Fat Acceptance Movement / Fat Girlcows

[Falcon Sebben]

It's that time of year for FatScammerUK to chime in with "health" tips!

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it goes on and on and on.....lol why is eating less so complicated for these narcissists?

Eat less and exercise more.

That deals with both sides of the equation. Done.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

It's that time of year for FatScammerUK to chime in with "health" tips!

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it goes on and on and on.....lol why is eating less so complicated for these narcissists?

I have a better psychology fact for her. You can never binge eat garbage if you don't even buy that shit in the first place. Healthy weight people don't have magical solid steel willpower, they just avoid setting themselves up for failure.

 

[NoReturn]

Got another case of "normal sized person making shit that fatties are gonna eat up.

Article: https://time.com/6242949/exercise-industry-white-supremacy/
Archive: https://archive.vn/bdV29

The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise, and 6 Other Surprising Facts About the History of U.S. Physical Fitness​

BY OLIVIA B. WAXMAN
UPDATED: DECEMBER 28, 2022 11:56 AM EST | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 28, 2022 7:00 AM EST

How did U.S. exercise trends go from reinforcing white supremacy to celebrating Richard Simmons? That evolution is explored in a new book by a historian of exercise, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, author of the book Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession, out Jan. 2023.

Nowadays, at the beginning of every New Year, many Americans hit the gym to work off their holiday feasts. This momentum usually starts to fade in mid-January, according to a 2019 analysis of data on fitness tracking apps by Bloomberg. But such new year’s resolutions are pretty new—as is the concept of exercise as a way to improve bodily health.

“It’s really not until the 1980s that you start to have a consensus that everybody should be doing some form of exercise,” says Mehlman Petrzela, a professor at the New School in New York City. That’s partly the result of the women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which fought for Title IX, allowing girls to play school sports. That pushed back on notions that girls and women aren’t capable of doing vigorous exercise because they’re fragile.

Perfect for reading on the treadmill or stationary bike, the below conversation with Mehlman Petrzela outlines the earliest ideas on exercise, delves into the history of various popular workouts, and the outsize influence of Richard Simmons.

Your book Fit Nation starts out by talking about how fat was something to aspire to and that was a sign of wealth and healthiness. How did Americans go from a mentality of “fat is good” to “skinny is better?”

One of the things I set out to do in this book is to look at the change in how we think about our bodies and what’s considered attractive. Until the 1920s or so, to be what would be considered today fat or bigger, was actually desirable and actually signified affluence—which is like the polar opposite of today, when so much of the obesity epidemic discourse is connected to socio-economic inequality and to be fat is often to be seen as to be poor.

How did that happen? Well, in a moment when actually there wasn’t a lot of access to caloric foods, to be fat showed that you could afford these things that were out of the reach of most people and also you could afford to rest, like you weren’t out there doing manual labor all day. As that caloric food became more accessible, and as more people were doing sedentary white-collar work and had access to cars and leisure, somebody who could resist those caloric foods, exercise, and have a thin body, was seen as more desirable.

What’s the most surprising thing you learned in your research?

It was super interesting reading the reflections of fitness enthusiasts in the early 20th century. They said we should get rid of corsets, corsets are an assault on women’s form, and that women should be lifting weights and gaining strength. At first, you feel like this is so progressive.

Then you keep reading, and they’re saying white women should start building up their strength because we need more white babies. They’re writing during an incredible amount of immigration, soon after enslaved people have been emancipated. This is totally part of a white supremacy project. So that was a real “holy crap” moment as a historian, where deep archival research really reveals the contradictions of this moment.

Your book talks about how, at one point, America’s focus was on exercising so we could have a population that was ready to go to war. What is health and fitness culture training us to do? How has that expectation evolved over time?

During the New Deal [of the 1930s], the Civilian Conservation Corps would recruit out-of-work or impoverished, scrawny men to go work in the forest and on public works projects. One of the ways that they marketed this was “it puts muscles on your bones.”

That really picked up during the Cold War. Right after World War II, you start to have more concern about Americans getting soft, this idea that the things that made America great—like cars and TV sets—were actually taking a toll on Americans’ bodies. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy went on a mission to make exercise look wholesome and patriotic and focus on shifting the purpose of exercise to being a good citizen and defending your country.

In the 1980s, there’s a huge boom in the fitness industry, connected to this “work hard, play hard” mentality. I was also really moved speaking to gay men who had lived through HIV/AIDS and talked about how they exercised to display that they had a healthy body at a moment when there was so much homophobia. Some gyms became like community centers, sharing medical information, almost like mutual aid societies.

Another big turning point is 9/11. You see a boom in the CrossFit mentality of almost like militarized fitness and girding yourself and your body for a fight—not necessarily, by the way, in the 1950s/1960s way of fighting for the U.S. Army—but more like “you need to know how to perform functional fitness to protect yourself if things go wrong.” At the same time, you see [an emphasis on] wellness, self care and healing and being meditative in an increasingly traumatic and unpredictable world.

What era of fitness are we in now?

Gym usage is rebounding rapidly since the pandemic [lockdown ordinances], but now it’s also really efficient for a lot of people to exercise at home. What’s so unfortunate about the pandemic is how much it accelerated fitness inequality. You can go home and be on your Peloton if you can afford it, if you have the space for it, but not everyone can.

I was meeting with somebody who’s very active in the New York City pickleball world, and you have all of these adults who want to do this inclusive recreational thing, and they’re competing with children who want to go out and skateboard and do basketball. Those are wonderful things, and we don’t have the public space to accommodate them.

Did you find an exercise that people don’t do now, but they did do in a certain period of history, that’s just comical to think about?

“Reducing machines” are a really good example of an exercise machine that just went away. Well into the 1960s, women were not encouraged to do any kind of strenuous exercise, but they were of course encouraged to do whatever it took to be beautiful and slim.

So you would either lie down like on a bed or stand with a belt around you, and the machines would shake your fat. They were meant to enhance circulation but also to shake away cellulite. Reducing machines were everywhere; people would buy them for their houses. There was one called the “magic couch” that every woman wanted for Christmas.

The idea that all bodies can exert themselves and work hard—including women’s bodies— is a really positive development, and it’s one of the reasons that you don’t see those passive exercise machines anymore.

How did running become a popular exercise in the 1970s? It’s often hailed as a great equalizer, an exercise everyone can do with hardly any gear required? Did you find that to be the case?

It became popular among environmentalists, people who were imagining what it would be like to be in a culture that was not centered around cars. The sneakers back then were pretty rudimentary—old work shoes with rubber soles.

But it’s important to point out that access was never totally equal, if you lived in a neighborhood that didn’t have safe streets or streets that were not well lit. Women were catcalled. People of color were thought to be committing a crime.

The “running is for everybody” discourse still quite often leaves out the fact that depending on where you live and the body that you live in, it can be a very different kind of experience.

Your book has so many interesting stories about the origins of various workouts. I learned that Pilates can be traced all the way back to World War I, when its founder, Joseph Pilates was detained on the Isle of Man and created resistance contraptions out of hospital beds to help prisoners of war keep up their muscle strength. How can the influence of Pilates be seen in today’s fitness culture?

That sets the foundation for the idea that exercise isn’t an indulgent little hobby some people have; it’s actually something that can keep you healthy. Joseph Pilates came to the United States, developing this system that he first called “Contrology,” and he became really an important part of the dance and performance community. And that did a lot to raise the bar on what fitness represented because, as I talk about at length, a lot of the cultural associations with fitness were like dank gymnasiums and big muscular men heaving weights.

It sounds like Pilates made exercise seem like something that could be graceful too.

Yes, Pilates’ studio on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan was [patronized by] opera stars and ballet dancers who are working on their bodily strength, so that did a lot to sanitize and upgrade the reputation of fitness. A lot of people embraced exercise as something that could make them look like a dancer.


Going into this book, the only famous fitness instructor I had heard of was Richard Simmons. How influential was he?

He’s really important in terms of shifting who was welcome in gyms. One of the reasons that he ended up starting his own studio is that he went to this very famous studio Gilda Marx, and he absolutely loved aerobics, but he was asked not to come back because women didn’t feel comfortable working out with a man who was singing and so emotive during his workout. And I think he opened a studio where everybody felt welcomed there, including fat people, who felt like they couldn’t step foot into a health club or a studio to take an aerobics class because no one looked like them there.

Today, you see quite a few fat people in the fitness industry, who are operating from a better perspective, which is that your body size does not necessarily dictate your fitness level. We should not presume that because you are fat, that you are not fit or that you want to lose weight. And I think that we probably couldn’t have had that without Richard Simmons.

What’s the future of fitness?

I would love for the future of fitness not only to be about [WiFi] connected treadmills and luxury clubs where people can go hang out and drink green juice after their workout, but rather for a collective public investment in making fitness and recreation available to everybody and much more accessible than it currently is. We do agree as a culture, for the most part, that exercise is good for you, but our policy environment has not caught up with that. We should acknowledge that that’s one of the few things that we can agree on in our culture, and then have a kind of bipartisan shared investment in better physical education, better recreation [spaces] for kids and adults.

The author being interviewed: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Spoiler: That smile

She has a TikTok:

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In other news, Splotchy has a new Instagram:

She's also still very mad about COVID

And finally, Fat Organizer is having a rough time.

Meanwhile, Lizzo irl:

 

[Dr. Butt]

She's really a fucking moron to cry fatphobia because of other characters looking at Charlie (the main character) with disdain instead of sympathizing with him as a character experiencing the exact fatphobia she's crying about.

Absolutely! I thought the movie depicted "Fatphobia" in a sympathetic way. It's ideologically "on the same side" as fat people. It just ALSO states that eating too much is how they got fat.

 

[Plantation Barbie]

Leah, COVID isn't stopping you from going out and having some fun, your own misery is.

 

[Thomas Eugene Paris]

Apologies as I'm sure I'm late as hell here, but I saw THE WHALE recently (pretty good film if not a little corny/overwrought at times) and it's been fun to watch the chimpouts on Twitter from the fatgirl cows.

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It's interesting to me because I thought the writer/director team did a pretty good job of showing the horrors of extreme food addiction and illness from obesity at its worst while still framing a very VERY likeable character with a kind heart who you are actively rooting for until the end. Nuance is really lost on these types, I fear.

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Or...maybe it's not meant to be representative of EVERY SINGLE FAT PERSON'S experiences?? The main character is frustrating in many ways, not just because he's 600+ pounds and refuses to get help for it. He's in denial about a lot, and well, that's his CHARACTER. It's made pretty clear that's him and it goes beyond his weight.

Speaking of, this absolute behemoth did this in response to that movie.

Spoiler: A real life whale

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I don't understand why they're so butthurt about The Whale. Brendan Fraser went full Method for the role and actually got fat. They are always bitching about hiring fat actors to play fat characters, but when it happens, they complain about it. They seem awfully dismissive of the fact that Brendan Fraser actually lived "in a fat body", as they like to put it, for months, even when the camera wasn't rolling. He has the *~*LiVeD ExPeRiEnCe, which we all know trumps all accepted theories, scientific data, and provable facts.

I honestly don't understand what exactly has their collective (and ample) panties in such a wad over this. Admittedly, I have not yet seen the film, but my understanding is that it's not a comedy and Fraser's character isn't supposed to be a buffoon - viewers aren't meant to laugh at the silly fat man, right? Anyone fat enough to be a "fat activist" on social media has to have experienced some kind of pain or struggle as a result of their weight. Are they so incapable of honest introspection that they truly cannot see something of themselves in a fat character, realistically portrayed? Would they have preferred that Fraser wear a fatsuit? Do they just hate him because he was very fit 25 years ago? What would make these people happy, aside from a Big Mac combo (super size it, bigot)?

Spoiler: Brendan Fraser sperg

Personally, I think it's awesome to see his return to acting. I find it very respectable that he stepped away from Hollywood as a young, fit, and attractive man, but even considered a comeback attempt decades later, knowing that people would feel the need to comment unkindly on the changes in his appearance wrought by the aging process. We all get old, if we are lucky, but most of us don't do it so publicly. I think his willingness to return to such an appearance-driven, superficial field actually speaks volumes about his courage and character. I'm looking forward to seeing him in film for years to come. He seems like a really nice guy, too. Just one of those profoundly decent dudes.

 

[Falcon Sebben]

Leah, COVID isn't stopping you from going out and having some fun, your own misery is.

If you looked like she did, you'd probably want to hide your fat, bloated ass inside as well.

 

[NoReturn]

Bekah tiem

 

[Dnein]

It's that time of year for FatScammerUK to chime in with "health" tips!

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it goes on and on and on.....lol why is eating less so complicated for these narcissists?

She has some huge balls to tell people to take a physiology course when she literally missed the entire class on adipose and it's fucking purpose. She is so absurdly wrong and so absurdly sick to spin lies like this. How do you get an MD and not realize the primary point of fat is to be utilized as energy, more complicated metabolic information is taught to first year nursing students.

In no way does the body EVER target muscles first, and all the effects she claims (depression, malaise) actually result from obesity and it's inflammatory effect. Your muscles are dying under the sedentary fat, ffs, and losing weight and moving would be the one thing that can stop it. This is like saying someone would burn down a house to warm it instead of using the giant pile of firewood they have outside. The body is not as stupid as she wants it to be. It stores energy, it uses stored energy.

If the body attacked muscles first, our species would have never survived. We need muscles to move. We evolved to stay alive, so we evolved to keep moving. We need energy to use muscles. We have tissue DESIGNED to store and release energy specifically to maintain those muscles. What the fuck does this "doctor" propose fat is, then, if not energy storage? A fucking cancer?

Editing to say I see she did admit at the top it was for energy, then proceeded anyway with the muscle wasting bullshit. Reducing calories to less than excess is not starvation, and never will be. Calling it starvation is not only a scientific fallacy, it's pissing on every human that has ever known and suffered true starvation and you sit with so much excess your suffocating under it.

 

[Thomas Eugene Paris]

She has some huge balls to tell people to take a physiology course when she literally missed the entire class on adipose and it's fucking purpose. She is so absurdly wrong and so absurdly sick to spin lies like this. How do you get an MD and not realize the primary point of fat is to be utilized as energy, more complicated metabolic information is taught to first year nursing students.

In no way does the body EVER target muscles first, and all the effects she claims (depression, malaise) actually result from obesity and it's inflammatory effect. Your muscles are dying under the sedentary fat, ffs, and losing weight and moving would be the one thing that can stop it. This is like saying someone would burn down a house to warm it instead of using the giant pile of firewood they have outside. The body is not as stupid as she wants it to be. It stores energy, it uses stored energy.

If the body attacked muscles first, our species would have never survived. We need muscles to move. We evolved to stay alive, so we evolved to keep moving. We need energy to use muscles. We have tissue DESIGNED to store and release energy specifically to maintain those muscles. What the fuck does this "doctor" propose fat is, then, if not energy storage? A fucking cancer?

Editing to say I see she did admit at the top it was for energy, then proceeded anyway with the muscle wasting bullshit. Reducing calories to less than excess is not starvation, and never will be. Calling it starvation is not only a scientific fallacy, it's pissing on every human that has ever known and suffered true starvation and you sit with so much excess your suffocating under it.

This bitch and Devon Price are legitimately dangerous. I can't even laugh at them, no matter how much I might want to. The other deathfats are just clowns in an echo chamber disguised as a tiny, garishly colored car. They're funny and I like to laugh at them. There's nothing amusing about Natasha Larmie or Devon Price (who is not a fucking doctor).

It's incredibly frightening to think that there are people who read this shit and don't realize the entire premise is faulty.

 

[Ginger_beer]

This bitch and Devon Price are legitimately dangerous. I can't even laugh at them, no matter how much I might want to. The other deathfats are just clowns in an echo chamber disguised as a tiny, garishly colored car. They're funny and I like to laugh at them. There's nothing amusing about Natasha Larmie or Devon Price (who is not a fucking doctor).

It's incredibly frightening to think that there are people who read this shit and don't realize the entire premise is faulty.

Laramie in particular makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, even on video. In real life I'd be backing away because she strikes me as unhinged enough to be physically dangerous. Granted, the nonsense she's spouting online is far more broadly dangerous, but she gives off such strong vibes of "seriously disturbed and unmedicated". I don't know how other people can watch/listen and not be repelled, but obviously she has an audience who are desperate to have their delusions pandered to.

 

[PurpleEater]

Found a new fun one on TikTok (@no.niche.therapy) who's also a therapist (and a self-proclaimed "queer clinician," whatever that means, and thinks "queer clinicians" are better on average). From what I can tell she seems like a bored housewife who makes TikToks all day to promote her brand of "body positivity," complain about fatphobia and "educate" about therapy. She rants about the typical FA/body positive shtick but she's just so delightfully cringe, self-obsessed and annoying I had to share.

I chose some of the lulziest recent ones:

Spoiler: more lulz bellow

 

[AirdropShitposts]

This is the logical end result of a steady diet of children's media and wokeism. Their only idea of a good movie is "type of people I like are superheroes. type of people I don't like are villains. all dialog must involve sassy, quoteable punching up from marginalized hero to privileged villain that I can later make into a reaction gif to use on twitter"

Like I thought the movie was cheesy and cliché but jfc. She's really a fucking moron to cry fatphobia because of other characters looking at Charlie (the main character) with disdain instead of sympathizing with him as a character experiencing the exact fatphobia she's crying about. The bits about his food obsession must have hit too close to home or something, seems like she's projecting her own shame onto the movie more than anything else.

I don't understand why they're so butthurt about The Whale. Brendan Fraser went full Method for the role and actually got fat. They are always bitching about hiring fat actors to play fat characters, but when it happens, they complain about it. They seem awfully dismissive of the fact that Brendan Fraser actually lived "in a fat body", as they like to put it, for months, even when the camera wasn't rolling. He has the *~*LiVeD ExPeRiEnCe, which we all know trumps all accepted theories, scientific data, and provable facts.

I honestly don't understand what exactly has their collective (and ample) panties in such a wad over this. Admittedly, I have not yet seen the film, but my understanding is that it's not a comedy and Fraser's character isn't supposed to be a buffoon - viewers aren't meant to laugh at the silly fat man, right? Anyone fat enough to be a "fat activist" on social media has to have experienced some kind of pain or struggle as a result of their weight. Are they so incapable of honest introspection that they truly cannot see something of themselves in a fat character, realistically portrayed? Would they have preferred that Fraser wear a fatsuit? Do they just hate him because he was very fit 25 years ago? What would make these people happy, aside from a Big Mac combo (super size it, bigot)?

Spoiler: Brendan Fraser sperg

Personally, I think it's awesome to see his return to acting. I find it very respectable that he stepped away from Hollywood as a young, fit, and attractive man, but even considered a comeback attempt decades later, knowing that people would feel the need to comment unkindly on the changes in his appearance wrought by the aging process. We all get old, if we are lucky, but most of us don't do it so publicly. I think his willingness to return to such an appearance-driven, superficial field actually speaks volumes about his courage and character. I'm looking forward to seeing him in film for years to come. He seems like a really nice guy, too. Just one of those profoundly decent dudes.

It's part of the kafka trap they specialize in. If the movie made Frasier into a happy jolly fat guy who everyone loved they could attack it for not addressing the struggles associated with fatphobia and leaning into "fat stereotypes" or whatever. It's the same trick they pull where they'll suggest that no movie should portray this (or whatever else) because of X reason and then also complain that movies aren't providing enough representation for the group. Trying to focus on the last part won't satisfy them because they'll say something like "sure, this movie may have a fat star but that doesn't do anything to address the harm caused by the century of movies with thins promoting genocide" and if you made a movie of nothing but fat people they'd probably find something to complain about (like maybe the villain being fat) there too. These people do the same shit with Black representation or queer representation or anything else, to drift slightly from the fats I've seen them pretend that guys like Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy, Samuel L. Jackson or Tyler Perry (to select just five) aren't/weren't major movie stars who have headlined blockbusters and have been for decades because they're so wedded to their claim that Black people can't succeed in Hollywood/America/humanity/etc. Their one goal is finding something problematic because that's what advances them in their social group.

 

[NoReturn]

Splotchy on a spree:

Spoiler: Way more spoilered for length

Bekah's new years resolution should be to get off social media

 

[forgotten corn]

Love this new bit of Bekah lore that she didn’t have many friends at uni. Probably just another thing that added to her blowing up in the past few years.

 

[Dnein]

Splotchy on a spree:

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I am so fucking sick of this claim. "You are trying to eradicate us" "genocide". Fuck your fat entitled victim complex. This pathology effects your body whether you admit it or not. Even if they deny or misattribute all the "invisible" effects on the heart, other organs, vasculature, metabolism, hormone balance, etc, there are undeniable, immediately observable physical limitations to joint movement, mobility, skin health, and even breathing.

Are people also trying genocide when they want to eradicate cancer or diseases like measels? Is it genocide to want to restore movement to paraplegics? Is treating depression genocide too? Trying to cure a pathology is not trying to erase a person, it is trying to help your fucking selfish, melodramatic asshole. Clearly we need to eradicate BPD and NPD in the process of fixing this shit, but that's probably also a deep, Holocaust-level insult to their specialness as well.

As if these ghouls wouldn't pop the magic insta-skinny pill if it existed as well. Oh boo hoo self eradication! Literally like suicide to live as a healthier version of themselves.

 

[Clusterfuckk2]

Leah, COVID isn't stopping you from going out and having some fun, your own misery is.

Her covid fanaticism is the biggest reason I hate her

 

[MetalParakeet]

It's weird how this "movement" went from simply, "Don't bug me about dieting. I don't want to, I'd probably fail, and it's none of your business," to "Science proves diets do not work and even talking about dieting is dangerous!"

Their message is always so murky and double-sided. They acknowledge that binging is a bad thing when they warn against dieting- "Restriction leads to binging! You'll have 2, then 4, then..." But they also say that anything edible is nutritious and wonderful, and you should eat as much as your body tells you.

Dieting can cause "fatigue, low mood, irritability, difficulty concentrating, hair loss, skin and nail changes, GI symptoms"? Funny, obesity causes all of those problems as well, and you seem ok with that.

It's like if smokers switched from "I know it's unhealthy but I want to do it anyway" to "well big science just wants me to spend loads of money on nicotine patches, and most attempts to quit fail anyway so stop shaming me because I'm healthy *cough cough*

 

[Stupid Lisa Garbageface]

If being fat constitutes your whole personality I can see where anti-obesity efforts would seem like they’re coming after you as a human being.

 

[Falcon Sebben]

If being fat constitutes your whole personality I can see where anti-obesity efforts would seem like they’re coming after you as a human being.

These cows don't want to be thought of only as being fat and yet that's the only thing that truly defines them.

The thing that they want to ignore is the only reason we know a thing about them.