Shopping for items that supposedly have a high weight capacity and the "high" is usually 300 pounds. Do better for our fat friends, please.

#FatPolitics #FatAcceptance #BodyNeutrality

Let’s talk about #DescriptiveLanguage:

FAT is a descriptive adjective & noun.

OVERWEIGHT includes a negative judgment. We don’t say “He’s OVERHEIGHT.”

OBESE is a medical term—and a pathologizing label. It has a history & its parameters have changed over time.

All of these words may be used or understood as epithets.

The terms #FatAcceptance, #Fatshion, #FatPolitics, #FatLiberation, etc. reclaim the word as neutral while highlighting that it’s not a neutral thing to be fat in this world.

This Psychology Today piece by Dr Pirkko Markula on the #BodyPositive mov’t is a good introduction to the research & reality of #Fatmisia/#Fatphobia & references interesting research. She discusses the way that the mov’t has been coopted by straight-sized people to promote exercise as body modification & self-esteem for only a limited body type.
#FatAcceptance #FatPolitics #Psychology #BodyImage
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fit-femininity/202211/exploring-the-body-positivity-movement

#FatAcceptance #FatRepresentation #FatPolitics #movienight
Just rewatched the #CoenBrothers’ “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou” (2000), which takes place in 1937 in Mississippi.
And guess what?
There are fat characters played by fat actors! And no fat suits! And fat people as extras in crowd scenes! And most of them aren’t eating (though when they are, thin people are eating too!) And no fat jokes!
Apparently, this is possible!