I'm going to post a couple links to sources for the next couple days to hopefully start a conversation in this space! These will fall in the area of Fat Studies and there's some norms you should be aware of:

  • "fat" is taken as a neutral descriptor, think of it as reclaiming the word.
  • "obese" arbitrarily medicalises fatness and Others fat people

I'm a cis man and I have (had) body image issues (in the past)

https://humanparts.medium.com/my-journey-toward-radical-body-positivity-3412796df8ff

I'm queer and fat

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yeefpijtl4s7orv/Flaunting%20Fat%20%E2%80%93%C2%A0Sex%20with%20the%20Lights%20On.pdf?dl=0

I'm queer and not fat

https://www.bitchmedia.org/post/fat-liberation-is-totally-queer

The others don't apply to me and/or I only have the energy/time to read one source

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/

:sankara-salute:

👉 Part 2 is up

👉 Part 3 is up

  • carlin [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Thanks for posting that! I'm going to highlight BMI in my post tomorrow because it's SO arbitrary even without the whole body-builder argument

    Oh and relevant to your comment, in the last piece above there is this quote, which is a bit of a window into what you might be experiencing:

    Lesley Williams, a family medicine doctor in Phoenix, tells me she gets an alert from her electronic health records software every time she’s about to see a patient who is above the “overweight” threshold. The reason for this is that physicians are often required, in writing, to prove to hospital administrators and insurance providers that they have brought up their patient’s weight and formulated a plan to bring it down—regardless of whether that patient came in with arthritis or a broken arm or a bad sunburn. Failing to do that could result in poor performance reviews, low ratings from insurance companies or being denied reimbursement if they refer patients to specialized care.

    • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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      4 years ago

      What the fuck :|

      Thanks for posting the OP, lots of libs still haven't realized the full extent of the harm the stigma from fatphobia causes. It's wild how people will just make assumptions about strangers from their bodies and then repeat those as if the stigma isn't actually dangerously dehumanizing.

      • carlin [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        r/fatpeoplehate normalised it in libs brains.

        I mean also like the entire media, particularly childrens, but I want to make witty chapo post hahaha