Bitch, please.

OF COURSE! I am very flattered :D
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OF COURSE! I am very flattered :D
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Thanks so much! I haven’t read Scum Manifesto, but I’ve heard of it and I’ve meant to. Is it good/worth reading?

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Massive fucking facepalm.

You’re clearly unaware, of (well, a lot of things) but mainly the Health At Every Size movement, of which the main aims are, as put forward by Jon Robison in “Health at Every Size: Toward a New Paradigm of Weight and Health”. Medscape General Medicine:

1. Self-Acceptance: Affirmation and reinforcement of human beauty and worth irrespective of differences in weight, physical size and shape.
2. Physical Activity: Support for increasing social, pleasure-based movement for enjoyment and enhanced quality of life.
3. Normalized Eating: Support for discarding externally-imposed rules and regimens for eating and attaining a more peaceful relationship with food by relearning to eat in response to physiological hunger and fullness cues.

PLUS, The idea that fat is inherently unhealthy is flat-out bullshit.

Let’s have some science:

• Fat people live longer than thin people and are more likely to survive cardiac events
• Fat can protect against infections, cancer, lung disease, heart disease, osteoporosis, anemia, high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis and type 2 diabetes
• Dieting is likely to cause more health problems than being fat
• BMI is complete nonsense.

Also, can I just point out how fucked-up health-policing is? So what if people aren’t healthy? What does that have to do with you? If you honestly believe those who aren’t healthy deserve scorn and to not be respected, and accepted for who they are, frankly you’re a really, really gross person. People become fat for a wide range of reasons, maybe they eat shit food because it’s what they can afford, or they have a disability that means they have a very narrow range of foods they’re willing to eat, or they don’t have time to cook between their two jobs and single parenthood. Health is a privilege and it’s wrong on every level to judge someone for being fat OR for being unhealthy, and these two things can be, and often are, mutually exclusive.

EDIT: Also the idea of “real people” is pretty offensive. We are all real people, and we all deserve respect, regardless of health, weight, colour, sex, gender, sexuality or whatever.

Thanks so much! I haven’t read Scum Manifesto, but I’ve heard of it and I’ve meant to. Is it good?

<33

Massive fucking facepalm.

You’re clearly unaware, of (well, a lot of things) but mainly the Health At Every Size movement, of which the main aims are, as put forward by Jon Robison in “Health at Every Size: Toward a New Paradigm of Weight and Health”. Medscape General Medicine:

1. Self-Acceptance: Affirmation and reinforcement of human beauty and worth irrespective of differences in weight, physical size and shape.
2. Physical Activity: Support for increasing social, pleasure-based movement for enjoyment and enhanced quality of life.
3. Normalized Eating: Support for discarding externally-imposed rules and regimens for eating and attaining a more peaceful relationship with food by relearning to eat in response to physiological hunger and fullness cues.

The idea that fat is inherently unhealthy is flat-out bullshit.

Let’s have some science:

• Fat people live longer than thin people and are more likely to survive cardiac events
• Fat can protect against infections, cancer, lung disease, heart disease, osteoporosis, anemia, high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis and type 2 diabetes
• Dieting is likely to cause more health problems than being fat
• BMI is complete nonsense.

Also, can I just point out how fucked-up health-policing is? So what if people aren’t healthy? What does that have to do with you? If you honestly believe those who aren’t healthy deserve scorn and to not be respected, and accepted for who they are, frankly you’re a really, really gross person. People become fat for a wide range of reasons, maybe they eat shit food because it’s what they can afford, or they have a disability that means they have a very narrow range of foods they’re willing to eat, or they don’t have time to cook between their two jobs and single parenthood. Health is a privilege and that it’s wrong on every level to judge someone for being fat OR for being unhealthy, and these two things can be, and often are, mutually exclusive.