broken bodies and things love adjacent

the more educated you get on fat issues the more you realize that almost everything that supposedly justifies fatphobia is actually complete bullshit. most of the health conditions that are treated as almost divine punishment for being fat (like heart issues and diabetes) are being revealed to actually *cause weight gain* instead of being caused *by* it. this goes for social 'consequences' of being fat, too. is that "neckbeard" redditor actually fat because he spends all his time online, or is it that he spends all of his time online because he's not treated like a person if you can see that he's fat, so the internet is his best option? everything is less accessible to fat people. seats on busses, at restaurants, and even at things like amusement parks, are frequently too small to comfortably sit in for a fat person. people treat you worse if you're fat, or even try to avoid you entirely. you get judged for doing leisure activities, or even for exercising at a public gym, (which proves the claims of trying to motivate you to get fit are bullshit btw) getting filmed and laughed at, posted online for your body to be a punchline. if you want to be progressive or body positive you *need* to be examining your beliefs. oppressed people are routinely forced into positions that, from the outside, may justify the narrative about these people. black folk are pushed into poverty, so that crime is often their only means of survival, enforcing the idea that black folk are criminals. queer folk are made unsafe in public so that we use codes to identify each other, enforcing the idea that queer folk are trying to secretly seduce people to be gay. and yes, fat folk are forced indoors and online so that they can enforce the narrative that we are lazy shut-ins.

I want to emphasize how fatphobia is deadly as well. The part in this post about accessibility at amusement parks reminded me of a few years ago when a fat person went to an amusement park and was killed because of the lack of accessibility. Everything in this world is made and designed for thin people, including amusement park rides. The ride attendant still allowed the fat person onto a ride they exceeded the weight limit for, and that fat person plummeted to their death. And yes, fatphobes blamed the fat person instead of the ride attendant and the amusement park.

Fat people have been intentionally murdered by nurses during hurricane Katrina. Eric Garner was killed by racist police brutality, and then his fatness was weaponized by the police officer's defense team as a reason for why his killing shouldn't count as murder. Fat people are abused and neglected by people in the medical field on the daily, which often results in death. Fat children are starved to death by their parents. This society encourages fat people to develop eating disorders and die, like what happened to Cass Elliot. And then those deaths get covered up. Excused. Dismissed. Justified. Literally mocked and laughed at. And I can't stress enough that the examples I'm giving here are only a fraction of the list of examples I could give if my ADHD didn't make writing so difficult.

Please give a shit about fatphobia. You cannot support equality if you continue to believe that fat people should be exempt from an equal world.

-Mod Worthy

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doing a separate post for my sugar cub flag rather than reblog addition:

This is my flag for sugar cubs; gay cubs who are feminine and/or gender non-conforming. The idea is based on my gay cub flag (the symbol in the corner, the 7 stripes), colors you may associate with gay cubs (beige, brown, blue), and colors you may associate with feminity and gender non-conformity (pink and purple).

[Flag Description: Flag with 7 horizontal stripes with colors from top to bottom being baby pink, light blue, beige, light brown, beige, lavender, and pale magenta. There is a small hot pink bear cub paw print in the top left hand corner of the flag that is tilted, with the top part where the claws are at being tilted toward the corner of the flag. End of flag description.]

jack off jill - clear hearts grey flowers spinning cd

feel free to use without credit although it would be appreciated !