because it makes the recovery process easier (Particularly with keeping sutures in place) and anesthetic safer.

I feel like its still important to mention those things when advocating for fat folks. Safety is important.

What you're talking about is actually a different topic altogether - the previous ask was not about preparing for surgery, it was about dieting being the only treatment option for anon's chronic pain, which was exacerbating their ed symptoms. Diets have been proven over and over again to be unsustainable (and are the leading predictor of eating disorders). So yeah, I felt that it was an inappropriate prescription informed more by bias than actual data.

(And side note: This study on chronic pain and obesity concluded that weight change was not associated with changes of pain intensity.)

If you want to discuss the risk factor for surgery, sure, I think that's an important thing to know - however, most fat people already know this and are informed by their doctors and surgeons of what the risks are beforehand, so I'm not really concerned about people being uninformed about it.

I'm a fat liberation activist, and what I'm concerned about is bias. I'm concerned that there are so many BMI cutoffs in essential surgeries for fat patients, when weight loss is hardly feasible, that creates a barrier to care that disproportionately affects marginalized people with intersecting identities.

It's also important to know that we have very little data around the outcomes of surgery for fat folks that isn't bariatric weight loss surgery.

A new systematic review by researchers in Sydney, Australia, published in the journal Clinical Obesity, suggests that weight loss diets before elective surgery are ineffective in reducing postoperative complications.

CADTH Health Technology Review Body Mass Index as a Measure of Obesity and Cut-Off for Surgical Eligibility made a similar conclusion:

Most studies either found discrepancies between BMI and other measurements or concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support BMI cut-offs for surgical eligibility. The sources explicitly reporting ethical issues related to the use of BMI as a measure of obesity or cut-off for surgical eligibility described concerns around stigma, bias (particularly for racialized peoples), and the potential to create or exacerbate disparities in health care access.

Nicholas Giori MD, PhD Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Stanford University, a respected leader in TKA and THA shared his thoughts in Elective Surgery in Adult Patients with Excess Weight: Can Preoperative Dietary Interventions Improve Surgical Outcomes? A Systematic Review:

“Obesity is not reversible for most patients. Outpatient weight reduction programs average only 8% body weight loss [1, 10, 29]. Eight percent of patients denied surgery for high BMI eventually reach the BMI cutoff and have total joint arthroplasty [28]. Without a reliable pathway for weight loss, we shouldn’t categorically withhold an operation that improves pain and function for patients in all BMI classes [3, 14, 16] to avoid a risk that is comparable to other risks we routinely accept.

It is not clear that weight reduction prior to surgery reduces risk. Most studies on this topic involve dramatic weight loss from bariatric surgery and have had mixed results [13, 19, 21, 22, 24, 27]. Moderate non-surgical weight loss has thus-far not been shown to affect risk [12]. Though hard BMI cutoffs are well-intended, currently-used BMI cutoffs nearly have the effect of arbitrarily rationing care without medical justification. This is because BMI does not strongly predict complications. It is troubling that the effects are actually not arbitrary, but disproportionately affect minorities, women and patients in low socioeconomic classes. I believe that the decision to proceed with surgery should be based on traditional shared-decision making between the patient and surgeon. Different patients and different surgeons have different tolerances to risk and reward. Giving patients and surgeons freedom to determine the balance that is right for them is, in my opinion, the right way to proceed.”

I agree with Dr. Giori on this. And I absolutely do not judge anyone who chooses to lose weight prior to a surgery. It's upsetting that it is the only option right now for things like safe anesthesia. Unfortunately, patients with a history of disordered eating (which is a significant percentage of fat people!) are left out of the conversation. There is certainly risk involved in either option and it sucks. I am always open to nuanced discussion, and the one thing I remain firm in is that weight loss is not the answer long-term. We should be looking for other solutions in treating fat patients and studying how to make surgery safer. A lot of this could be solved with more comprehensive training and new medical developments instead of continuously trying to make fat people less fat.

#inbox #medical fatphobia #sources #surgery #anti fat bias #fat activism #fat liberation

[veggiesforpresident]

obvs there are all kinds of more relevant criticisms of jkr but the other day fb reminded me of that quote where shes like "why is fat the worst thing you can call a woman??" which is fucking rich considering like the 1st page of her first novel she describes the antagonist "waddling". bc hes so fat he cant just... walk. right. lmfao.

#anti fat bias #jk rowling ///

[glitterdustcyclops]

watching a video about the ozempic "trend" and Feeling Some Feelings

but like, and this may be my hottest take, the body positive movement is basically the White Feminism of fat advocacy

until everyone, but especially skinny white feminists, take a real good hard look at the way "body positivity" and "anti-diet culture" is a bandaid over the actual problem of anti-fat bias, which is inextricably linked with the fight for trans rights & disability justice, and that it lets them feel like they are Doing An Activism without actually addressing the root cause of the issue, which again, always goes back to bodily autonomy and also of course, fascism/eugenics, then this problem will literally never get better

#shut up chocolate #im done with humoring White Feminists who only want to stop at the most milquetoast love your body bullshit #this is not helping anything or anyone #please do some actual learning and start advocating for things that will actually help fat people #and trans people and disabled people and nonwhite people etc etc etc #anti fat bias #bodily autonomy

[starlit-mansion]

i do think it's less that people who piss everyone else's pants over seeing a micrometer of body fat on an animated woman can't handle seeing a fat woman irl and more that they fundamentally can't stand the idea that in a fantasy world. anyone would purposefully make a fat or ugly woman.

#it's a different kind of alienation tbh #and a different conversation than 'ACTSHULLY THIS DRAWING HAS NO ROOM FOR HER ORGANS.' #she has no organs. she is pixels. she is an object and i don't care about her wellbeing or treatment. #i care about the fact that my existence is supposed to be scubbed out of an ideal world. don't like that one. for obvious reasons. #anti fat bias

[grandmatapati]

Just reading about the side effects makes me queasy:

"The primary complaints from users of Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro sound like the kind of thing you can fix with a bottle (or three) of Pepto Bismol: nausea, upset stomach, diarrhea, and what one patient called “power vomiting.” But these might be less like classic “side effects” of a drug than a mechanism of weight loss itself, as The Guardian recently reported. By making the feeling of eating (and, in some cases, even hydrating) actively disgusting to the user, the drug curbs their consumption—similar to the experience of bariatric patients, who can only fit a few ounces of food in their stomachs at a time. "

Years ago I read that in response to a survey a startling percentage of women indicated they'd rather be dead than fat. That seems to be the idea behind a lot of medical researchers' response to body fat: get rid of it at any cost to the patient. Quality of life? I guess that seems impossible to doctors and scientists if you're fat. I'm here to tell them it's not. My quality of life is all the better for not having weight loss surgery and, instead, normalizing my relationship with food post-dieting.

#anti fat bias #medical weight loss #medical bias #fat oppression #fatphobia

[mostlyconfident]

To the people making fatphobic arguments…

Please stop listening to diet culture, wellness culture, and anybody who still uses the fucking bmi scale.

Everything you *think* you know about weight is probably incorrect.

I beg of you to listen to the podcast Maintenance Phase- trust me, they’ve done more research than you ever have :)

#fat activism #fat doesn’t equal unhealthy #skinny doesn’t equal healthy #fat phobia #fat shaming #anti fat bias #maintenance phase