skinny disabled #people you have a duty to not be #fatphobic to disabled fat people or just fatphobic period. do you have any fucking idea how horrible it is to be disabled trying to get a diagnosis and having everything blamed on your weight. do you know how anger inducing it is to have every single (and yes i mean EVERY SINGLE) symptom blamed on weight. the worst part of it is trying to receive community support and seeing so many chronically ill/disabled people push fatphobic rhetoric and be openly hostile to fat disabled people. you arent cripplepunk if youre fatphobic. :antifa_100:

Being fat decreases your #pay opportunities significantly in the #corporate world. Add into that mix any other intersecting identities, and you have a recipe for extremely low pay in comparison with groups who do not fall into those #identities. The world views fat people as less valuable and proceeds to compensate them according to that belief.

Fat people are a #marginalized group, but it continues to be 'socially acceptable' to make fun of them, treat them as less, make harmful assumptions about them, and regularly enact aggressions or #microaggressions against them.

#fatphobia #fatphobic #fat #EqualityAtEverySize #discrimination #bullying #identity

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It makes our head spin.
#FatAcceptance advocates say it's wrong to seek #ObesityCare because obesity is not a real medical problem.
#FatPhobic folks reject it because healthy choices will solve the problem.
New research documents the resulting #stigma.
https://conscienhealth.org/2023/03/promoting-stigma-for-seeking-obesity-care/

Many #superfood trends contribute to environmentally-degrading #monoculture practices to keep up with demand, particularly with #crops and places in the #GlobalSouth where monoculture hasn't traditionally been used to grow those crops. It also leaves the communities that grow them economically vulnerable when the trend inevitably fades.

#Kale may be an exception to this, since it grows well in gardens in temperate climates. But generally, trendy superfoods tend to be "exotic" crops from the tropics, or the Global South more broadly. There's often an indigenous cultural association that gets appropriated by the trend.

The one I know the most about is #quinoa. Quinoa is a grain which has been cultivated for millennia by indigenous Andeans, since it grows well in high and dry areas such as are common in the #Andes. It filled some #nutrition gaps that would have otherwise been present in a typical Andean diet: in particular, as a high-protein grain, it helped make up for the relative scarcity of meat. This is not something that most Americans who can afford to partake in superfood trends have to worry about.

Traditionally, quinoa had been grown in small crops by subsistence and small-scale farmers, alongside other crops like corn and potatoes. But when it became a superfood, it suddenly became profitable to grow large fields of only quinoa. These fields expanded rapidly onto fragile soil, depleting the scarce water and nutrients that had taken very long periods of time to incorporate into the soil.

The #ecosystem that depended on the soil collapsed. For a while, the farmers who made the transition to monoculture were making more money, but even then, most of the profits went to the corporate distributors in the US, and those farmers who couldn't or didn't make the switch were pushed out of the market. Then, when the trend faded, the money stopped coming in altogether, leaving indigenous Andean communities without money or ecological well-being, while Americans simply moved on without a second thought.

Almost all superfoods can be nutritionally replaced with more local crops, in combination. #Açaí, for instance, is considered a superfood because of its high content of antioxidants, fiber, omega-3s, and calcium. Blueberries and spinach (they don't have to be in the same meal) together have the same properties. Beans and rice are a combination that has been independently invented in a variety of different versions around the world, largely because they are two staple crops that form a complete protein together. They can replace quinoa, especially if you use brown rice.

It can be exciting to try foods from another place. It can feel adventurous and cosmopolitan. It can also help us connect with the people and cultures from which it comes, but only if we fundamentally change the way we approach it. Our current way of thinking and doing, when it comes to trying new foods, is deeply rooted in #colinialism. Superfood trends are a prime example of this fact.

Lastly, the idea that we need to eat certain foods and have a certain diet to be healthy is inherently #fatphobic. Health is systemic, and goes far beyond individual consumer choices. Nobody can sell us good health, and our belief otherwise only serves to give money to capitalists. The pressure to have the right diet, and to appear healthy under a fatphobic conception of what that means, creates immense social and psychological harm to people who can't. That harm is vastly greater than any actual harm to health from being fat itself. And there are many reasons why people can't meet the pressures of fatphobic society: poverty, disability, etc. It isn't any of our business, or our job to "fix" fat people; we need to fix society instead. We also need not fear becoming fat: that's being afraid of being like another real person, and also big business for #capitalism.

According to antifatness, the goal of every fat person at all times must be to reduce and launder their fatness as much as possible for the consumption of thin people. Most if not all fat people in antifat cultures are implicitly if not explicitly aware of this. It effects how fat people think, feel, dress, move, speak, breathe, and how, when, where, why, and if they eat.

#antifatness #antifat #fatphobia #fatphobic #sizeism #fatliberation

I can't help but think abt how the 00s fashion revival is gonna effect fat kids and teens. I hated living thru the low rise pants with slightly cropped top era so fucking much as an even slightly chubby kid. Hopefully this time around, there's less severe fatphobia owning the zeitgeist but I know that despite how far we've come, it's not remotely far enough.

#00s #00sfashion #00skid #fatphobia #fashion #fatphobic #antifatness #antifat #fatness #sizeism

Fat bellies are seen and treated as obscene in ways that flat bellies just simply aren't.

#antifatness #antifat #fatphobia #fatphobic #sizeism #belly #bellies #fat #fatness #fatliberation

mastodon is a nice place to connect to people w/o being plagued by bullshit “wellness” ads and cleverly edited influencer content.

but I still see #fatphobia and other related fuckery on the regular.
if you see it too, do something about it.

if you are #fatphobic you are a victim, too. look at that instead of replying to people unnecessarily.

Welkom in januari, de meest #fatphobic maand van het jaar. Kus aan al m’n mede-dikkies, we zijn goed zoals we zijn. ❤️

#FatPhobic

#FatPhobic

Oh, and I’m a #fat woman, a fat teacher, who doesn’t want to hear about #diets #DitchTheDiet so I’m hoping this site is not as #fatphobic as others. Strange how the most #liberal #progressive #educators still view fatness as a moral failing or think they should gatekeep others’ food & exercise choices. #nope I’m not here to argue about my body.

Tor.com essay on how SFF perpetuates harmful anti-fat and fat-phobic biases. #fatphobic

https://www.tor.com/2022/10/25/sffs-big-fat-problem

Tor.com essay on how SFF perpetuates harmful anti-fat and fat-phobic biases. #fatphobic

https://www.tor.com/2022/10/25/sffs-big-fat-problem

If like me and you feel depressed and oppressed #fatphobic shit going on, I've just come across a list of books on Fat positivity, food and fat & social justice. Thought others might find it useful.

https://www.sofiehageninfluences.com/influencing/fatbooks

#Fatphobia