Fat Acceptance Movement / Fat Girlcows

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

But I don't like to make eye contact with anyone. Eye contact means I might get talked to. That's gross.

See I'm the opposite, I make contact with everyone because I'm a fucking spaz.

 

[lamp shade]

Look me in the eyes or you're a fatphobe!

“Omg people are always staring at me because I’m fat. I’m not a freak! Cater to my obesity!”

“Not looking at me is fat phobic.”

What.

 

[feelingabitemu]

I have yet to see an intellectual deathfatty. So far, they've all been college dropouts or high school dropouts. Why are there no deathfatties with Masters or Bachelor's degrees?

It almost seems like to be a person who eats himself/herself over 400 pounds, one prerequisite is that you have to be fairly dumb. I know a lot of smart people who are overweight, but none of them are deathfatties. While they can't say no to a piece of pie after dinner, they are smart enough to stop at one piece.

I guess this is a duh moment for me. Deathfatties are dumb, and smart people aren't deathfatties. Funny how some things work out so neatly.

That's because the ones who do get degrees are relatively normal, just going on with their life, or they end up ree-ing to the academic abyss where you'll only find them if you actively seek them out. Even then they're a minority of a minority, When you do find them, you'll generally find fat white cucks in professor roles teaching modules such as;

Fat Studies, Queer Pop Culture, Queer Theory, Intro to Queer Studies, Disability Studies, Transgender Politics, Queer of Color Critiques, Indigenous Queer Studies, Queer and Trans People of Color Arts.

 

[pinkbutterfly]

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Is it just me, or is hiding your bathroom scales so people don't know you weigh yourself way more disordered than having them in the first place?

 

[Toohottotrot]

When you do find them, you'll generally find fat white cucks in professor roles teaching modules such as;

Fat Studies, .

was a thing is no longer a thing NEEDS to be a thing in disability related/ medicatial studies

 

[Francis Dollarhyde]

That's because the ones who do get degrees are relatively normal, just going on with their life, or they end up ree-ing to the academic abyss where you'll only find them if you actively seek them out. Even then they're a minority of a minority, When you do find them, you'll generally find fat white cucks in professor roles teaching modules such as;

Fat Studies, Queer Pop Culture, Queer Theory, Intro to Queer Studies, Disability Studies, Transgender Politics, Queer of Color Critiques, Indigenous Queer Studies, Queer and Trans People of Color Arts.

I once read actual classes being offered at a school with these people, and it had shit like Vegan Feminism, Feminist Vegan Theory, Interracial Studies (in with the sex stuff, highly suspect), Queer Studies, it is not something people even make up. I was so amused. If this is how Tovar got her masters in sex studies it makes sense, absolutely. Not like she had much choice, no man will touch that thing in real life.

 

[AbraCadaver]

If seeing a bathroom scale ruins your night, then you're the one who has a problem.

But MY TRIGGERS breathes heavily into an anti-anxiety-attack paper bag covered in glitter stickers and scented like chocolate and play-doh

This whole I’M TRIGGERED lunacy is going too far. People don’t need to rearrange their homes to suit the paper-thin feelings and egos of their guests who are just coming over for a few drinks.

Look me in the eyes or you're a fatphobe!

Fatphobia is when you look at me and when you DON’T look at me! It’s staring at me AND ignoring me! It’s standing too close or standing down the street! It’s everywhere all the time and it triggers me so much I’M NOT PARANOID YOU’RE PARANOID.

Reminds me of Chantal darting her eyes around herself constantly as she eats in her car and giving a mumbled running commentary at how everyone walking by is staring her, when they’re clearly not. Being self-conscious makes you believe everyone is thinking about and judging you. This is not something society can fix for you by changing its entire collective attitude.

I wonder if Miss "Bathroom scales are fatphobic" is equally enraged by uncovered mirrors (which might make unattractive people feel bad about themselves)?

It’s weird how all these people who say you shouldn’t even KNOW what you weigh because it’s detrimental to your self-image to even think about it...are totally okay with makeup. Covering your face with pastes and powders to look more attractive? MEN don’t have to do that. And yet women are expected to, even on the job! Don’t gimme this shite about it being empowering, you’re covering up your natural beauty every single day to present a more socially acceptable face. You leave it on your bathroom counter, where your KIDS CAN SEE IT (unlike the scale, which you should toss out because it will warp kids’ self image).

But I’m not allowed to own a scale if you visit my house?

 

[GloJojo]

If being aware that someone has a bathroom scale at home is so offensive, would they burst a vessel upon hearing there is no fridge on the premises, for example? ? funny how bald people don't usually have a hissy fit seeing a comb in someone elses house. At least the ones I know don't seem to...
I also have an issue with "your friends" followed by "they don't have fat friends" presented on the meme a while ago- by this token either you're not fat or you're not their friend.

 

[Lulu Diamonds]

Oh, now this is revealing. I'm honestly surprised he doesn't live a more lavish lifestyle. The McMansion is nothing unusual or spectacular as far as McMansions go.

(Not sure how to edit in a quote.) @MirnaMinkoff "Her dad is a big wig in medical technology equipment industry. He now runs the company that makes the “Invisalign” teeth straighten stuff that’s virtually replaced braces for teeth alignment. Before that he was the in cardiac medical equipment sector in companies that had $1 billion plus yearly revenue. The medical equipment industry is ridiculous money. Her dad isn’t upper middle class, or rich, he’s fucking wealthy. It’s the stock options and dividends he would own at this point from his previous companies and his current one (which is a raging success) that create real wealth and ensure Anna never has to work a day in her life if he feels so inclined towards her. He’s not Bill Gates, but he is easily a multi-millionaire"

That's the sort of specific info I was asking for about his wealth in the first place.

Unfortunately, that's not her dad either, based on what we've seen from videos of him http://investor.aligntech.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors

 

[feelingabitemu]

Fat studies is still a thing, mostly available as modules/courses as opposed to full blown degrees. Some have dropped it, or merged it with social justice studies, but it's still an active research field. How good it is as a subject largely depends on who teaches it and their research interests.

GSWS 313 - Fat Studies: Bodies, Culture, and Politics 4 credits Introduction to the burgeoning area of Fat Studies, with a focus on fatness in the U.S. today. We will interrogate the war on obesity, moral panics around body size, the construct of fitness, health at every size models, and fat-positivity in order to deconstruct the meanings of fatness. We will analyze the ways that gender, sexuality, race, class, and disability intersect in relation to fatness. This course will also examine the interrelationships between feminist and queer politics and fat activism.

Although at South Oregon University it is not taught by a fat.

Oregan State offers it too, with the description:

"(the course) Examines body weight, shape, and size as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, and ability. Employs a multi-disciplinary approach spanning the behavioral sciences and humanities. Frames weight-based oppression as a social justice issue, exploring forms of activism used to counter weightism perpetuated throughout various societal institutions."

From the ratings students have given for both the above they're taken as an easy credit class.

I mean rate me the most feel good liberal in the world, but Queer Theory is actually hugely studied all over the world as a critical theory subset of Cultural Studies. It's actually pretty interesting, especially if you're into film. And, I can see it's merit given the shift in the western world to acceptance of homosexuality and queer culture. Kind of like the prominence of Women's Studies post Women's Lib.

But Fat Vegan Feminism can go fuck itself. So can 'politically identified lesbians who are cis heterosexual.' Fuck the college experience is something else nowadays huh?

Should have probably clarified, the modules themselves are not my issue, it's the people who tend to take them.

 

[Candidae]

Fat studies is still a thing, mostly available as modules/courses as opposed to full blown degrees. Some have dropped it, or merged it with social justice studies, but it's still an active research field. How good it is as a subject largely depends on who teaches it and their research interests.

GSWS 313 - Fat Studies: Bodies, Culture, and Politics 4 credits Introduction to the burgeoning area of Fat Studies, with a focus on fatness in the U.S. today. We will interrogate the war on obesity, moral panics around body size, the construct of fitness, health at every size models, and fat-positivity in order to deconstruct the meanings of fatness. We will analyze the ways that gender, sexuality, race, class, and disability intersect in relation to fatness. This course will also examine the interrelationships between feminist and queer politics and fat activism.

Although at South Oregon University it is not taught by a fat.

Oregan State offers it too, with the description:

"(the course) Examines body weight, shape, and size as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, and ability. Employs a multi-disciplinary approach spanning the behavioral sciences and humanities. Frames weight-based oppression as a social justice issue, exploring forms of activism used to counter weightism perpetuated throughout various societal institutions."

From the ratings students have given for both the above they're taken as an easy credit class.



Should have probably clarified, the modules themselves are not my issue, it's the people who tend to take them.

Honestly a class on the diet and fitness industry as well as the craze and its leading to people having terrible body image or its general impact on society and what people think good nutrition is would be an interesting course to take. Talk about how this extreme has now been countered with an opposite extreme with people claiming obesity can be healthy. How ignoring what your body wants has been turned into mindlessly accepting every craving instead of figuring out why you're craving that food (maybe you need protein and that's why you want that big Mac for example)

But God knows if a sociology class even thought about negatively portraying or talking about the issues within the FA community they'd be fucked. I've had people drop nutrition classes and complain about/dispute the biology classes when talking about obesity. Especially funny was one girl who wanted the teacher to talk about intuitive eating then got mad when the teacher accurately talked about it. The smaller chubsters act like obesity only affects the super obese too which is great. Not sure what a super obese person would say, in all my schooling I've never actually seen one on campus. Guess they'd be unable to walk to their classes among other issues

 

[rocknrollmartian]

Unfortunately, that's not her dad either, based on what we've seen from videos of him http://investor.aligntech.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors

I really have no idea why I assumed someone with a different name and age than her dad was her dad (lol, I'm dumb). I was following along with adamant comments about his alleged wealth and replied too quickly.

And like I've said ad nauseam, a man worth that much almost certainly doesn't live in a nice but normal house or neighborhood. Hell, even if that were her dad (and it's not, so this is moot, I realize), there are far more exclusive areas in Chagrin Falls alone where a top executive would typically live. There's some real wealth.

But I'll shut up now.

 

[thejackal]

I really have no idea why I assumed someone with a different name and age than her dad was her dad (lol, I'm dumb). I was following along with adamant comments about his alleged wealth and replied too quickly.

And like I've said ad nauseam, a man worth that much almost certainly doesn't live in a nice but normal house or neighborhood. Hell, even if that were her dad (and it's not, so this is moot, I realize), there are far more exclusive areas in Chagrin Falls alone where a top executive would typically live. There's some real wealth.

But I'll shut up now.

Yea it's still a mystery, some kiwi will find out eventually. One thing I keep seeing when searching about Anna and her family is BYU and finance connections. It's difficult to pin down because O'Brien is such a common last name and I don't know much about the Mormon church but it appears most of them are somehow involved in it. I think it's probable that her dad is wealthy and connected enough to have gotten her into BYU, where maybe she pulled it together enough to get into Columbia on her own for her Masters but it's hard to look at her career arc (if the info about her salary at Citi is accurate) and conclude she was a valuable asset to her employers. She bounced around quite a bit in 10 years and you don't leave a 150K a year job to become an influencer willingly, do you? It's not like Anna is someone with millions of followers on her accounts. Hell, when she left sprinklr she hardly had 100K IG followers.

Maybe I'll try and go through her blog again to get some more info about her before she left Sprinklr.

FWIW someone on YTT reported that her yellow bikini pose I posted the other day started a shit storm in the comments because someone called her out her pledge to not just be the fat girl in a bikini on social media in 2019 and Anna claimed she didn't remember saying that. I'm pretty sure it's in one of her videos from around the new year and was on her IG, she def said it.

 

[Tesshollidaysflupaknees]

Yea it's still a mystery, some kiwi will find out eventually. One thing I keep seeing when searching about Anna and her family is BYU and finance connections. It's difficult to pin down because O'Brien is such a common last name and I don't know much about the Mormon church but it appears most of them are somehow involved in it. I think it's probable that her dad is wealthy and connected enough to have gotten her into BYU, where maybe she pulled it together enough to get into Columbia on her own for her Masters but it's hard to look at her career arc (if the info about her salary at Citi is accurate) and conclude she was a valuable asset to her employers. She bounced around quite a bit in 10 years and you don't leave a 150K a year job to become an influencer willingly, do you? It's not like Anna is someone with millions of followers on her accounts. Hell, when she left sprinklr she hardly had 100K IG followers.

Maybe I'll try and go through her blog again to get some more info about her before she left Sprinklr.

FWIW someone on YTT reported that her yellow bikini pose I posted the other day started a shit storm in the comments because someone called her out her pledge to not just be the fat girl in a bikini on social media in 2019 and Anna claimed she didn't remember saying that. I'm pretty sure it's in one of her videos from around the new year and was on her IG, she def said it.

I found the video. She starts talking about it at 11:00.

 

[rocknrollmartian]

FWIW someone on YTT reported that her yellow bikini pose I posted the other day started a shit storm in the comments because someone called her out her pledge to not just be the fat girl in a bikini on social media in 2019 and Anna claimed she didn't remember saying that. I'm pretty sure it's in one of her videos from around the new year and was on her IG, she def said it.

Yep, she is completely full of shit. She made a huge deal about not wanting to be a clickbait bikini fatty in that resolution video. Maybe she was able to convince her family that it's OK to be an obese thot because it brings in a lot more money and "opportunities" like the Gillette ad.

 

[Whatthefuck]

Look me in the eyes or you're a fatphobe!

The fuck is this horseshit? There are lots of reasons folks may not make eye contact in public with strangers. Sometimes they don't want to engage, but that has fuck all to do with your weight, sis. Trust me, most folks when they are in the presence of a behemoth can't stop staring.

These fucking assholes.

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

Yea it's still a mystery, some kiwi will find out eventually. One thing I keep seeing when searching about Anna and her family is BYU and finance connections. It's difficult to pin down because O'Brien is such a common last name and I don't know much about the Mormon church but it appears most of them are somehow involved in it. I think it's probable that her dad is wealthy and connected enough to have gotten her into BYU, where maybe she pulled it together enough to get into Columbia on her own for her Masters but it's hard to look at her career arc (if the info about her salary at Citi is accurate) and conclude she was a valuable asset to her employers. She bounced around quite a bit in 10 years and you don't leave a 150K a year job to become an influencer willingly, do you? It's not like Anna is someone with millions of followers on her accounts. Hell, when she left sprinklr she hardly had 100K IG followers.

Maybe I'll try and go through her blog again to get some more info about her before she left Sprinklr.

FWIW someone on YTT reported that her yellow bikini pose I posted the other day started a shit storm in the comments because someone called her out her pledge to not just be the fat girl in a bikini on social media in 2019 and Anna claimed she didn't remember saying that. I'm pretty sure it's in one of her videos from around the new year and was on her IG, she def said it.

She's Mormon? Must not be very religious if she has swimsuits like that.

 

[Tesshollidaysflupaknees]

She's Mormon? Must not be very religious if she has swimsuits like that.

Her Family is Mormon. I believe she is not a practicing Mormon, I could be wrong.

 

[Angry New Ager]

This whole I’M TRIGGERED lunacy is going too far. People don’t need to rearrange their homes to suit the paper-thin feelings and egos of their guests who are just coming over for a few drinks.

The whole I'M TRIGGERED thing is all about controlling social interactions.

The people who would actually do this shit don't really feel like they're in control of their own lives and destinies. They've never had to learn how to deal with competition and conflict, or manage their own emotional discomfort. So now that they're adults the best they can do (at least among their SJW social circles, because nobody else cares) is shut down any interaction that feels uncomfortable by claiming they're "triggered." And, by pre-emptively pointing out things that "trigger" them, they can control how their SJW friends behave around them.

I don't doubt most of these people suffer from anxiety; when you're emotionally unequipped to deal with the challenges of living, and don't know how to productively push for what you want (and thus need it given to you), that's pretty much a given.

But outside of college campuses and Tumblr, do people actually do this shit IRL? I've yet to encounter it. Granted, my social circle is really, really short on dangerhairs indoctrinated in SJW-speak, and they actually have jobs they're doing well at, and thus some sense of personal efficacy, so crawling behind the rock of I'M TRIGGERED just hasn't happened. So I suspect the ones who do use it to keep their internet/campus friends in line, and maybe try using it on their parents to see if it will get them what they want, are the ones who just get silent and stare at their shoes during normal social interactions that take an uncomfortable turn.

Reminds me of Chantal darting her eyes around herself constantly as she eats in her car and giving a mumbled running commentary at how everyone walking by is staring her, when they’re clearly not. Being self-conscious makes you believe everyone is thinking about and judging you. This is not something society can fix for you by changing its entire collective attitude.

I call it "Piece of Shit at the Center of the Universe Syndrome." There's such a weird push-pull between those feelings of shame and self-loathing, and the childish narcissism of believing all eyes are upon oneself.

And like I've said ad nauseam, a man worth that much almost certainly doesn't live in a nice but normal house or neighborhood. Hell, even if that were her dad (and it's not, so this is moot, I realize), there are far more exclusive areas in Chagrin Falls alone where a top executive would typically live. There's some real wealth.

But I'll shut up now.

I know some very wealthy people who do not live the kind of lifestyles you would expect them to, and who live in much more modest homes and in less exclusive neighborhoods than they potentially could. I also know a few people who you would never, ever guess were multimillionaires, based upon where they live and their patterns of consumption.

There's no Rich Person Rulebook that says you have to live in the most exclusive neighborhood and own the most palatial home you can afford. When you're rich? You can live wherever the fuck you want. And, frankly, living in the most exclusive neighborhood, in that palatial home, can have some drawbacks. People respond to you differently, and not always in positive ways. The people who have that kind of wealth and choose to live that kind of lifestyle can be pretty fucking weird and out of touch, especially when there are generations of inherited wealth behind them. And the nouveau riche? Well, yeah, they're just horrible, no matter where you go.

 

[rocknrollmartian]

There's no Rich Person Rulebook that says you have to live in the most exclusive neighborhood and own the most palatial home you can afford. When you're rich? You can live wherever the fuck you want. And, frankly, living in the most exclusive neighborhood, in that palatial home, can have some drawbacks. People respond to you differently, and not always in positive ways. The people who have that kind of wealth and choose to live that kind of lifestyle can be pretty fucking weird and out of touch, especially when there are generations of inherited wealth behind them. And the nouveau riche? Well, yeah, they're just horrible, no matter where you go.

Of course there's no rulebook, but people who make careers out of acquiring and selling massively profitable companies often live in ways that reflect their status, power, and drive, especially if they invite people over to socialize or talk shop. Someone with a net worth of $70 freaking million is likely going to have a lifestyle with more impress and luxury than that of a local entrepreneur or accountant or equivalent professions, which is why I was doubtful in the first place. A $2 million+ home is not close to crazy or outlandish in the "insanely wealthy CEO" category. It's more common than not.