Fat Acceptance Movement / Fat Girlcows

[AnOminous]

I like how they made Daria more curvy/conventionally attractive. Wouldn't that be taking away representation of lanky girls who are self-conscious about their chicken legs? Maybe even... tranny girls?? See how easy it is to turn their "logic" (read: bullshit) against them?

Especially since that exactly describes Daria. It's actually an important part of her character that she's self-conscious, cynical and alienated.

 

[RIck Sanchez]

I always though Shaggy was supposed to be "dorky beanpole" skinny, anyway, not "unrealistic beauty standards!" skinny.

If you watched Scooby-Doo and the message you took away from it was to look like Shaggy, you should not be writing about media.

 

[Mrs Paul]

I like how they made Daria more curvy/conventionally attractive. Wouldn't that be taking away representation of lanky girls who are self-conscious about their chicken legs? Maybe even... tranny girls?? See how easy it is to turn their "logic" (read: bullshit) against them?

Feminists hate trannies, remember? They're not REAL women.

And how many teenage girls were self-conscious because they weren't developing as fast as their peers were? Well, maybe not 12th graders, but back in middle school, you were always anxious about NOT being the only one who wasn't wearing a bra yet, the only one not getting your period, or shaving your legs. The joke was about who stuffed her bra. (Anyone remember the chant, "Roses are red, violets are black, why is your chest as flat as your back?")

I'm not saying there isn't the fashion and beauty industry doesn't have a fucked up view when it comes to body images. Hollywood can especially be brutal. But c'mon, video games, cartoons, dolls? Bitch please.

 

[Human Institute Director]

It's also not impossible for teens to have muscular bodies, just not healthy. Not to mention DBZ is a fantasy series. These people take these things too seriously.

Not to mention that this ripped kid is supposedly the strongest in the universe at that point. If you can blow up the solar system, you probably can have a muscular torso.
Also, poor Shaggy. They ruined him.

 

[Mrs Paul]

Shaggy's skinny because he's a fucking pothead. Duh.

 

[Ghost Dog]

http://www.projectknow.com/discover/reverse-photoshopping-cartoons/

Yeah, it's another one of those stupid articles complaining that fantasy characters don't represent reality.

Even so, his lanky form, thin legs, and wiry arms don’t bear much resemblance to a typical teen today.

Probably because typical teens are not circus acrobats. And I think the point of Shaggy was to say; "Wow look at that skinny guy eat all that shit! That fucker even eats dog treats!" I also think Fred and Daphne would have caused more body 'issues'.

Daria is really the only reasonable comparison of the bunch, how hard would it have been to find other normal, human, sedentary child/teen characters. Not characters fighting aliens or running from guys in spooky costumes.

 

[Trombonista]

"The manga series “Dragon Ball” is a popular one that has sparked movies and even a television sequel called “Dragon Ball Z.” Sporting spiked hair and clad in either a school uniform or a martial arts uniform, Gohan, the son of the protagonist, is clearly a teen (although his true age numbers into the hundreds). However, teens are unlikely to see their physique being reflected in his defined chest and arms that ripple with muscles."

This person has never watched DBZ.

Fun fact: Gohan was 9/11 in the Cell Saga (manga/anime, respectively). The only possible reason to list him here is because the English versions of the video games call him Teen Gohan.

All the photoshops seem to be either making them wider or removing cleavage/muscles. They're so lazy.

 

[Axiom]

Feminists hate trannies, remember? They're not REAL women.

And how many teenage girls were self-conscious because they weren't developing as fast as their peers were? Well, maybe not 12th graders, but back in middle school, you were always anxious about NOT being the only one who wasn't wearing a bra yet, the only one not getting your period, or shaving your legs. The joke was about who stuffed her bra. (Anyone remember the chant, "Roses are red, violets are black, why is your chest as flat as your back?")

I'm not saying there isn't the fashion and beauty industry doesn't have a fucked up view when it comes to body images. Hollywood can especially be brutal. But c'mon, video games, cartoons, dolls? Bitch please.

Adolescence is all about developing normally and still thinking you must be a freak of nature.

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

My girlfriend's brother is 14 and is a little beefcake because he plays hockey. If I remember right, characters in Dragonball Z were doing pushups wearing weighted clothes in 100x gravity. My girlfriend's brother is 14 and is a little beefcake because he plays hockey and works out. I don't find it at all surprising that these people would rather put more effort into drawing these super athletic characters in a way that more "accurately represents" them than actually do any work to even try to look more like the characters.

 

[MarineTrainedTard]

Also Gohan is half-space-monkey and also a fucking cartoon character Jesus fucking Christ

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Some of those redesigns don't even look that different from the original look...Not to mention cartoons often are supposed to be drawn unrealistically and very stylized.

EDIT: Maybe it's just me, but I don't get the whole "wah i feel wrong for being fat bc cartoons make me insecure". Is this such a big problem? Power level but most fat people I've known say that their issues come from either bullying/teasing from friends, school or family or feeling insecure while walking out in the streets and being judged by "prettier" people. Cartoons and media barely seem to play a part in this.

It's easier to yell at media and hope enough people join into the chorus so the forces that be start to decide to pander to your shit than changing the actual perception and behaviour of society at large.

Needless to say, forcing some studio to add a token fat character or even creating a landwhale-pandering show has pretty much no effect on anything ever.

 

[Pina Colada]

Spoiler: Expertise on expansion

 

[AnOminous]

Spoiler: Expertise on expansion

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That's like saying smokers are experts on cancer. Being fat only means you utterly failed at not being fat.

 

[sparklemilhouse]

Aren't most of these fat acceptance movement people college aged? With the exception of a few.


Once you hit your 30s, you begin to realize that being fat (unless it's Pcos, or medicine related) is all your fault, nobody else's. It's my fault that I look like this, it's my fault that people treat me like garbage, it's my fault that I pretty much drag 2 people around with me every day.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Once you hit your 30s, you begin to realize that being fat (unless it's Pcos, or medicine related) is all your fault, nobody else's. It's my fault that I look like this, it's my fault that people treat me like garbage, it's my fault that I pretty much drag 2 people around with me every day.

I invite you to visit one of my extended family reunions if you'd like to see a bunch of middle-aged people blame everyone but themselves for their own shortcomings and failures to achieve anything. I think if you can scrounge enough reinforcement for your bullshit beliefs while becoming a young adult (or even just slip your way out of meaningful consequences), it can be very easy for a person to lock themselves into a never-my-fault siege mentality for the long term.

Fun fact: Gohan was 9/11 in the Cell Saga

I totally misread this at first.

 

[WhoopieDoo]

Once you hit your 30s, you begin to realize that being fat (unless it's Pcos, or medicine related) is all your fault, nobody else's. It's my fault that I look like this, it's my fault that people treat me like garbage, it's my fault that I pretty much drag 2 people around with me every day.

True.

Unless your last name is Slaton:

She [Tammy] successfully lost over 100 pounds once by being sent to a nursing home where her diet was strictly controlled. Amy said she gained back 100 pounds several weeks after she left the nursing facility. According to Amy, however, Tammy does not overeat and therefore the cause of their obesity is unknown.

 

[VJ 120]

"Skinny people aren't the experts on fat people's bodies!!"
? so where do people who earned (see: lost a shit ton of weight) fit into that equation exactly? It's like they absolutely cannot fathom people attempting to do something with their lives. They've completely written off anyone who can do it because they once tried dieting for a day and thought it was too hard.

 

[Dr. Boe Jangles Esq.]

Aren't most of these fat acceptance movement people college aged? With the exception of a few.


Once you hit your 30s, you begin to realize that being fat (unless it's Pcos, or medicine related) is all your fault, nobody else's. It's my fault that I look like this, it's my fault that people treat me like garbage, it's my fault that I pretty much drag 2 people around with me every day.

I think it's because it's very easy to talk about how being fat isn't a problem when you're young and it isn't killing you yet.
Talking about how proud you are of your body after your 3rd bypass when your knees have given out and you have to roll around on a rascal while the kids make fun of you? Little more difficult to maintain that ideological fervor.

 

[AnOminous]

"Skinny people aren't the experts on fat people's bodies!!"

Most doctors seem to be pretty skinny, so yes, they are.

 

[Mrs Paul]

Yet they consider themselves experts on skinny peoples' bodies. Go figure.