A lot of my “friends” still subscribe to the moral purity testing and let’s just say I’ve started distancing myself from them and they haven’t even noticed. They’re so busy policing everyone else in their lives and cutting people off for the slightest misstep, they can’t tell when others do it for them.
These are the same people I notice who are always begging others to build more community, while actively isolating themselves.
You have to remember that though they’re posted far more, these people are not the majority of tumblr. Tumblr is pretty chill now honestly. It’s twitter that is insufferable.
I'm honestly surprise there aren't more X screenshots posts in here. I don't have an account so I can't help out but we have an untapped mine of stuff to get exasperated over people, wake up!!
🎶One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?🎵
personally, i'll keep IDing as progressive because extremists don't define me or my ideology, and i hope that one day enough people will do the same to the point that "outliers" essentially become irrelevant. please don't let people like this make you feel ashamed of who you are and how you choose to identify yourself! i get what you mean, though. 🫂
This reminds me of the time my friend and I from college finished exams, bought 40 pieces of McNuggets, poured them into a huge metal mixing bowl with a ton of sauces, and sat watching Netflix at my place for like six hours.
First off: I would be so sick if I ever ate that many McNuggets again, don’t underestimate the constitution of a 19-year-old college student.
Second: I love how people would screech at you “See! See! She can do it and not gain weight!” Yeah, because I’ve only ever done that once in my life and I have no intention of repeating it.
My degrees are in social work. I've had a variety of social work related jobs in multiple cities in a couple states. The majority of people who work in the field are pretty unhinged in the ways we see posted here. I'm embarrassed to mention it to anyone in person. I don't want to be associated with people like OOP.
As a queer person I am so tired of fat activists comparing “fatphobia” to the oppression that queer people go through. Being made fun of is not the same thing as being discriminated against for your sexuality and/or gender
Same here, as a black woman (who's also queer). These are things that don't ebb and flow, although my weight has gone up and down (it's stayed down). Please stop with the "Oppression Olympics" and attaching the FA beliefs to people who have experienced actual oppression - our people being killed, deported, denied human rights (like marriage), or an unfair justice system. None of these apply to heavier people.
Same, queer and disabled and I can't change either . But I can change my weight. The annoying part is when they then relate it to religion stating that people can change that too and there is religious discrimination
I am so glad fat acceptance is dying out. This is just the kind of mind numbing drivel that we can expect to see less and less of, and I am here for it.
I don’t identify as progressive these days because I’m sick of being lumped in with all these angry, chronically online young people who do nothing but tell you that if you don’t believe exactly what they believe and therefore “examine your beliefs” so they align with theirs, you’re no better than trash.
I know that’s not what being progressive means. Many of us know that. But people like that, FAs being amongst them, have given people with progressive ideas a bad reputation. And I am a grown adult with a job and shit to do and I don’t need to deal with that kind of juvenile drama.
I had to stop engaging so much with online discourse and focus on voting and volunteering when it comes to taking action for causes I feel strongly about. I don’t like that so many people are more focused on never doing anything bad ever/not getting canceled than actually doing good stuff.
Not to veer too much into politics so I don’t break sub rules but I must be old fashioned because politics to me happen at the polling station, not on social media. When I was younger, you didn’t talk about politics. It was taboo to do so and very much don’t ask, don’t tell. There was none of this going no contact with your family, friends, or even random acquaintances over differing political opinions because it was no one’s business but yours. It’s nice we’re not all hiding our thoughts now but we’ve gone a little far the other way.
And now I understand why you might not want to be in contact with someone who opposes your rights (like actual rights, not whether you can eat 5000 calories a day). I’m not denying that’s a valid reason to not be around someone if it has come up. But I’ve had people get genuinely angry with me for not disclosing who I vote for when they’ve badgered me about it. It’s none of their business.
And I find FAs are exactly in the same group of people as the ones who would act like I was automatically the enemy for making what I considered to be a private decision and then interrogated me on my beliefs and essentially moral purity. Frankly, the older I get, the less I care. Let them think I’m evil. The people in my life who love me are not the ones assigning me random tests of worthiness.
I’ve said this in other comments from my history in activism spaces but it’s because people have lost sight of the fact it’s about improving other people’s lives. My original path to activism was a very selfless thing and it’s very difficult to continue long term when you have your own life and problems to solve. Some people aren’t cut out for that at all. The entitlement comes from wanting to improve their own lives first and saying fuck everyone else if they don’t get their own way.
My Gen X mum taught me how to say “whatever 🙄” by making a W and E with three fingers. We’ve been sassing each other like that since I was a toddler. 😂
I think this is a repost. It was on here a bit ago.
But yeah, it’s still insane. People don’t dislike neckbeard Redditors because of their weight, it’s because men who become obsessed with how fat and ugly and romantically hopeless they are are just incels. People like nice fat guys.
It is ridiculous to devote significant brainspace to harassing people at the gym or just out in the world; only sad little people with sad little inner lives behave that way. Influencers who mock fat strangers at the gym are not liked by the general public. Begging these people to get off the Internet. The world isn’t actually filled to the brim with body-shaming bullies.
Most fat Americans are centered around conservative states anyways. Stop lumping hateful American fat fucks with actual minorities. There’s a reason why republicans don’t target fat people as opposed to trans or gay folks.
Yea I never get the “skinniness is centered around controlling women’s bodies and the conservative movement” because it’s the cities where you see thinner people (prime examples being NYC and LA but also SF, DC, etc.). And I wonder how they vote…
This is such a wild thing to say in a country with obesity rates this high. Almost 3/4 of American adults are overweight and 40 percent are “fat fucks” and they are well represented in liberal, progressive, and other leftist identities. The reason neither democrats nor republicans target fat people, as you phrase it, is because there is barely anyone else left to vote.
To quote chat gpt cos I ain’t reading all that “social injustice does not determine biological reality”. If they were actually educated and not a case of arrested development they’d acknowledge that there is some nuance here. The bad treatment of larger people is not necessarily something that contradicts the actuality that excessive adiposity is horrendous for you.
My mom use to say I only have to do 2 things, “stay black and pay taxes”. I’m sure she will be pleased to know we must also stay fat no matter the circumstances.
If they’re going to act like they’re progressive and holier than thou, then I will absolutely remind them that there are people down the street from their house that are likely skipping multiple meals a day and having to ration food or skip out on certain bill or replacing shoes or jackets because they can’t afford food.
And yet they complain nonstop about not being able to shop at stores that were created for teenagers and middle schoolers
I think there's a slight difference between others being discriminatory towards you because of how you were born and how you choose to be. If you want to be a fat shut in, whatever, do you, but stop bringing actual marginalised groups. Next time I see something about race/queer people on this sub I will gladly smash my fat head into a wall.
Let's say you had no hand in being so obese, that you're trapped inside, and the internet is all you have.
Plenty of prison inmates people with access to a library that relies on whatever donated books it gets, and with no internet/strictly limited internet, manage to get GED's, degrees, enough legal training to launch a successful appeal, etc.
They use their time inside to better themselves. Even the ones who'll never get out.
You're on Tumblr, screeching into the void and engaging in meaningless, performative allyship towards actual marginalised groups, who don't want or need your input.
I dont see "progrssive" as a compliment 😅 if youre not following 100% of the playbook 100% of the time you cant hold the title... and if you are, then youre probably a nut job.
I don’t think real progressives care about what a fat American on tumblr circa 2026 has to say about progressive issues.
Most of the moral purity testing is dying out, especially with fringe nutcase topics like fat activism.
Class consciousness is returning (meaning that above all, social class is what is harming the average person and billionaires shouldn't exist).
A lot of my “friends” still subscribe to the moral purity testing and let’s just say I’ve started distancing myself from them and they haven’t even noticed. They’re so busy policing everyone else in their lives and cutting people off for the slightest misstep, they can’t tell when others do it for them.
These are the same people I notice who are always begging others to build more community, while actively isolating themselves.
Bout time!
That’s cool and all but racism and sexism still exist lol
Of course but why are the middle, working class, and poor not working togwther??? The billionnaires are the enemies of us all.
if what thumblr says is enough to make someone not identify as progressive, then they never were one
Kinda surprised tumblr still exists
You have to remember that though they’re posted far more, these people are not the majority of tumblr. Tumblr is pretty chill now honestly. It’s twitter that is insufferable.
I'm honestly surprise there aren't more X screenshots posts in here. I don't have an account so I can't help out but we have an untapped mine of stuff to get exasperated over people, wake up!!
Nah I'm glad xhitter isn't being posted here. Don't give that hellsite any traffic
Yeah I’m not too concerned about fat logic on twitter at this point lol but they do spread plenty of other disinformation and misinformation
Hah true that X is a proper mare
I don't think anybody else does, either except the other cult members.
Call me Sesame Street because
🎶One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others By the time I finish my song?🎵
personally, i'll keep IDing as progressive because extremists don't define me or my ideology, and i hope that one day enough people will do the same to the point that "outliers" essentially become irrelevant. please don't let people like this make you feel ashamed of who you are and how you choose to identify yourself! i get what you mean, though. 🫂
No one’s forcing you inside, you just choose to stay inside, in front of the tv, with a 20 piece nugget meal.
This reminds me of the time my friend and I from college finished exams, bought 40 pieces of McNuggets, poured them into a huge metal mixing bowl with a ton of sauces, and sat watching Netflix at my place for like six hours.
First off: I would be so sick if I ever ate that many McNuggets again, don’t underestimate the constitution of a 19-year-old college student.
Second: I love how people would screech at you “See! See! She can do it and not gain weight!” Yeah, because I’ve only ever done that once in my life and I have no intention of repeating it.
Exactly. The someone is a “neck beard online” because they are worried about going outside is silly. That is the “norm” at this point.
So sick of the idea that being black or gay is a thing you can change like being fat. So dumb.
But, but, but… they can’t change being fat!
They’re special genetic snowflakes with metabolisms so slow that they gain weight even on 600 calories a day. 🤥
Oh yeah that starvation mode. All those fat ppl that got liberated you know.
Omg!! The “oppression” part kills me…
Yeah show me a video “making fun” of someone overweight in a gym that doesn’t have 100 comments calling the poster an a-hole
If you are just looking to be oppressed you’re going to find it, but so are people because or race, height, orientation, etc.
But weight you have control over, yeah not everyone can be skinny as a twig, but you can lose some amount of weight an have better quality of life
My degrees are in social work. I've had a variety of social work related jobs in multiple cities in a couple states. The majority of people who work in the field are pretty unhinged in the ways we see posted here. I'm embarrassed to mention it to anyone in person. I don't want to be associated with people like OOP.
Same!!
As a queer person I am so tired of fat activists comparing “fatphobia” to the oppression that queer people go through. Being made fun of is not the same thing as being discriminated against for your sexuality and/or gender
Same here, as a black woman (who's also queer). These are things that don't ebb and flow, although my weight has gone up and down (it's stayed down). Please stop with the "Oppression Olympics" and attaching the FA beliefs to people who have experienced actual oppression - our people being killed, deported, denied human rights (like marriage), or an unfair justice system. None of these apply to heavier people.
Same, queer and disabled and I can't change either . But I can change my weight. The annoying part is when they then relate it to religion stating that people can change that too and there is religious discrimination
I am so glad fat acceptance is dying out. This is just the kind of mind numbing drivel that we can expect to see less and less of, and I am here for it.
As it dies out, they grasp at more desperate straws to keep afloat and it makes them sound even crazier. Can’t say I’m complaining.
I'm just....being a leftist who hasn't fallen for FA propaganda is so fucking exhausting
I don’t identify as progressive these days because I’m sick of being lumped in with all these angry, chronically online young people who do nothing but tell you that if you don’t believe exactly what they believe and therefore “examine your beliefs” so they align with theirs, you’re no better than trash.
I know that’s not what being progressive means. Many of us know that. But people like that, FAs being amongst them, have given people with progressive ideas a bad reputation. And I am a grown adult with a job and shit to do and I don’t need to deal with that kind of juvenile drama.
I personally identify as tired.
I had to stop engaging so much with online discourse and focus on voting and volunteering when it comes to taking action for causes I feel strongly about. I don’t like that so many people are more focused on never doing anything bad ever/not getting canceled than actually doing good stuff.
Not to veer too much into politics so I don’t break sub rules but I must be old fashioned because politics to me happen at the polling station, not on social media. When I was younger, you didn’t talk about politics. It was taboo to do so and very much don’t ask, don’t tell. There was none of this going no contact with your family, friends, or even random acquaintances over differing political opinions because it was no one’s business but yours. It’s nice we’re not all hiding our thoughts now but we’ve gone a little far the other way.
And now I understand why you might not want to be in contact with someone who opposes your rights (like actual rights, not whether you can eat 5000 calories a day). I’m not denying that’s a valid reason to not be around someone if it has come up. But I’ve had people get genuinely angry with me for not disclosing who I vote for when they’ve badgered me about it. It’s none of their business.
And I find FAs are exactly in the same group of people as the ones who would act like I was automatically the enemy for making what I considered to be a private decision and then interrogated me on my beliefs and essentially moral purity. Frankly, the older I get, the less I care. Let them think I’m evil. The people in my life who love me are not the ones assigning me random tests of worthiness.
There's dozens of us!
But yeah, when did believing in creating policies to improve people's lives turn into this feral marketplace of entitlement.
I’ve said this in other comments from my history in activism spaces but it’s because people have lost sight of the fact it’s about improving other people’s lives. My original path to activism was a very selfless thing and it’s very difficult to continue long term when you have your own life and problems to solve. Some people aren’t cut out for that at all. The entitlement comes from wanting to improve their own lives first and saying fuck everyone else if they don’t get their own way.
Well said.
As a Gen X’er, I identify as “whatever. 🙄”
My Gen X mum taught me how to say “whatever 🙄” by making a W and E with three fingers. We’ve been sassing each other like that since I was a toddler. 😂
They always scream that causation can’t be proven, then insist all these things cause being fat.
I think this is a repost. It was on here a bit ago.
But yeah, it’s still insane. People don’t dislike neckbeard Redditors because of their weight, it’s because men who become obsessed with how fat and ugly and romantically hopeless they are are just incels. People like nice fat guys.
It is ridiculous to devote significant brainspace to harassing people at the gym or just out in the world; only sad little people with sad little inner lives behave that way. Influencers who mock fat strangers at the gym are not liked by the general public. Begging these people to get off the Internet. The world isn’t actually filled to the brim with body-shaming bullies.
Most fat Americans are centered around conservative states anyways. Stop lumping hateful American fat fucks with actual minorities. There’s a reason why republicans don’t target fat people as opposed to trans or gay folks.
Yea I never get the “skinniness is centered around controlling women’s bodies and the conservative movement” because it’s the cities where you see thinner people (prime examples being NYC and LA but also SF, DC, etc.). And I wonder how they vote…
I mean the MAHA movement definitely pretends to care abt the obesity movement all while being led by the 2nd fattest president ever
MAHA is like you get most of whats wrong and you're completely off about how to fix it 😭
This is such a wild thing to say in a country with obesity rates this high. Almost 3/4 of American adults are overweight and 40 percent are “fat fucks” and they are well represented in liberal, progressive, and other leftist identities. The reason neither democrats nor republicans target fat people, as you phrase it, is because there is barely anyone else left to vote.
To quote chat gpt cos I ain’t reading all that “social injustice does not determine biological reality”. If they were actually educated and not a case of arrested development they’d acknowledge that there is some nuance here. The bad treatment of larger people is not necessarily something that contradicts the actuality that excessive adiposity is horrendous for you.
Pretending this is a progressive belief is equivalent to pretending progressives want kids to shit in litter boxes at school.
The crazy left and the crazy left are just that, crazy. Stop making common sense a polarizing issue.
Next you’re gonna tell me that undocumented immigrants aren’t actually turning large American cities into crime-ridden hellholes. 🫠
My mom use to say I only have to do 2 things, “stay black and pay taxes”. I’m sure she will be pleased to know we must also stay fat no matter the circumstances.
Gym is the last place you are likely to be judged
If they’re going to act like they’re progressive and holier than thou, then I will absolutely remind them that there are people down the street from their house that are likely skipping multiple meals a day and having to ration food or skip out on certain bill or replacing shoes or jackets because they can’t afford food. And yet they complain nonstop about not being able to shop at stores that were created for teenagers and middle schoolers
I think there's a slight difference between others being discriminatory towards you because of how you were born and how you choose to be. If you want to be a fat shut in, whatever, do you, but stop bringing actual marginalised groups. Next time I see something about race/queer people on this sub I will gladly smash my fat head into a wall.
Fair enough.
Let's say you had no hand in being so obese, that you're trapped inside, and the internet is all you have.
Plenty of prison inmates people with access to a library that relies on whatever donated books it gets, and with no internet/strictly limited internet, manage to get GED's, degrees, enough legal training to launch a successful appeal, etc.
They use their time inside to better themselves. Even the ones who'll never get out.
You're on Tumblr, screeching into the void and engaging in meaningless, performative allyship towards actual marginalised groups, who don't want or need your input.
Literally what are they even talking about?
Is this person in highschool or something? I can’t remember the last time Ive ever seen or heard about a fat person getting filmed for being fat.
There used to be a reddit sub where you could post pictures of fat people existing expressly for the purpose of mocking them.
Diabetes makes you LOSE weight, not gain it. For fucks sake.
whats ID
Identify.
I dont see "progrssive" as a compliment 😅 if youre not following 100% of the playbook 100% of the time you cant hold the title... and if you are, then youre probably a nut job.