r/fatlogic

There's a subset of fat women, especially fat white women (which OOP/Purple is), who refuse to fathom that there are a myriad number of body and appearance-based issues and insecurities that a thin woman could have that's completely unrelated to fatness, but unlike fatness, is not modifiable through lifestyle changes and decreased consumption alone (such as race, being mocked for certain innate facial features, hair loss, hair texture, nose shape, height, etc).

And this isn't even strictly limited to minorities, but I literally knew thin white girls and women when I was growing up who, despite their thinness, were bullied and harassed relentlessly for being too tall, too gangly, having shoulders that were too high, having a face that wasn't considered conventionally attractive, amongst an assortment of other traits beyond their control.

However, unlike their fatter counterparts, the traits they were bullied for weren't modifiable through lifestyle changes and changes in eating patterns.

People saying whether something is flattering or not is not an act of "fatphobic" meanness. It's so silly, minor and pointless that they're getting hot and bothered over this.

Being fat is NOT rebellious, especially when most people in the U.S where this person is from are overweight or obese and obesity is normalized. Obesity must not be normalized and romanticized too. Being anti-obesity is not reinforcing the patriarchy, misogyny, capitalism, fascism and discrimination.

It's so ironic that they believe being fat is some brave act of resistance against capitalism when obesity and overconsumption junk power big companies like Nestle, Coca-Cola and McDonalds.

This was below a short about racism and ai had nothing to do with fat people

From an FA fatfluencer IG Reel about the "pain tax" that comes with being fat (transcript version to comply with sub rules).

I think the unspoken issue that's being completely omitted is how much of this "pain tax" is self-imposed and directly stems from the fatness itself.

OOP implies that this tax is something inflicted on them by larger society, but refuses to acknowledge how much of it is a result of lifestyle choices that prioritize consumption and staying fat over general day-to-day functioning and flexibility.

To be honest, I’m not sure how much I agree with the statements that if you were previously against weight loss/pro-fat liberation or whatever, then a mea culpa is warranted, or that you owe other people an explanation of how (or why) you’re losing weight. I lean towards no, but I’m not a public figure myself and have never taken anything that FAs/fat influencers have said to be gospel, so I’d appreciate other people’s perspective on this.

I’m glad I know now that weight gain isn’t inevitable.

Even at 60 metabolism only slows down like 1% each year…It’s the lifestyle changes that get people.

I’m pretty short, so when I saw this number I figured I’d get the bmi to compare it, since I know it would be obese at my height. But even at 5’7” it’s still overweight. Obviously that’s not massively fat, but that seems like a fairly reasonable ‘fat’ weight to use in a show, especially considering the time period where everyone wanted to be ridiculously skinny.

Definitely not the worst thing I’ve seen, but I thought it was an interesting representation of fatness in the 90s vs now.