"Obesity Apologists"
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Or they could lose some weight. “Real” sized women? I’m not advocating size 0 sticks here. Old navy goes up to 12 or 14 in their normal clothes. People like the women here–obesity apologists in denial about health–are why America is so fat.
In case you’re visiting from that site, let me clear up a couple of minor things. First of all, it’s nice that this guy has his upper range of acceptable sizes, but none of us has to adhere to this “normal clothes” standard in order to be healthy or otherwise worthy. Furthermore, the people who visit this site are men and women of all shapes and sizes. Some of us are thin. Some of us have lost weight. Some of us are working to lose weight. Some of us are focused on our own fitness and health, at whatever size we happen to be. And some of us are fat and happy.
People like the commenter here, who make a superficial snap judgment about this site based on inadequate information, are probably not interested in sticking around and reading more to figure out what we’re really about. But hopefully you, reader, are.
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I staunchly maintain that the lack of critical thinking skills in the larger population will ultimately accelerate the downfall of American civilization as we know it.
I like to come here as often as I can and visit, though. When the revolution comes — and I really can feel it sneaking up on us — maybe we can all build a shelter at Area 51, or something.
Also, speaking of much BETTER Obesity Apologists:
“We are rethinking Dress Barn”
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT
hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
Jeezus. If that’s what he says about this site. I can only imagine what he’d say about me.
And in most Americans minds fat acceptance (if they’ve even heard of it) is like one step below NAMBLA. I don’t think there’s any danger of it being “why America is so fat.” In my entire state you can’t find two NAAFA members to rub together.
Yeah, I love how fat acceptance proponents are the reason why everyone’s so fat, when most people don’t even know there’s such a thing as fat acceptance and many of the fat people I know would never want to be a member of a club that would have them as a member.
That’s the REAL problem with this society: too many people talking about how awesome it is to be fat.
Even if one is trying to lose weight, doesn’t one need to wear clothes, preferably nice ones?
Hee-hee!
Can you imagine what his reaction would be if he surfed onto Marilyn Wann’s Fat!So? website? His momma’d be calling an abulance when he started flailing around on the floor in some kinda apoplectic fit!
Don’t you know that being fat is not the real sin? The real sin is failing to hate yourself until you look like a skeleton with a very large head and fake boobs. It’s only marginally OK to be fat if you make yourself the butt of an eternal joke like Kirstie Alley.
Dahlings, the reviewer is a moron who thinks his stomach gurgling from hunger is the voice of God.
Was that the whole review? I’m having trouble understanding how to read that site.
I just wanted to chime in about the whole “health” thing. It’s okay to hate fat people, I guess people over size 14, because they are not healthy. The healthiest people I know are chubby people because they are actively trying not to be chubby or because they’ve actually consumed enough calories to move around without being tired. Thin people eat cupcakes and french fries, I’ve seen it first hand. Just because you are thin does not automatically mean you are any healthier than anybody else. If you are healthy good for you, stop judging other people. If you eat fast food and smoke and/or starve yourself, stop telling me how unhealthy fat people are, for god’s sake.
God, here’s the second review. Are you kidding me??
“The fat acceptance crowd thinks of themselves a persecuted minority victims. In reality they are internet bullies, no one is allowed to desent from their (delusional) opionions that weight has no bearing on health, and that they are completely faultless in their own condition. As the size of this group grows physically, and demographically, expect them to start to be offended by images of fit people and expect them to be removed from the public eye. Additionally, I fully expect them to demand protective status under affirmitive action protection.”
Heh. Pity he can’t spell “dissent”.
And while I’m bitching, can I just say that I hate the term “real women”? Now that I’m no longer fat, does that mean I’m a non-woman? Or a fake woman?
I thought ‘real’ meant not surgically altered, undernourished or airbrushed to within an inch of their lives.
Well, I have just published a favorable StumbleUpon review myself. I couldn’t forebear from making a somewhat pointed comment about the need for a site for pudgy fellows with bosoms who like to pose bare-chested…forgive me.
Bwah-ha-hah! That’s classic, Anne! As for that “pudgy fellow with bosoms” writing that we will “start to be offended by images of fit people.” Um, hasn’t he got a mirror?
As for the “real women” tag, I’ve only seen it in the context of fat/overweight/plus-sized women – I mean, that’s nice but it kinda negates those of us who don’t fit into that category.
I don’t take offense at anyone using the Real Woman tag, because I know that it comes from women who have been marginalized because of their size and who now rightfully and righteously demand to be recognized as women. Using “real women” is a matter of opening minds, not cracking skulls.
That second “review” of this site is even more hilarious than the first. I mean, he thinks that fat people will one day–what?–control the world? You’d think in that case that that maroon’d be a little nicer to fat folks.
Yeah, to people like that, respect is a zero sum game.
So, Mo, have you thought to lodge an objection for this sizeist review with the people at stumbled upon? I mean, if they’re gonna call you an internet bully, you may as well rise up!
Well, I read BFD religiously, and I am *GASP* NOT FAT.
Mo Pie is right. The content, message, and community on the site are for everyone who wants to have fun and improve themselves, regardless of size, sex, etc.
Heavy forbid their dainty male eyes be offended by unfettered female (or male, when it comes right down to it) flesh! Oh, the horror of having to look at that which does not aesthetically please you!
I don’t pretend that everyone is going to love looking at fat people in a sexual way. But since I’m not fucking everyone, that hardly seems to matter. All I want is for people to stop judging me just because I don’t get their sexual motor running. That’s a shitty way to judge the worth of people.
And for the people who DO like looking at fat people, who find that a rockin’ aesthetic, I want them to be able to honestly express their preference without being judged harshly and considered dirty perverts (in bad way – I am all for dirty perverts in a good way *grin*).
I love it when narrow-minded people feel they can make a misguided judgment on something they know absolutely nothing about.
We’re not saying that the world shall bow down to all who come fat. We’re merely saying that we won’t let the media negate what is considered sexy. Sexy comes in big packages too.
As for the “real women” comment. I have no problem with the tag because to me, a real woman is someone who struggles with body image be they big or small. Someone who doesn’t have the size “0” body. Because, let’s face it, 0 is not a size.
But, Kellie, 0 IS a size. There are people, a woman I’ve known for years among them, who struggles to stay ABOVE a hundred pounds because she doesn’t want to be that thin. Her metabolism is crazy fast and she can’t keep up with it. She can’t build muscle because her body burns through calories too fast just in the course of a normal day. She is a real size. She is a real woman. Just as much as I am or anyone else is. She struggles with her body image just as much as I do as a size 24.
I have a SIL who has to shop in the children’s section because nothing in the adult section will fit her. She too struggles with a fast metabolism. Oh that and she’s on the short side.
I’m not really talking about the women who are naturally a small size no matter what. I’m talking more along the lines of Hollywood women who starve themselves thin. I’m talking about people who use stars like Kiera Knightly or Mary-Kate Olsen as thinspiration.
Real women come in all sizes and all sizes are not small.
Like I stated in my above post, any woman who struggles with her size and body image is a real woman.
I didn’t mean to offend anyone with my comment.
I appreciate reading your clarification, Kellie. It was just the whole “0 is not a size” thing that seemed to run counter to everything else you were saying, you know? Because it’s incredibly difficult (one might say impossible!) to look at a very thin woman and know how she got that way.
Body acceptance is hard for everyone, and I hate that sometimes fat acceptance rhetoric adds to the problems of other body types.
I appreciate you calling me on it. I’m not narrow-minded or against one body type or another. I think the majority of women struggle with themselves inside and out in today’s world.
I just wish that in society we could all get along and be looked at as people not just dress sizes. Sometimes, it seems as though we’ll never truly shed the grade school teasing. kwim?
To defend yourself from lies is to bully others, if the case is so sure, why does it need so many lies? Why does something ‘healthy’ have such a degrading effect on the manners and thinking of the haters.
It is the fat haters that cannot tolerate dissent and think of themselves as faultless in their own deluded condition of needless hatred.
I also think this ‘real woman’ tag is utter nonsense, whatever a woman is, she is most certainly REAL.
I’ll make a pitch for all women, of whatever shape or size, being able to find pretty, wearable clothes – even alterable clothes that can be made wearable.
And I’ll make a bid to stop the “real women” descriptor, unless we’re differentiating between “photoshopped women” or “SIMS” or “Inflatable/Windup Women.” Skinny women are real women. I don’t need to beat someone else with a stick, just because I’ve been beaten. My petite, narrow sister is as real a woman as I am, although I’m neither petite nor narrow.
It’s also a little tough on the transgendered folks, who are probably having a rocky enough time without that reminder.
It’s not like a ride at DisneyWorld, where you have to be a certain size or shape to get on the ride.
(I might be willing to make an exception for, say, Paris Hilton, who would actually be a Real Nut. But still Real.)