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[TW: disordered eating, abuse, harassment, rape] Things I have learned as a fat person

inautumn-inkashmir:

  1. Fat people should never admit that they need sustenance, much less like it. Admitting that you enjoy food while fat will cause the non-fat to criticize you for being unable to control yourself around food. Especially if you have a sweet tooth or like potato chips. Things like that are only acceptable if you are not fat.
  2. Fat people are unable to have eating disorders because if they had eating disorders they would be skinny, not fat. Fat people eat too much and therefore restricting their caloric intake is a good thing, right?
  3. Fat people do not love physical activity. Fat people do not dance, run, hike, bike, walk, jump, play organized sports, or move their bodies. Fat people never exercise and abhor the outdoors. 
  4. Fat people are never allowed to eat in public or show that they do have the basic human requirement to derive energy from food. If a fat person, for instance, eats a burrito on the way to class they are just asking for rude insensitive comments and cruelty.
  5. Fat people are not allowed to be sexual, to get it on with a person of their choosing, to enjoy having other people enjoy their bodies, to give and receive pleasure of a physical nature. People who are partners or lovers of a fat person are considered automatically (and while this is sometimes the case, it is not always the case) to be ‘chubby chasers’ or fat fetishizers or somehow noble for loving that poor fatty. Fat people who are asexual or disinclined to physical displays of affection are that way because they can’t get any, not because this is simply who they are.
  6. Fat people must dress ‘flatteringly’ at all times so as to minimize the impact their fatness has on other people. Fat people must also wear sacks and eschew fashion because fashion is not meant for fatties.
  7. Fat people must never be proud of their other attributes; they must always be aware THAT THEY ARE FAT AND FAT IS BAD.
  8. Fat people must not use public transportation or travel or do other things that force other people to come into contact with them
  9. Fat people must be prepared to see bodies like theirs representative of evil, laziness, greed, excess, cruelty, and other such things which emphasize the idea that fatness is because of an inherent mental or personal flaw and that if you are fat, you are also all these things.
  10. Fat people must be prepared to answer invasive questions about their diet, exercise, health history, and the like at any given time because if they didn’t want to detail their entire physical makeup for complete strangers, they shouldn’t be fat.
  11. Fat people must believe that any sign of harrassment, sexual abuse and even rape is a good thing because they wouldn’t be getting any any other way. (Actual quote said to me, post-rape).

I know there’s more. Maybe I’ll revisit this in a bit and update it.

(Reblogged from lavenderlabia)

It really bothers me when people deny a compliment

goldenheartedrose:

lavenderlabia:

breathe-and-startover:

Especially when its true. If someone tells you you’re beautiful, it’s probably true, so dont shoot it down right in their face by saying ‘no I’m not, but thanks’. You dont have to agree, but at least accept the compliment and smile.

It really bothers me when people are arrogant enough to assume that everyone else wants to hear or receive their “compliments”. 

It really bothers me when someone pretends their doing a kind or altruistic thing but actually wants to control how the other person responds, and is actually doing it because they expect gratitude. 

It really bothers me when someone thinks their subjective assessment should be accepted as fact by everyone. 

It really bothers me when people think it’s their right to comment on someone else’s physical appearance. 

Thank you.  So much this ^^

Simply because you (OP) believe that someone is smart, beautiful, etc. doesn’t make it truth.  Meaning that you may see a person that way, but they may not see themselves that way, and THAT’S OKAY! That’s okay for them to see themselves different.  What you see is not truth; what THEY see in themselves is truth. 

Let me tell you a story.  I dated someone who complimented me on EVERYTHING.  My physical appearance, my intelligence, my sense of humor - everything.  I was particularly sensitive about my looks at the time, so he tended to compliment my physical appearance more than anything else.  In the end, he manipulated me, he hurt me, and when he was done with me, he called me an ugly whore.  So now whenever someone compliments me on my appearance (which doesn’t happen a whole lot, thankfully, because people tend to keep their distance from me unless we’re already friends), I am reminded of him.  So no, I don’t think that I need to be thankful that someone has invaded my personal space and is complimenting me on something that makes me physically ill every time I think about it.

And I didn’t even talk about sexual harassment, but that’s supposedly a “compliment”, too…..so….

Fuck your sense of entitlement, that you feel you have any right to receive a specific response by offering a compliment, however sincere you may be.

(Source: justunder-theupperhand)

(Reblogged from goldenheartedrose)

whitewhine:

CNN: Always putting the important news first!

(Reblogged from madladyrandom)