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Sorry for the change in tone from my usual posts, but it has to be adressed.
I don't think people should lose visibility - be censored - because they like eating a lot.
I don't think people that are fat should be censored for being fat.
For those who are concerned for the health of others, I believe it is possible to be fat and healthy.
For those that matter, fat fetishism is about getting a body you can be happy with.
@staff Please share the message.
I will now remove my links to my Tumblr account. I do not condone this.
i think what's the most wild about the tumblr ToS change isn't that they specifically named and banned feederism / """encouraged overeating""" but more that they put it specifically under encouraging eating disorders rather than, like, sexual content. like. it's a fetish. it's a sex thing. but they purposefully put it in the same section as like, diagnosable life threatening disorders like anorexia.
obviously what matters is that they basically just put "being positive about fat people" as against ToS so now annoying concern trolling proana types can just mass report anything fatlib related that they don't like. and putting it in the eating disorder category is wayyy easier to use that way, because you can literally just make the argument that any fat liberation adjacent argument is "encouraging fatness" or whatever the fuck
We need to talk about tumblr's systematic fatphobia.
Posts of fat people are being marked as "sexual content" even more frequently than they used to, but now we have this fun little addition as brought to my attention by a friend;
That's right. Not just blatant kink-shaming, but now, if you make posts about or with fat people, you can now be flagged as "promoting disordered eating"! Multiple completely innocent posts of fat people literally just existing in their own bodies have already been flagged this way.
Raise hell about it. Reblog and share fat content more than ever. Don't let this shitty website tell you that your bodies are "wrong" or that you aren't allowed to exist publicly.
Tumblr staff, if you care about eating disorders (you fucking don't), stop promoting this sense of shame and fear and disgust towards the idea of weight gain. Stop shaming and censoring people for posting about their own bodies and experiences. Fatphobia kills. Fatphobia causes disordered eating. Fatphobia is the disease you should be worried about.
This has also been disproportionately affecting fat trans people, because of course it has.
Don't stop talking about it. Don't let this bullshit ceo silence you.