Fat Acceptance Movement / Fat Girlcows

[SassyAndMorbidlyObese]

WTF? I thought the whole point of keto was to have extremely low carb intake in addition to lots of fat and protein. How do waffles and syrup fit in there?

Keto frankenfood. I assume the waffles are made with almond flour. Along with a vat of sugarfree pancake syrup.

 

[AbraCadaver]

No one has brought up this fat fuck Sonalee Rashatwar in this thread according to search.

The Sad Truth About ‘Fat Acceptance’
written by Anna Slatz

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Last week, self-described queer non-binary “fat sex therapist” Sonalee Rashatwar delivered a two-hour lecture entitled Race as a Body Image Issue at the St. Olaf College Health and Wellness Center in Minnesota. The event was a master class in social justice, at times putting shame to the parodies of the genre that now traffic on social media. In the video, the visibly obese woman asks: “Is it my fatness that causes my high blood pressure—or is it my experience of weight stigma?” In the presentation, which has gone viral, Rashatwar also compared “fatphobia” not only to eugenics (which is itself absurd) but also to “Nazi science,” and declared that “a child cannot consent to being on a diet the same way a child cannot consent to having sex.” Indeed, the very titles of her recurring presentations—including Health is a Social Construct, Decolonizing Sex Positivity, Gender Isn’t Real and Neither Is Healthand How Fat Queers the Body—seem like something you’d find on the Twitter feed of satirists such as Titania McGrath or Madeline Seers. Yet Rashatwar can’t be dismissed as just another social-media kook—for she is regularly invited to speak to actual health experts at numerous universities across North America, including, recently, medical students at the University of Texas. The listed speaking fee on her web site is US$5,000. (She also specifies that “travel arrangements should not be made on Sonalee’s behalf by the host organization due to her disability needs.”)

At St. Olaf, Rashatwar began with a Native land acknowledgement—which, as a Canadian, I found odd: Obesity is a huge problem for Indigenous people. In Canada, 37% of reserve-resident First Nations people are obese. In the United States, it is estimated that 60-80% of American Indigenous and Alaska Natives are overweight or obese, and more than 30% are in a diabetic or pre-diabetic state. What allows her to compartmentalize the issues of Indigenous welfare and obesity, I suppose, is her belief that the goal of avoiding extra poundage is a “white supremacist beauty ideal.” She informs audiences that “I come from an exclusively pro-body and anti-diet perspective. This means I will never use food moralism to tell you to replace foods you love with foods you hate. I will never use intentional weight loss as a therapeutic goal. I will never collude with fatphobia in our therapeutic work.” In layman’s terms, this apparently seems to boil down to accepting—or even celebrating—obesity as part of a normal healthy lifestyle.

Watching Rashatwar’s heavy breathing and frequent labored pauses made me flinch with recognition. I still have an audio recording from the days when I was 100 pounds heavier than I am today. I huffed the same way. I can envision what that breathing pattern would become if Rashatwar—or the old version of me—were forced to climb a set of stairs. The pain in the chest, the attempt to mask how desperately air was needed between closed lips, delaying the frantic heaving until no one was around—I remember it all. Yet Rashatwar dismisses such concerns as artifacts of “white-settler colonialism,” and, in her speech, claimed that “my fat doesn’t make my life hard to live. It’s fatphobia that makes my life hard to live.” Unfortunately, gravity wasn’t invented by white settlers. Nor do the rules that govern the human cardiopulmonary system operate according to skin colour.

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Rashatwar claims she is a “survivor” of fatphobia. I am a survivor of fat. I share her use of the word “survivor” because when I was standing at 4’10” and 300 pounds, my obesity almost took my life. A kinesthesiologist friend told me that the physical toll on my body was the equivalent of more than 400 pounds of weight on an average woman. I had sleep apnea to the point where I woke up with headaches every morning due to lack of oxygen. I had developed the characteristic black ring of dying, diabetic flesh around my neck. My menstrual cycle had abated completely, and the smallest amount of activity—going to the laundry room in my apartment complex—had become so difficult that I was forcing family members to do mundane tasks on my behalf.

I don’t use the word “phobia” to describe how other people regarded me. But, yes, I do remember feeling a crippling sense of social shame. I remember being unable to shop in any normal store for clothes. I remember sitting in my university lecture hall, unable to close the flip-desk over my lap because I was simply too big. I also remember the indescribable sadness that came with all these things, which sometimes compelled me to seek out figures such as Rashatwar, who offered some hope of lessening my sadness. For she is not alone: There’s a whole movement out there called Health at Every Size (HAES)—sometimes classified as a doctrinal sub-branch of the “fat acceptance movement.” I had a very brief flirt with HAES after becoming angry at just how excluded I was, how worthless I felt as a human being in the eyes of others.

I don’t agree with most of what Rashatwar says, and I do believe her faddish, social-justice approach to health is nonsensical. But as someone who has survived morbid obesity, and who solidly believes in the benefits of healthy living, I also oppose the way anti-HAES advocates (or, in many cases, trolls) attack or mock those who embrace HAES ideas. In online forums, one can observe a cycle by which strident anti-HAES critics cause defensive-minded HAES advocates to cling to their “fat acceptance” notions all the more insistently.

On this, Rashatwar and I agree: People have an inherent value, no matter their weight, and no one should ever be mocked, abused, or excluded on the basis of how they look. An acknowledgement must also be made to the effect that losing weight is tremendously difficult for many people, as studies have demonstrated that the foods that contribute most to weight gain behave like drugs in our system. You can be addicted to certain kinds of foods in a very real sense. Many morbidly obese people, myself still included, have food addictions or binge-eating disorders. These are real psycho-medical concerns that are still poorly understood with few effective medical interventions.

But there are also other equally indisputable truths regarding human health that Rashatwar and many HEAS advocates dangerously deny. And one of them is that being obese will make you die earlier, regardless of how enlightened everyone around you might be, or how effectively we wage war against “fatphobia.”

I can attest that Rashatwar is correct when she says that medical practitioners often gloss over an overweight patient’s medical concerns, and instead lecture them simplistically to “lose weight.” Rashatwar mentions the case of Ellen Maud Bennette, a 64-year-old Canadian woman who died of cancer. Her obituary noted that doctors had stood by for years without delivering proper oncological care, because they were more concerned with hectoring her about her weight. By the time Bennette was diagnosed, she was terminal. But it is misleading to focus on anecdotes without also noting that 18% of all deaths in the United States are obesity-related—something Rashatwar seems to ignore. If a doctor does all the necessary tests on a patient, and the recommendation still boils down to “lose weight”—as it sometimes does—is this still “fatphobia”?

Like other members of the HAES movement, Rashatwar effectively argues that since problems such as coronary artery disease and diabetes can be addressed through medical interventions, it’s discriminatory to tell patients that they should instead change their body size through diet and exercise. But even a layperson knows that this core claim is ridiculous, because the two approaches aren’t mutually exclusive: Healthy living that promotes strong baseline health levels is entirely consistent with drugs, surgeries and medical therapies that cure or palliate the ailments we all inevitably contract. And so it amazes me that medical students can sit through Rashatwar’s lectures with a straight face.

After decrying the differentiation between different kinds of food, and peddling the fiction that all foods present equal nutritional benefit to the body, Rashatwar stated in her St. Olaf speech that the Christian-supremacist concept of “purity” had contaminated our conception of food and health, and noted that “we see parallel conversations in the denial of sex as pleasure and food as pleasure.” This is nonsense on the level of her Nazi metaphors—and seemed especially absurd when juxtaposed against Rashatwar’s respectful posture toward Indigenous peoples—for it is universally understood that the introduction of heavy refined starches and sugars to the Indigenous people of North America was a chief contributor to high obesity rates and other poor health outcomes. Was it “fatphobia” when, in 2015, the Navajo/Diné nation imposed a tax on junk food and sugary drinks to curb the popularity of refined, fatty foods in their territories? Are Indigenous activists who advocate for healthy forms of traditional eating fatphobic? What about those who share Rashatwar’s South Asian ancestry? Many are raising concerns about the introduction of Western-style foods, and one would assume this is a more authentic approach to local health needs than Rashatwar’s apparent insistence that KFC and Domino’s Pizza are on the same nutritional plane as fresh vegetables and lean meats.

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Rashatwar’s repeated use of the word pleasure to describe our relationship with food struck a chord with me. Food is a source of joy, certainly, especially when it is shared with others. But her apparent suggestion that it exists on the level of sex, and even love, seems a recipe for sadness and loneliness. When I was heavier, food was a coping mechanism, a codependent false friend, like a pack of cigarettes. It didn’t judge, and always gave me a rush. Rashatwar’s insistence that it’s “fatphobia”—as opposed to actually being fat—that keeps her from leading a full life sounds like the internal negotiating script of an addict. The task of losing weight forces an obese person to deny themselves the passing pleasures associated with certain food. Rashatwar’s workaround is to externalize the problem—by insisting that society implement infinite accommodations for an infinitely growing body. On a psychological level, Rashatwar’s approach also allows her to channel negative feelings into defiance, and even anger—which are easier feelings to manage than shame, guilt or sadness. Her ideology provides a shield from bad feelings, at the expense of the body’s health needs.

I cannot presume to know what will become of Sonalee Rashatwar, long may she live. If she ever does decide to lose weight, I hope she is successful in that journey. But Rashatwar should be forewarned that, as with ex-HAES plus-sized model Rosie Marcado, who received death threats after losing 240 pounds, the pleasure-seeking monster she helped create will never forgive her. For it is not just food that can seize us in the claws of addiction, but also the seductive ideologies that offer license to consume it with self-destructive abandon.

Anna Slatz is a Canadian writer. Follow her on Twitter at @YesThatAnna.

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TLDR, fat fuck Sonalee Rashatwar uses social justice tropes to justify her morbid obesity. Putting children on non-consensual diets is abuse. Thinness is a white supremacist beauty ideal. College presentation goes viral.

I’M FAT BECAUSE WHITE PEOPLE.

Bold opinion

 

[moron]

Is Jude even 25 years old? And she's already crippled by weird obesity-related muscle and joint problems. She clearly resents people who want to lose weight because she wants everyone to be trapped by pain like she is. Sadistic, self-centered creep.

How the hell does any normal fat person even get swept up in FAS. All the leaders are ill, disabled, or close to being disabled. How can anyone take these morons seriously when all of them look like shit.

 

[rocknrollmartian]

How the hell does any normal fat person even get swept up in FAS. All the leaders are ill, disabled, or close to being disabled. How can anyone take these morons seriously when all of them look like shit.

It's akin to brainwashing and other cultish tactics. People first get into FA because it seems so welcoming and accepting and, let's face it, because losing weight can be really hard for people who are very lazy, don't want to stop eating garbage, and don't want to put in the work and dedication it takes to drop 50+ pounds. But as these people get deeper and deeper into FA, they're repeatedly told that losing weight is not only a betrayal but literally impossible. Once people like Jude feel like improving their lives through weight loss is futile, they start spreading the cancer and recruit other vulnerable, desperate people so they're not the only ones who are suffering from obvious obesity-related conditions, chronic pain, and social rejection.

Just a few years ago many who were part of FA but noticeably sick or aging were sort of pushed aside, hidden away, repackaged as "disability activists," or cast as anomalous while the spotlight shifted to new young people whose bodies hadn't yet been completely destroyed by obesity; FA would try to focus on someone glamorous and ambitious like Gabi Gregg to represent and temper the movement, much to the chagrin of gross hags like Fat Heffalump. But now that it's more and more acceptable to be a whiny, bitchy Munchie-like SJW freak on Instagram and Twitter as well as Tumblr, that seems to be happening less, making wretched assholes like Jude the uncensored face of FA, which is an interesting turn of events.

 

[Diet Coke 4 Life]

550 pounds for FatByJen
600 for Amber
400+ for Chantal
Combined they weigh more than a group of employees in an office. Imagine that.

Because I'm a cyclist fag, I decided to do the math.

Taking the average weight of a TdF climber at approximately 135 lbs, a sprinter at 165 and a time trialist at 150, we're assuming an average weight of 150 lbs. Now assume the UCI weight limit cycle of 15 lbs.

Combined these three ladies weigh as much as:
All 6 riders of a Tour de France team
The bikes those riders ride
The backup bikes the car is carrying
The time trial bikes that are kept at the team bus (yes, this makes 18 bicycles)
PLUS the support car's rider and team manager, assuming they weigh 160 lbs each.

They weigh as much as Team Ineos, minus the bus and support car. Impressive.

 

[Twinkie]

I don't really agree that it's brainwashing. It's a bunch of narcissists who believe the world should bend to their views. It doesn't matter how destructive and damaging the movement is especially to young people. Who cares about the childhood obesity epidemic? All that's important is MY feelings. Nothing matters except for ME being made to feel bad about MY weight.

 

[Aldora]

Fat girl logic: With keto you don't have to count calories, so you can eat twices as much!

 

[rocknrollmartian]

I don't really agree that it's brainwashing. It's a bunch of narcissists who believe the world should bend to their views. It doesn't matter how destructive and damaging the movement is especially to young people. Who cares about the childhood obesity epidemic? All that's important is MY feelings. Nothing matters except for ME being made to feel bad about MY weight.

Well, I certainly agree that narcissism is involved, lol. I still think FA feels cultish, but of course it doesn't really have defined leaders, just thousands of self-destructive narcissists. FA is creepiest to me when it attempts to shift medical definitions and scientific truths and castigates those who decide to lose weight/"betray the group." The FA idea that pathologizing obesity, not obesity itself, is the real problem is completely insane and heavily relies on unorthodox groupthink, even if the immediate goal is just to spare one fatty's feelings.

But any way you slice it, it's fucked up.

 

[cheese shaped mouse]

Is Jude even 25 years old? And she's already crippled by weird obesity-related muscle and joint problems. She clearly resents people who want to lose weight because she wants everyone to be trapped by pain like she is. Sadistic, self-centered creep.

Jude is 22, turning 23 this month.

Jude sperging out on Instagram roundup.

mermaidqueenjude
I guess I'm shadowbanned. Because I posted a photo of me in a bikini, which is what I'm doing to heal my relationship with my body.
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Because @instagram is continuing to silence queer, fat, poc creators. Even when we're not breaking the rules. Even when we're doing everything right.
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Me in a bikini is not sexual. You taking away my livelihood and connection to my audience is critical.
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If you can see this, comment an emoji and go like any posts that IG hid from you.
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Also boost this?
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[Jet Fuel Johnny]

Seeing these people struggle to do everyday shit just amazes me.

I know people who were basically scraped up with a spatula and put back together with military tape and wishes, who aren't as in shit condition as these heifers.

Christ, one dude I know is missing a fucking leg and a couple of internal organs and he can walk around Wal-Mart on his fucking bionic leg better than these bitches can get out of their wheelchair and lumber to a fucking scale.

I'd be fucking embarrassed to be in my 20's and in worse condition than a guy who basically set off an IED with his fucking boots.

Back in the 70's and 80's it wasn't this bad. Hell, the "fat kid" back then was like Chunk from the Goonies or a "mini-fat" by these people's standards. Half of them were defensive linemen if they were guys and if girls still worked at getting the weight down, and we're talking trailer park/projects girls who food and casual sex was the closest they'd gotten to love.

We had just has much fatty bullshit snacks, breakfasts that consisted of 3 eggs, a hash-brown with butter and/or gravy, 5 strips of fucking bacon, and a biscuit, topped off with orange juice or milk, and we didn't seem to have the massive amount of people so fat they look like they're melting.

And it's more than poverty. Hell, when you're REALLY poor, you eat rice and shitty 60%/40% hamburger/fat "meat", cheap ass vegetables you got at the farmer's market or from a roadside or out of the Nickle's ads, and potatoes. Lots and lots of fucking potatoes. Mashed, fried, sliced, diced, boiled, steamed. With butter, sour cream, green onions, made a dozen different ways and served with a smile and a glass of orange juice you made with the oranges that you bought from the Mexican dude by the offramp. (Source: Being a poorfag more than a few times)

With foodstamps you can buy better. Hell, you can make fucking feasts (boiled chicken breast then fried in oil with bread-crumb coating made from the bread heels that got a bit too dry, stir fried rice, steamed broccoli with pepper-jack cheese sauce) with food stamps.

The fact these fat hamplanets sit and whine about Western Civilization when the only reason they aren't some poor ass black dude in Africa with his ribs showing, wearing canvas pants and a burlap potato bag for a shirt with shoes made out of old tires, running on 800 calories a day is because Western Civilization has such largess that we can afford to keep these fat fuckers not only alive, but eating enough to support an entire High School Cross Country Team just by themselves.

"Healthy At Any Size" AKA "Eat Fast, Die Young, Leave a Fat Corpse, Cause a Mortuary Grease Fire."

EDIT: LOL Word filter "Hash.bro.wn" is "A BIG BLACK DICK"... well, that was what some girls had for breakfast, but I ain't gonna kinkshame.

 

[A Owl]

If you have ever been to Six Flags over HotLanta they have a ride called Monster Mansion. It’s been there forever and it’s for kids but there is this fat big lipped monster doing a smoochie face in the kissing booth during this ride. Here is a photo of it View attachment 871765

Hang on a minute...

 

[Boson]

I wonder how the HAES activists would react or justify Mayra Rosales’ weight and condition. What mental gymnastics would they use on this former “infinifat”?

 

[FitBitch]

I wonder how the HAES activists would react or justify Mayra Rosales’ weight and condition. What mental gymnastics would they use on this former “infinifat”?

Well, "I can't lose weight, I have a thyroid condition" isn't going to cut it. "It's impossible to lose weight and keep it off?" Wrong again, she's still losing and her habits don't look to be sending her back over 1,000 pounds any time soon. "It's not sustainable to lose weight quickly" 100 pounds in 10 days, bitches, get on her level. "She must hate her body" sure did, that's why she fixed it. I can't think of a single argument I've heard against weight loss that she doesn't disprove, all that's left is the good old ad hominim, "She's supporting diet culture" and I've never had it satisfactorily explained to me why eating healthier is bad. It's all "muh Western beauty standards" bullshit.

 

[thejackal]

Seeing these people struggle to do everyday shit just amazes me.

I know people who were basically scraped up with a spatula and put back together with military tape and wishes, who aren't as in shit condition as these heifers.

Christ, one dude I know is missing a fucking leg and a couple of internal organs and he can walk around Wal-Mart on his fucking bionic leg better than these bitches can get out of their wheelchair and lumber to a fucking scale.

I'd be fucking embarrassed to be in my 20's and in worse condition than a guy who basically set off an IED with his fucking boots.

Back in the 70's and 80's it wasn't this bad. Hell, the "fat kid" back then was like Chunk from the Goonies or a "mini-fat" by these people's standards. Half of them were defensive linemen if they were guys and if girls still worked at getting the weight down, and we're talking trailer park/projects girls who food and casual sex was the closest they'd gotten to love.

We had just has much fatty bullshit snacks, breakfasts that consisted of 3 eggs, a hash-brown with butter and/or gravy, 5 strips of fucking bacon, and a biscuit, topped off with orange juice or tard cum, and we didn't seem to have the massive amount of people so fat they look like they're melting.

And it's more than poverty. Hell, when you're REALLY poor, you eat rice and shitty 60%/40% hamburger/fat "meat", cheap ass vegetables you got at the farmer's market or from a roadside or out of the Nickle's ads, and potatoes. Lots and lots of fucking potatoes. Mashed, fried, sliced, diced, boiled, steamed. With butter, sour cream, green onions, made a dozen different ways and served with a smile and a glass of orange juice you made with the oranges that you bought from the Mexican dude by the offramp. (Source: Being a poorfag more than a few times)

With foodstamps you can buy better. Hell, you can make fucking feasts (boiled chicken breast then fried in oil with bread-crumb coating made from the bread heels that got a bit too dry, stir fried rice, steamed broccoli with pepper-jack cheese sauce) with food stamps.

The fact these fat hamplanets sit and whine about Western Civilization when the only reason they aren't some poor ass black dude in Africa with his ribs showing, wearing canvas pants and a burlap potato bag for a shirt with shoes made out of old tires, running on 800 calories a day is because Western Civilization has such largess that we can afford to keep these fat fuckers not only alive, but eating enough to support an entire High School Cross Country Team just by themselves.

"Healthy At Any Size" AKA "Eat Fast, Die Young, Leave a Fat Corpse, Cause a Mortuary Grease Fire."

EDIT: LOL Word filter "Hash.bro.wn" is "A BIG BLACK DICK"... well, that was what some girls had for breakfast, but I ain't gonna kinkshame.

So fat at 22 that your back is already giving out and the cartilage in your knee is well on its way out. Yes it's absolutely self-destructive behavior wrapped in the guise of some tilted on its ass version of Feminism. Who knew the best way to beat the patriarchy was to eat yourself into a crippling disability by 30 and die before 50 of a massive coronary or ass cancer?

 

[AbraCadaver]

How the hell does any normal fat person even get swept up in FAS. All the leaders are ill, disabled, or close to being disabled. How can anyone take these morons seriously when all of them look like shit.

When you’ve spent a long time trying and failing to correct what you’ve done to yourself and having a lot of guilt and shame because of it, having someone tell you “none of this is your fault, and in fact is not a problem at all, so stop trying to fix it because everything is fine and you’ll never have to work hard or try again!” is extremely seductive.

 

[Francis Dollarhyde]

So fat at 22 that your back is already giving out and the cartilage in your knee is well on its way out. Yes it's absolutely self-destructive behavior wrapped in the guise of some tilted on its ass version of Feminism. Who knew the best way to beat the patriarchy was to eat yourself into a crippling disability by 30 and die before 50 of a massive coronary or ass cancer?

Her back and knees are already going at barely 22. She will be in a chair at 25 at the latest at this pace, that coronary will be a lot faster than 50.

 

[dopedodo]

Phoebe Tickner/FatVegFemme doing what she does best - complaining that body positivity in the mainstream doesn't include her specific body. She first came to my attention when she complained that BodyPosiPanda was chosen over her to appear in a pop video (ie someone who isn't ugly in looks and personality, doesn't just sit on her fat ass all the time and moan on Instagram).

 

[JambledUpWords]

Phoebe Tickner/FatVegFemme doing what she does best - complaining that body positivity in the mainstream doesn't include her specific body. She first came to my attention when she complained that BodyPosiPanda was chosen over her to appear in a pop video (ie someone who isn't ugly in looks and personality, doesn't just sit on her fat ass all the time and moan on Instagram).

Spoilered the image because it looks like she's being crushed to death by her own weight.

Spoiler: bitter fatness

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It’s hard to distinguish anything. How are people okay with getting so fat that their body doesn’t even look human? The longer I look, the more unsettling it gets

 

[Kukkamaaria]

Phoebe Tickner/FatVegFemme doing what she does best - complaining that body positivity in the mainstream doesn't include her specific body. She first came to my attention when she complained that BodyPosiPanda was chosen over her to appear in a pop video (ie someone who isn't ugly in looks and personality, doesn't just sit on her fat ass all the time and moan on Instagram).

Spoilered the image because it looks like she's being crushed to death by her own weight.

Spoiler: bitter fatness

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They probably wanted someone who can stand for more than 20 seconds.

 

[XenomorphThot]

She first came to my attention when she complained that BodyPosiPanda was chosen over her to appear in a pop video (ie someone who isn't ugly in looks and personality, doesn't just sit on her fat ass all the time and moan on Instagram).

Lol buddy, bodyposipanda does the exact same shit. What's more, she's also a bully and will send her brainless minions to harass small YouTube channels that criticise her.