This is what gets me going the most. All of the FAs say that everyone and everything is trying to eliminate the. Get rid of them. Etc.
Yet their numbers KEEP INCREASING. In fact they are not only increasing the numbers are accelerating. So their claims sure seem to be inaccurate. And simply untrue.
that was what I reacted to the most strongly. If we say that as a society we don't want fat people, we're not saying we want fat people to die. We're saying you should get thin. You still exist. You're still you. You just shed the excess fat
I conquered fatness by getting my shit together, making positive changes and sticking to them. I don't care what other fat people do to themselves, it won't change the fact that I have lost over 100lbs and counting, putting the lie to their entire grift.
Exactly. I lost over 50lb and have maintained it. If someone wants to be fat, unhealthy and miserable. Fine by me.
The only time it crosses my mind is when I feel bad/sad for stuff I see. I had to go to Target here for a last minute gift for my mom. Witnessed three obese woman, 2 of the 3 morbidly, shopping. I assume it was grandmother, mother and daughter. Grandmother is in a mobility scooter with on board oxygen. Mother can barely move. And the daughter was well on the way to the same result. That saddens me personally.
Yes! Im down 118 lbs myself. Its funny how triggered the FA are by ppl who used to be fat, but did the work to change. Our existence challenges the beliefs that they hold.
I once had a conversation with a friend (who’s always struggled with her weight) in which she admitted to me that one of the first things she does when she enters a room is check to see if she’s the fattest person in the room. She keeps mental notes of who is the fattest person and the skinniest person in each of her social groups. She was really surprised that I didn’t do the same thing.
I think when you’re insecure about something, it’s on the forefront of your mind a lot more frequently than it’s on anyone else’s.
Yet, the FAers themselves target black women who are obese and demonize them for being wHiTe SuPrEmAcIsTs if they decide to intentionally lose weight.
we must be vanquished
At the rate we're going in our society, no, you'll never be vanquished. Obesity rates have only skyrocketed and are expected to continue to do so as time goes on.
Other than when I'm on this sub, I don't think about fat people much at all. And when I'm here, it's not the fatness that I'm concerned with, it's the blatant bullshit that FAs propagate.
When I worked in the fire service, I did think about fat people more, because they were a significant portion of our medical aids. But I'm retired now and people being fat impacts me not at all in my day to day life. It think FAs go on and on about all this stuff because they do think about fatness and fat people all the time. It is the single biggest influence on their lives. Which makes sense when many of them are morbidly obese and it directly affects every facet of their lives. Also, you have to focus on your grift, so that takes up most of their time.
So I’m guessing this is from fearing the black body? FAs are extremely desperate to be persecuted despite the majority of their movement being Caucasian.
... smaller fat people... fat women with hourglass figures and fat men with barrel chests... Smaller fat people who... look able-bodied... Fat people who aren't that fat.
No way! You mean that people with body shapes that approximate a healthy build, who aren't super-morbidly obese and bed-bound due to poor lifestyle choices, tend to fit in better in general society?
Yeah, OOP, most of us do tend to find that kind of person a bit more appealing than JaeBae in her stupid little scooter.
It's very telling to me that they always seem to group "small fats" with thin people, even though "small fat" is considered obese. It's like their way of saying that "small fats" are only barely accepted in their movement.
The problem is that they make "fat" their whole personality. So naturally, that's what they project onto other people. If in their mind, that's their one and only defining quality, that's all other people must see in them. The idea that a "thin people" might come across an overweight person and just see them as the friendly neighbor or the girl with the same reading tastes doesn't occur to them.
Fat people are fine. I know plenty IRL, and they're great.
There's one lady who's a big girl, trans, a wheelchair user, autistic, and mixed race. Basically, all the coveted social media bio hashtags in one person.
Except, to me, she's just 'that girl who taught me what 'guinea pig' is in sign language that time'.
She doesn't weaponise her various descriptors, as she has a personality, and she's fun to be around. Mind you, she has a tiny dog that wears little sweaters, so maybe she weaponises cuteness a little bit.
Fat activists? Damn straight, I have a problem with them.
I don't like narcissists, and I don't like cults, especially cults that say women with my build are weak, have EDs, have tons of privilege (we don't), and are only attractive to nonces.
As someone who could be considered a “smaller fat person” (????), i.e. no longer obese and finally working on fitness/not being skinny-fat, this all sounds deranged and obsessive. I don’t think my dislike of fat activism stems from a weird superiority complex, I dislike it because it’s an anti-science cult full of medical and nutritional misinformation that is going to get people killed because of all the encouragement to ignore the advice of even your own doctor. If you’re involved with fat acceptance and you want to lose weight for your health, they try to drag you back into the bucket because losing weight is inherently fatphobic.
I agree that it is wrong to harass people in the street, police their food, and voice judgement to the faces of your actual fat loved ones/random people. But acknowledging that it’s not healthy is just true. And I kinda do find becoming fat again to be a haunting potential future. Dying of preventable illness and feeling completely out of control of my own behavior sounds fucking horrible!
I don't have it in me to do more than just tolerate the bodies around me. What's the alternative? Loving all bodies? I don't have that much love in me.
i don’t know if i’m going to express this very well, or if it makes sense how i’m connecting this train of thought…
ime as someone who has struggled with disordered eating for most of my life, i have a heightened sense of awareness of how i ‘shape up’ compared to others in most situations because…i have a problem lol. sometimes i find myself obsessing over not only how others perceive me, but how others perceive OTHERS and what that means about me. i am…very aware this is all in my head and not how most people think.
so i guess i understand this mindset of FEELING like everyone is thinking about your body. but i DON’T understand why FAs have such a tendency to turn what is basically insecurity and self-loathing outward, and do so in such a vocal and brazen way. i don’t understand the hatred that seeps through in everything. do they receive such constant yasssss queen validation that they never look inward and realize they may be the ones who are oozing toxicity?
Despite their numbers skyrocketing over recent decades, they somehow paint themselves as targets of a present/future genocide.
This is like if computers were sounding alarms about the eminent danger that typewriters will soon take over the world.
This is what gets me going the most. All of the FAs say that everyone and everything is trying to eliminate the. Get rid of them. Etc.
Yet their numbers KEEP INCREASING. In fact they are not only increasing the numbers are accelerating. So their claims sure seem to be inaccurate. And simply untrue.
that was what I reacted to the most strongly. If we say that as a society we don't want fat people, we're not saying we want fat people to die. We're saying you should get thin. You still exist. You're still you. You just shed the excess fat
Funny you make that analogy. I have two neighborhood typewriter shops but no neighorhood computer stores.
I love that! Bring back typewriters!
You're a slave to the million dollar typewriter culture industry
/s
I conquered fatness by getting my shit together, making positive changes and sticking to them. I don't care what other fat people do to themselves, it won't change the fact that I have lost over 100lbs and counting, putting the lie to their entire grift.
Exactly. I lost over 50lb and have maintained it. If someone wants to be fat, unhealthy and miserable. Fine by me.
The only time it crosses my mind is when I feel bad/sad for stuff I see. I had to go to Target here for a last minute gift for my mom. Witnessed three obese woman, 2 of the 3 morbidly, shopping. I assume it was grandmother, mother and daughter. Grandmother is in a mobility scooter with on board oxygen. Mother can barely move. And the daughter was well on the way to the same result. That saddens me personally.
That's really good weight loss!
Yeah some of the stuff you see is really sad, but I can only have so much sympathy when I know it's self inflicted.
Same to you! Doubled me up basically.
Agreed. That is why it makes me sad. Daughter has no chance.
I, too, dropped 50 pounds after deciding that I was no longer going to be fat and miserable.
Mission accomplished: now I am just miserable.
Chin up. Big accomplishment.
I like measuring my weight loss in lbs because it makes it easier to look like I’m doing more than I am
Genius!
Everyone should move to America because you can lose twice as fast as those poor metric folks.
The poor English with their stones
I remember when I startet reading this sub and I noticed that I indeed was 203 pounds in American weight. That shocked me. Into losing weight.
I usually measure in KG because that's what we use in South Africa but a lot of Redditors are from the US and they understand pounds better lol.
Hah yeah I’m from Australia we use kilos there as well but I like pounds because it’s easy to count
Yes! Im down 118 lbs myself. Its funny how triggered the FA are by ppl who used to be fat, but did the work to change. Our existence challenges the beliefs that they hold.
That is a really amazing accomplishment. You are right to be proud of it.
I once had a conversation with a friend (who’s always struggled with her weight) in which she admitted to me that one of the first things she does when she enters a room is check to see if she’s the fattest person in the room. She keeps mental notes of who is the fattest person and the skinniest person in each of her social groups. She was really surprised that I didn’t do the same thing.
I think when you’re insecure about something, it’s on the forefront of your mind a lot more frequently than it’s on anyone else’s.
A lot of fat people are really shallow and have an unhealthy obsession with appearances. They need to turn that energy into fixing themselves.
Yet, the FAers themselves target black women who are obese and demonize them for being wHiTe SuPrEmAcIsTs if they decide to intentionally lose weight.
At the rate we're going in our society, no, you'll never be vanquished. Obesity rates have only skyrocketed and are expected to continue to do so as time goes on.
Pot calling the kettle black.
It’s so over dramatic for no reason. I just see the OOP making this face the whole time: 😩😩
It's because she's struggling to breathe with all that typing
I don't want fat people vanquished. I don't even care if they choose to stay fat. I believe in body autonomy.
But everyone should know the risks that come from being overweight. And I strongly oppose the health misinformation these people constantly spread.
And the people who do bully fat people are doing it out of a desire to be a bully. No grand cosmic narrative required.
Other than when I'm on this sub, I don't think about fat people much at all. And when I'm here, it's not the fatness that I'm concerned with, it's the blatant bullshit that FAs propagate.
When I worked in the fire service, I did think about fat people more, because they were a significant portion of our medical aids. But I'm retired now and people being fat impacts me not at all in my day to day life. It think FAs go on and on about all this stuff because they do think about fatness and fat people all the time. It is the single biggest influence on their lives. Which makes sense when many of them are morbidly obese and it directly affects every facet of their lives. Also, you have to focus on your grift, so that takes up most of their time.
They keep moving the goalposts lol
Thin people don't think about you at all Brenda.
So I’m guessing this is from fearing the black body? FAs are extremely desperate to be persecuted despite the majority of their movement being Caucasian.
No way! You mean that people with body shapes that approximate a healthy build, who aren't super-morbidly obese and bed-bound due to poor lifestyle choices, tend to fit in better in general society?
Yeah, OOP, most of us do tend to find that kind of person a bit more appealing than JaeBae in her stupid little scooter.
I wonder what it isrhat they want exactly? Whete was this tirade leading?
"Help help, I'm being oppressed!"
I only think about you when you are next to me, squishing me in my seat. And yes, I am quite phobic about that!
Or, to be honest, when we're on a team and you can barely breathe much less contribute.
It's very telling to me that they always seem to group "small fats" with thin people, even though "small fat" is considered obese. It's like their way of saying that "small fats" are only barely accepted in their movement.
Yeah.... I need to show everyone that i'm not slovenly, I'm slovakly. These people ate even the thesaurus.
The problem is that they make "fat" their whole personality. So naturally, that's what they project onto other people. If in their mind, that's their one and only defining quality, that's all other people must see in them. The idea that a "thin people" might come across an overweight person and just see them as the friendly neighbor or the girl with the same reading tastes doesn't occur to them.
Fat people are fine. I know plenty IRL, and they're great.
There's one lady who's a big girl, trans, a wheelchair user, autistic, and mixed race. Basically, all the coveted social media bio hashtags in one person.
Except, to me, she's just 'that girl who taught me what 'guinea pig' is in sign language that time'.
She doesn't weaponise her various descriptors, as she has a personality, and she's fun to be around. Mind you, she has a tiny dog that wears little sweaters, so maybe she weaponises cuteness a little bit.
Fat activists? Damn straight, I have a problem with them.
I don't like narcissists, and I don't like cults, especially cults that say women with my build are weak, have EDs, have tons of privilege (we don't), and are only attractive to nonces.
Uh… the fuck?
As someone who could be considered a “smaller fat person” (????), i.e. no longer obese and finally working on fitness/not being skinny-fat, this all sounds deranged and obsessive. I don’t think my dislike of fat activism stems from a weird superiority complex, I dislike it because it’s an anti-science cult full of medical and nutritional misinformation that is going to get people killed because of all the encouragement to ignore the advice of even your own doctor. If you’re involved with fat acceptance and you want to lose weight for your health, they try to drag you back into the bucket because losing weight is inherently fatphobic.
I agree that it is wrong to harass people in the street, police their food, and voice judgement to the faces of your actual fat loved ones/random people. But acknowledging that it’s not healthy is just true. And I kinda do find becoming fat again to be a haunting potential future. Dying of preventable illness and feeling completely out of control of my own behavior sounds fucking horrible!
How do people come up with these kinds of takes? Is it drugs? Not leaving the house for a month?
"Concern and choice" of what exactly?
I don't have it in me to do more than just tolerate the bodies around me. What's the alternative? Loving all bodies? I don't have that much love in me.
The level of delusion in this post is insane.
i don’t know if i’m going to express this very well, or if it makes sense how i’m connecting this train of thought…
ime as someone who has struggled with disordered eating for most of my life, i have a heightened sense of awareness of how i ‘shape up’ compared to others in most situations because…i have a problem lol. sometimes i find myself obsessing over not only how others perceive me, but how others perceive OTHERS and what that means about me. i am…very aware this is all in my head and not how most people think.
so i guess i understand this mindset of FEELING like everyone is thinking about your body. but i DON’T understand why FAs have such a tendency to turn what is basically insecurity and self-loathing outward, and do so in such a vocal and brazen way. i don’t understand the hatred that seeps through in everything. do they receive such constant yasssss queen validation that they never look inward and realize they may be the ones who are oozing toxicity?
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Jesus accepted it with more grace. Not saying that if they WERE being harassed to take it, but this is not accurate.