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What the hell is up with tumblr's "fat acceptence"?
My mom was fat(But she wasn't whale or cow fat, just overweight.), and she dealt it. But she didn't sit around and complain. She ran 5 miles a day and maintained a healthy diet.
If these people at least tried to be healthy, maybe they wouldn't be ridiculed so much.
 
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Remilia said:
What the hell is up with tumblr's "fat acceptence"?
My mom was fat(But she wasn't whale or cow fat, just overweight.), and she dealt it. But she didn't sit around and complain. She ran 5 miles a day and maintained a healthy diet.
If these people at least tried to be healthy, maybe they wouldn't be ridiculed so much.
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It's better than the alternative: admitting you have a problem and facing your insecurities. Much easier to blame an external locus of control. It’s not your fault you’re unhappy, it’s everyone else’s fault for not recognizing how awesome you are for simply existing. Every medical professional, advertising agency, and clothing maker is in on an ingenious conspiracy to hurt your feelings. Those feelings of social anxiety and persecutory delusions are 100% real and factual, so double the hell down.

Like most tumblrinas, they demand the world change to suit them and then get butthurt when they don't get it. Drinking the TITP kool-aid gives them relief from their anxiety about their weight, which then ironically makes recovery from their problems much harder. The very suggestion that people can lose weight makes TITP sperg out. Taking responsibility for yourself is anathema to pretty much all of Tumblr.
 
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Wallace said:
It's better than the alternative: admitting you have a problem and facing your insecurities. Much easier to blame an external locus of control. It’s not your fault you’re unhappy, it’s everyone else’s fault for not recognizing how awesome you are for simply existing. Every medical professional, advertising agency, and clothing maker is in on an ingenious conspiracy to hurt your feelings. Those feelings of social anxiety and persecutory delusions are 100% real and factual, so double the hell down.

Like most tumblrinas, they demand the world change to suit them and then get butthurt when they don't get it. Drinking the TITP kool-aid gives them relief from their anxiety about their weight, which then ironically makes recovery from their problems much harder. The very suggestion that people can lose weight makes TITP sperg out. Taking responsibility for yourself is anathema to pretty much all of Tumblr.
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With the whole fat acceptance thing, I don't mind the core principle of it; some people, even if they eat right and exercise, will just be bigger than other people with different metabolisms. There's nothing wrong with some chub, the BMI index has flaws, and you probably shouldn't be a dick to people based on their weight. All of this is pretty reasonable.

What I do have a problem with is lying to people. Yeah, doctors are human beings and can be biased as anybody, but that doesn't mean all doctors ever will attribute all of your problems to weight. Sometimes doctors fuck up and miss things because they're too busy focusing on what seems to be the obvious problem. That doesn't mean being obese is healthy. That doesn't erase the health problems linked to obesity. There's a reason why obese pets are often seen as victims of owner neglect. These health problems can be prevented or under control. To tell people that their problems are made up by a society that just hates fat people for no good reason is irresponsible.

By all means, if you wish to indulge, do so, but you don't get to blame everybody else for seeing you as unhealthy. You can't have your cake and eat it too (heh). Either be fat and not give a fuck about what anybody else has to say, or do the best you can to maintain a healthier body. If you got muscle underneath that fat, then good on you. You don't have to look like an airbrushed supermodel; just exercise some self-control. You're not a bad person for being fat, but you might be a bad person if you're convincing people that they can be 400 lbs and there's absolutely nothing wrong with their health.
 
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You're not a bad person for being fat, but you might be a bad person if you're convincing people that they can be 400 lbs and there's absolutely nothing wrong with their health.
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This is pretty much solid reasoning. I don't see the point of obsessively fat-hating, but I'm also probably not going to stop making jokes about fat people. I have a friend who gets pissed off about pretty much any reference to weight, and once flipped out at me for using the word "corpulent" to refer to someone negatively. I pointed out that's just annoying and I'm not going to stop doing it.

People's quirks, eccentricities and foibles are funny. I suppose it's kind of unfair that if you're fat and a bastard, nobody will ever let it slide that you're fat. You're a fat bastard for life, pretty much. But there are definitely worse things to be, and perfectly delightful fat people. It's just not something, like race or religion, that is reasonable to put off limits as something to make fun of.

Actually, I don't even think those should be off limit, but there are reasons they require delicacy.
 
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I call it bullshit.
Pasticcini are usually sold in trays. 12 pasticcini are a medium order, no one would bitch about that.

HOWEVER eating 12 pasticcini in one session is pig-disgusting, unhealthy and plain weird.

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I had to google these pastries, and holy crap, that's like eating a dozen donuts by yourself while sitting in Dunkin Donuts.
 
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"Someone lost weight for their own reasons, how does this affect me?"

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I doubt that even happened. And if it did, who eats 12 cakes alone?
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Bite sized cakes bought in a dozen. That doesn't mean that she would eat them all by herself or all in one sitting.

Vitriol said:
I always feel a little guilty reading fat threads.

As a weeny 13 year old me and my school friends used to throw absurdly childish insults at this local morbidly obese lady when we saw her in the village. We'd then 'run' away at a slow jog while the heffalump wheezed and lurched after us. Naturally we thought this was the height of wit.

Eventually she came up the brae to our house and confronted my father. Saying that she had been unable to catch us due to her 'bad knee'. He was an exceptionally stern man but i remember even he couldn't keep a straight face as he told us off. He managed to get out that we shouldn't be shouting insults at people in public but when the lady chipped in about how we were mocking the disabled he lost it-

" ach hold on there mrs m- but the boys weren't mocking you because of a disability they were mocking you because you're fatter than our biggest coos - no being able to catch them had nothing to do wi' your knee!"

the look of outrage across her tiny eyes and multiple wobbling chins as my father laughed away is one of my favourite memories of him.
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You literally made their crazy sounding stories seem like they might be real. Congratulations
 
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*sigh* Extra large tubs require more labor and material to manufacture then average sized tubs. That is why they cost so much more.
Also If you have enough money for a summer home then you have enough money for a gym membership.
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If they had enough for the summer home, they have enough to do anything involving health related things. But, think privilege.
 
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Fat privilege is having such a sense of entitlement that you complain that needing a small swimming pool to bathe is an affront to your "dignity." If you are legitimately that fat without the effects of medications or thyroid hell, that is due to a massive fluke on your part. And I mean as y'all said, if she can afford a summer home, she can afford to shell out for a tub large enough to hold her instead of recreating a freshly baked loaf of bread in its tin, sans the deliciousness.

Not sure where the lines of fat fuck entitlement and rich fuck entitlement are drawn on that one. They're pretty blurred.
 
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Lunete said:
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*sigh* Extra large tubs require more labor and material to manufacture then average sized tubs. That is why they cost so much more.
Also If you have enough money for a summer home then you have enough money for a gym membership.
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Rich fuck privilege is being able to afford a summer home, then whining that your fatass bathtub costs more because it contains more material.
 
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So this person says, and I quote, "Thin people will never understand the pain of going over-budget to indulge in the few things that make you happy at the cost of your dignity."

So... poor thin people do not exist, is that what you are saying? Because as a poor thin person who is thousands of dollars in debt to afford things like food, rent, and I will admit, a decent computer, that just smells like so much bullshit.
 
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