{"id":13961,"date":"2013-04-09T02:23:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T02:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/04\/09\/the-reality-is-that-fat-people-are-often-supported\/"},"modified":"2013-04-09T02:23:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T02:23:38","slug":"the-reality-is-that-fat-people-are-often-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/04\/09\/the-reality-is-that-fat-people-are-often-supported\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2019re fat, it\u2019s not an eating disorder \u2014 it\u2019s a lifestyle change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Lesley Kinzel (via curvesahead<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I will always reblog this because it is so so important.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

(via infinitetransit<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I just want to nail this to every stable surface I can find. I cannot count the amount of times that I\u2019ve seen fat folks being encouraged, cajoled, and even forced into behaviors that would be recognized as disordered eating\/exercising patterns in thin folks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pretty much everything that\u2019s 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\u2019re throwing up, even injuring yourself? Berating yourself because you didn\u2019t lose ENOUGH weight this week? Constantly talking about how fat is weakness and thinness will make everything better, about how you can\u2019t 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?\u00a0<\/p>\n

That sounds exactly like every pro-ana\/pro-mia blog I\u2019ve ever seen. It\u2019s also what fat people are told we need to be doing to ourselves until we\u2019re thin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(via madamethursday<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading <\/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":[],"class_list":["post-13961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961","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=13961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}