Month: April 2013

The reality is that fat people are often supported in hating their bodies, in starving themselves, in engaging in unsafe exercise, and in seeking out weight loss by any means necessary. A thin person who does these things is considered mentally ill. A fat person who does these things is redeemed by them. This is why our culture has no concept of a fat person who also has an eating disorder. If you’re fat, it’s not an eating disorder — it’s a lifestyle change.

Lesley Kinzel (via curvesahead)

I will always reblog this because it is so so important. 

(via infinitetransit)

I just want to nail this to every stable surface I can find. I cannot count the amount of times that I’ve seen fat folks being encouraged, cajoled, and even forced into behaviors that would be recognized as disordered eating/exercising patterns in thin folks. 

Pretty much everything that’s done on shows like The Biggest Loser would be called out as pro-ana/pro-orthorexia in a thin person. Exercising past the point that it hurts, to the point where you’re throwing up, even injuring yourself? Berating yourself because you didn’t lose ENOUGH weight this week? Constantly talking about how fat is weakness and thinness will make everything better, about how you can’t stand to be your current weight anymore? Emphasis on weight as a sign of how much control, strength, and worth you have? Viewing food as bad, as a temptation to sin? Constant sharing and talking about tips on how to minimize food intake, how to lose weight? 

That sounds exactly like every pro-ana/pro-mia blog I’ve ever seen. It’s also what fat people are told we need to be doing to ourselves until we’re thin. 

(via madamethursday)

carpetcrawler:

broadcastarchive-umd:

Annette Funicello dead at 70

L.A. Times: “Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV’s The Mickey Mouse Club in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ’60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70.”

Top photo: Annette Funicello (right) and Darlene Gillespie were the female  co-stars in the “New Adventures of Spin and Marty,” a 30-part serial presented on Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club during the 1957-1958 season.

Bottom photo: Funicello (right) and Gillespie met again as adults to celebrate “Mickey’s 40th Anniversary” on Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color in 1968.

What?! 🙁

Sob. Annette was always my favorite. ;-; 

magicwho:

kandieddubstep:

getreal-staycrazy:

deathtiel:

But like seriously I DON’T WANT TO PAY $50 FOR A BRA 

IT IS A BOOB HOLDER

IT IS LITERALLY NOTHING MORE THAN CUPS WHERE I CAN KEEP MY BOOBS

THAT SHOULD NOT BE SUCH AN EXPENSIVE ITEM FOR REAL THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO WOULD BE HONORED TO HOLD MY BOOBS THIS BRA SHOULD SHOW SOME DAMN RESPECT

This might be one of the greatest posts about boobs I’ve ever read.

Agreed

I love calling bras “boob holder” XD

Yeah but there’s a lot of work that goes into nice boob holders. You gotta pay extra for the support and the fancy underwire that doesn’t break out of its prison and STAB YOU IN THE BOOB while you’re out and about. I mean, srsly. Your boobs are amazing. It is worth the extra $$ to keep them protected and fancy.

plus silky lace stuff. YEP.