size acceptance
Apr. 12th, 2006 01:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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volondoinyaface said over this weekend was that we attach value to the size and shape of our body not just because of enculturation, but as a result of experience.
She was talking specifically about my thing with the shrinking - I associate weightloss with losing control or casting about, and also with incessant praise (and praise with intrusiveness), so there's logic to my fragmented response to this thing. I'm not just a puppet of social conditioning.
I think this is, in general, a better model for how size should exist in our minds. It's not that size should be utterly devoid of other significance, but that we should be free to associate size with experience just as one might do hair length or something. And that is the difference between size acceptance and a fat movement. In the latter, shifting size is almost automatically a problem, while the former leaves you room to attach any experience to size.
You know, in a glowing happy utopia. In the real world, fat is way too loaded to be purely about individual experience.
volondoinyaface said over this weekend was that we attach value to the size and shape of our body not just because of enculturation, but as a result of experience.She was talking specifically about my thing with the shrinking - I associate weightloss with losing control or casting about, and also with incessant praise (and praise with intrusiveness), so there's logic to my fragmented response to this thing. I'm not just a puppet of social conditioning.
I think this is, in general, a better model for how size should exist in our minds. It's not that size should be utterly devoid of other significance, but that we should be free to associate size with experience just as one might do hair length or something. And that is the difference between size acceptance and a fat movement. In the latter, shifting size is almost automatically a problem, while the former leaves you room to attach any experience to size.
You know, in a glowing happy utopia. In the real world, fat is way too loaded to be purely about individual experience.