{"id":12109,"date":"2014-02-06T07:01:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T07:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2014\/02\/06\/for-fat-women-being-stylish-isnt-a-luxury-its\/"},"modified":"2014-02-06T07:01:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T07:01:33","slug":"for-fat-women-being-stylish-isnt-a-luxury-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2014\/02\/06\/for-fat-women-being-stylish-isnt-a-luxury-its\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>For fat women, being stylish isn\u2019t a luxury. It\u2019s often a necessity to get hired, to get access to healthcare, to get treated like a human being.<\/p>\n<p>Fat women have all kinds of narratives about sloppiness, laziness, dirtiness to overcome. Sometimes heels are a crucial part of looking \u201cput together\u201d in a way that sufficiently convinces people that we care about ourselves, that manages to counteract pervasive cultural narratives that fat people don\u2019t care about ourselves. That we have \u201clet ourselves go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Being \u201cput together\u201d is part of the way many of us convey to a judgmental world that we are worth caring about.<\/p>\n<p>I get treated completely differently at a $20 hair salon if I\u2019m dressed up or dressed down. Two totally different experiences. I get treated differently at the doctor\u2019s office, and at the emergency room. I can\u2019t go to the ER in sweatpants, because I\u2019ll get shittier treatment. In an emergency, I have to worry if I am dressed up enough to prove that I deserve respect and care.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Melissa McEwan: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakesville.com\/2014\/01\/fat-fashion.html\">Fat Fashion<\/a>\u00a0 (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/albinwonderland.com\/\">albinwonderland<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For fat women, being stylish isn\u2019t a luxury. It\u2019s often a necessity to get hired, to get access to healthcare, to get treated like a human being. Fat women have all kinds of narratives about sloppiness, laziness, dirtiness to overcome. Sometimes heels are a crucial part of looking \u201cput together\u201d in a way that sufficiently &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2014\/02\/06\/for-fat-women-being-stylish-isnt-a-luxury-its\/\" 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":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4127,3037,964],"class_list":["post-12109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-this-is-what-my-novel-10-rules-for-fatties-is-all-about","tag-truth","tag-ugh","post_format-post-format-quote","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109","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=12109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}