February 2011
Fat acceptance is not giving up on health
mymilkspilt:
Contrary to what some critics of Fat Acceptance assert, the movement is not about claiming that there are no links at all between weight and health (rather, that correlations are commonly grossly exaggerated and misunderstood, and that promoting mainly weight loss measures as a ‘solution’ at the expense of a more positive approach to health and well-being is actively harmful.)...
January 2011
We don’t ask for much, just broadcast what is...
soupsoup:
To all the people of world The people in Egypt are under governmental siege. Mubarak regime is banning Facebook, Twitter, and all other popular internet sites Now, the internet are completely blocked in Egypt. Tomorrow the government will block the 3 mobile phone network will be completely blocked. And there is news that even the phone landlines will be cut tomorrow, to prevent any...
“Most of us, in our daily lives, do not think about rape at all. Women, however,...”
– Pornography, Lad Mags, Video Games and Boys: Reviving the Canary in the Cultural Coalmine Matthew B. Ezzell (via iwillnotshavemyvagina)
This x1000. Being on guard a majority of the time is exhausting.
(via reclusiveobscenities)
I know a lot of girls who don’t explicitly live in fear of rape or...
“Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this...”
– A.S. Neill (via burntmarshmallow)
Rebranding Body Image: J.K. Rowling's opinion of... →
body-peace:
“For Girls Only, Probably… Being thin. Probably not a subject that you ever expected to read about on this website, but my recent trip to London got me thinking…
It started in the car on the way to Leavesden film studios. I whiled away part of the journey reading a magazine…
“Virginity and chastity are reemerging as a trend in pop culture, in our schools,...”
– Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth (via tulletulle)
Fact: Most people on Tumblr
sugaredvenom:
penelopethesmuggler:
glorify obesity.
It’s sickening, and sad.
For real.
Actually, it’s more like “some people are working towards a society that doesn’t treat fat people as second-class citizens and recognises their right exist within their body, on their own terms”. What’s sickening is how some thin privileged people think they have the right to body police fat people and...
“Am I arguing that girls and women shouldn’t be held responsible for their...”
– Emily Maguire, Princesses & Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity. (via starsgowaltzing)
“It’s a consequence of a man deciding to rape someone”
(via newwavefeminism)
I am not "sizeist".
sugaredvenom:
daniellamb:
I have fat friends, but obese people who do nothing but eat shit that makes them that way and then try to flaunt their bodies disgust me.
What? Because I’ve got some chub I have to think it is acceptable to kill yourself with food?
Not to mention what these people do to their fucking kids.
Get off of it, I’m a realist who cares about the human race and honestly...
“Because I’m a woman, and I have accordingly been taught my entire life to view...”
– Sady fucking Doyle (via splatterdick)
“Pointing out that men are privileged in no way denies that bad things happen to...”
– Barry Deutsch- The Male Privilege Checklist (via reelaroundthefountain)
