okay, first of all sympathetic is not the right word... "sympathetic" will get you killed.
Secondly, there is nothing difficult about any of this. The entire idea is that the popular culture says "you must be this small to be happy" and fat radicalism says "fuck you, im huge and im still happy."
Being fat doesnt make you unhealthy or weakwilled or anything else, it just makes you fat.
my argument with fat radicalism is that they often times are so rabidly pro-fat that they cant just accept that other people dont understand, and often let little things get under their skin. If someone said to me "hey, you look like youve lost some weight!" i respond "Nope, doubt it... but thanks anyways!" But if you said the same thing so some fat people they respond (if only mentally) "Fuck you! who are you to judge me and my body? What gives you the right to hold me to your own bullshit standards? HOW DARE YOU?!? RAR GRR HISS"
that shit is way too intense for me.
The way i look at it, i am the way i am... like it or not. When someone mentions it to me, i hear the words that make judgement, but i understand the intent. Most people arent mentioning it because they are trying to force their ideals on me, they just try to be nice, and dont understand the implications. If they thought you would be happy if you looked bigger, theyd say "hey, you sure are rounding out nicely" and if they thought you wanted to be a smurf theyd say "my, you certainly look shorter and bluer today."
It's not the words that matter, its the idea behind it.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-27 06:11 pm (UTC)Secondly, there is nothing difficult about any of this. The entire idea is that the popular culture says "you must be this small to be happy" and fat radicalism says "fuck you, im huge and im still happy."
Being fat doesnt make you unhealthy or weakwilled or anything else, it just makes you fat.
my argument with fat radicalism is that they often times are so rabidly pro-fat that they cant just accept that other people dont understand, and often let little things get under their skin.
If someone said to me "hey, you look like youve lost some weight!" i respond "Nope, doubt it... but thanks anyways!" But if you said the same thing so some fat people they respond (if only mentally) "Fuck you! who are you to judge me and my body? What gives you the right to hold me to your own bullshit standards? HOW DARE YOU?!? RAR GRR HISS"
that shit is way too intense for me.
The way i look at it, i am the way i am... like it or not. When someone mentions it to me, i hear the words that make judgement, but i understand the intent. Most people arent mentioning it because they are trying to force their ideals on me, they just try to be nice, and dont understand the implications. If they thought you would be happy if you looked bigger, theyd say "hey, you sure are rounding out nicely" and if they thought you wanted to be a smurf theyd say "my, you certainly look shorter and bluer today."
It's not the words that matter, its the idea behind it.
Sometimes people forget that.