Thick Threads!

Since being involved in body positivity I've come across some pretty ridiculous articles, statements, comments, etc. ( I mean besides the ones I get to hear on a day to day basis. ) Where people talk about HATING fat people and how disgusting it is to be fat. Which makes me sad for those people,  they are so pathetic and uneducated that they rather look around at other people and judge them based on their body size than go home read a book and educate themselves on the topic they HATE so much to at least realize why it is that they have this hate towards fat. Choosing to hate someone takes a lot of energy don’t you think? and to solely hate someone because they are overweight is pretty ridiculous not to mention it says a lot about a person I automatically don’t want to have anything to do with these people.

There are actually people who have said that they would rather have a physically disabled friend than a fat friend, or men who would rather date a recovering drug addict than a fat woman.

what the hell does that mean anyway? What does it matter if your friends are physically disabled, fat or recovering drug addicts? How about you just like someone because they are a good person, good friend, someone you just like being around because they are awesome?

Meghan from Project life size talks about it in this youtube video which is what got me started on this topic anyway.

There are so many men and women who like big women, find them attractive but wouldn’t be caught dead with them because they are embarrassed of what their friends would say, or what some stranger they don’t care about in the first place would say about him or her dating a fat girl. First let me say, if you are a guy or girl who is into a fat girl and the reason you’re not with her is because your friends and strangers might pick on you, then why be friends with people like that at all? Why have SUCH a WEAK personally to the point of being manipulated out of happiness?
Now do you think that fat people would not be looked at as disgusting or hated on if we were portrayed differently in the media?

For example: In the movie Bridesmaids all of the girls are thin, pretty, girly, sexy except the one fat chick, she is the manly, disgusting, farting one who doesn't know how to be any of the things the pretty skinny girls are. What if one of the thin girls got that role instead? or what if the sexy female role in the transformers movies was a thick girl? or any leading love interest movie role for that matter. To make the thick girl the attractive woman and not the awkward weird one.

I’m not saying that all fat people should be seen as attractive from this point on, that’s not for me to decide. People have to decide for themselves what they find attractive and what not, I’m saying that hating someone because of their size is not a reason to hate someone.
Would fat people still be hated and seen as disgusting by shallow and pathetic people if the media decided to stop making fat women the ugly, embarrassing ones in movies, tv shows, etc? I think that most of the fat hating people don't even really know why they hate fat people besides the fact that they are unable to think for themselves and are told to do so by media.


I end this note with an awesome paragraph I ran across on tumblr:

Oh, but this is not a matter of “glorifying” obesity. Glorifying obesity would take multiple TV shows depicting fat folks riding unicorns and devouring warm pies whilst counting the bags of money they’ve gained from being fat. Indeed, if simply putting fat people on television was enough to “glorify” obesity, then The Biggest Loser should have done the trick years ago. It hasn’t, because The Biggest Loser is a show built on the humiliation and punishment (self-inflicted or otherwise) of fat people. When we say that putting fat people on television will “glorify” their bodies, what we really mean is that we are uncomfortable giving fat people any attention that is not overtly negative. Because fat people need to be told: don’t be fat. Being fat means you are not entitled to a normal life. Being fat means you are not entitled to love. Being fat means you are not entitled to humanity, much less dignity.

— http://www.fatshionista.com/ (via thefatvocaloid)

Over and Out,

A_Riot