Out Of The Caverns Of Num-Yabisc

31st May 2012

Post reblogged from Borderline Everything with 35 notes

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randomlancila:

micheleface replied to your post: Here’s the thing about ‘progression photos’.

don’t some people have like, legit reasons to lose weight though? I get where you’re coming from but to put “health” in quotation marks as if it’s some silly myth seems snobby to me.

But that’s the thing. It is a silly myth. You can’t judge health by weight. You simply can’t. So therefore, you cannot assume that someone is getting healthier because they’re losing weight.

What’s snobby here is that people assume there’s only one way for a body to visibly get healthier. Some people change their habits for the better, and their bodies don’t change at all. Some people change their habits for the better, and they gain weight. Some bodies lose weight. Therefore, posting ‘progression’ photos does absolutely nothing except enforce the untrue stereotype that a) to get healthier, your body has to change, and b) to be healthier, your body has to get smaller/tighter.

Regardless, even if someone does decide to lose weight, which is something I really don’t have a say in, and they decide to make a fitness/weight loss/whatever blog, that’s fine. I won’t follow it. But I find it to be pointless, stupid, and to be quite honest, disrespectful when someone starts reblogging things from their fitness blog to their personal blog. If you’re not going to keep it separate, what was the point of making the separate blog?

Ultimately, I find weight loss talk extremely triggering, in addition to the reasons I listed above. 

Its illuminating to me that fat activists routinely get this kind of pushback for not being deferential to diet privilege. Which is what this is. Its privilege and the strong, righteous sense of entitlement that comes with it. Fat people aren’t allowed to opt-out of diet celebration. We aren’t allowed to remove ourselves from that poisonous culture. To those who defend and enforce diet privilege, we owe them our participation. It is an obligation and walking away is treated as grand offense and insult.

I’m sick and tired of watching diet culture be presented as the put-upon victim of fat activism and far too many fat activists have been far too eager to contribute to this dishonest framing in a desire to calm the fears of dieters that we aren’t going to try to do to them what they actually ARE trying to do to us. Something they never seem to feel any need to question. Their irrational desire to feel victimized by disagreement simply further entitles them to ignore the fact that the only people whose “body autonomy” is actually in any peril as with regards to weight are fat people. No one is banning dieting. No one is proposing laws against dieting. No one is getting fired for losing weight. People ARE proposing laws against fat people and they are increasingly finding traction. People are fired for being fat. We face real consequences, and yet they keep trying to recenter the discussion on their hurt feelings over our supposed “snobbery”.

If you don’t understand why fat people would want to remove themselves from the noxious visual language of “before and after” or “progression” photos, then you have no interest in understanding what it means to live in a culture with a wealth of cues and cliches designed to communicate a fundamental unacceptable of life in a fat body. If you don’t get what the cultural language of “before and after” shots communicates to a fat person, you are either being willfully ignorant or you simply so firmly affirm those hostile connotations that you are puzzled that anyone would object. We are not beholden by the limitations a fat shaming society would want to hold us to.

Tagged: fat shamingbody positivitydiet-industrial complex

Source: randomlancila

30th May 2012

Post reblogged from dracula's shame beef with 14 notes

skyrim playthroughs as wakfu characters

remingtonsmisse:

eva: you can only do the main quest AND NOTHING ELSE. once you’re done, that’s it, go buy a house and sit in it forever. fall off cliffs a lot.

grovy: never finish the main quest, only do sidequests if you get to fight something and go in dungeons. do the companions questline.

yugo: the main quest is the last thing you do in the game. you have to do every other single quest before then, especially if it involves helping someone less fortunate than you. then never finish the main quest because you don’t want to kill dragons.

amalia: say fuck all, save up your gold and go buy proudspire manor. make your follower do all of the work.

ruel: do nothing except save your gold and spend it on nothing. only do sidequests if you get gold from them.

remington: only do the thieves guild questline and get all of the daedric artifacts. have a khajit follower.

qilby: whichever class you pick is THE superior race (so choose a high elf), read all of the books (you actually have to read them, no just opening them to see if they elevate a skill), finish the civil war questline and then kill all of your friends/every other high elf you come across. hang out in dwemer ruins. become the thane in every hold and collect every single flower you come across.

nox: get the lexicon asap (the dwemer box) and move into some dwemer ruins. do nothing else.

adamai: get bored before you even leave helgen and start a new game.

Tagged: WakfuSkyrimaccurate

Source: remingtonsmisse