{"id":10532,"date":"2015-09-14T05:03:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T05:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/09\/14\/owlygem-telling-a-fat-person-that-they-are\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T05:03:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T05:03:15","slug":"owlygem-telling-a-fat-person-that-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/09\/14\/owlygem-telling-a-fat-person-that-they-are\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/owlygem.tumblr.com\/post\/129053017208\">owlygem<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Telling a fat person that they are disgusting doesn\u2019t help.<\/p>\n<p>Telling a fat person who has no problem with how they are that they are gross and unacceptable is like air lifting them to a pedestal in the middle of a vast, lonely ocean and leaving them there to sit and think about how\u00a0\u201cnaughty and bad\u201d they\u2019re being.<\/p>\n<p>Telling a fat person who\u2019s already dieting and exercising that they are unhealthy and killing themselves upon judging them without knowing them is like cutting the rope they\u2019re using to climb a mountain that\u2019s already so steep.<\/p>\n<p>Telling a depressed fat person that all their worries and insecurities will melt away when they shed the kilos is like putting foundation over a scar and saying it isn\u2019t there anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Telling a fat person they have no right to love themselves ,whether they plan to lose their weight or not, is telling them they have no right to live a happy life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Telling that little girl that she has to lose weight to be like her classmates and be loved as much as them doesn\u2019t make her want to lose her weight, it makes her put on more.<\/p>\n<p>So no, Nicole, Shaming doesn\u2019t help people. It never will.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>owlygem: Telling a fat person that they are disgusting doesn\u2019t help. Telling a fat person who has no problem with how they are that they are gross and unacceptable is like air lifting them to a pedestal in the middle of a vast, lonely ocean and leaving them there to sit and think about how\u00a0\u201cnaughty &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/09\/14\/owlygem-telling-a-fat-person-that-they-are\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3037],"class_list":["post-10532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-truth","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}