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Bi | infp~ An archive of me depression posting and using foul language. Maybe some memes. I post alot about fat issues, body image, and being a fat woman, I will not and do not debate over fat womens existence. Pro ana and beauty blogs are not welcome! you can find my thoughts, feelings, experiences on fatness in my #fat girl thoughts tag ...if you can find it.

[jaehyurb]

I wish feminists understood how fat womens existence is treated and that all the sexual assault and harassment is thrown towards us just as much as any other woman, it is done in the most fat fetishy way and is exactly why yall cannot recognize when fat women are being sexually humiliated or even fully violated. 1. Yall think any attention we receive is a blessing and 2. You equate sexual violation with sexual attraction instead of seeing sexual harassment and abuse for what it is, power and domination.

[jaehyurb]

To men, fat women living and existing as such is porn to them. Once a woman is fatter than most she becomes nothing but an object. Shes the object of fear and disgust for women and shes the object of sexual humiliation/abuse for men. Realllyyyyy wish these things were talked about among women as much as other things are talked about.

[katzenwagenkitty]

big thanks to @jaehyurb! ty moot for opening up this conversation, it doesn’t get talked about enough in these circles.

Ok, so! I grew up consuming horrific amounts of media. If it’s a show or movie, I have probably seen it. Throughout all my watch time, I started to notice a trend in how media, particularly American media, portrays fat women vs fat men.

There are so many popular classic TV shows starring fat men. The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Sopranos, Spongebob Squarepants, The King of Queens, Modern Family, Cheers, Drake and Josh, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and many more. Movies too.

While men in these shows were made fun of for their weight, it never overshadowed other aspects of their personality. For example, Tony Soprano. In the show, Tony gets made fun of for his weight by his colleagues a lot. However, there have been multiple instances where Tony responded with physical aggression in response to being called fat. Times where Tony responds negatively to others over comments about his weight are usually taken seriously by both the show and its audience. His fatness usually never takes precedence over his mobster nature, oftentimes his fatness compliments his character and allows us to see a more human aspect of a relatively rough person.

On the flip side, fat women in media are rarely portrayed and when they are, it’s mandatory for them to constantly apologize for their weight, looking for some way to lose weight, feeling constant shame, or obsessing about their weight one way or another.

I can’t name 5-10 shows starring fat women. Roles where fat women aren’t being constantly berated are even less prevalent. The only somewhat positive movie that comes to mind is Hairspray, and even in that, conversations about the main female character’s weight takes up a fair portion of dialogue. Hell, the main characters mother is also fat, and a majority of her dialogue is about how she’s ashamed of being fat and dumpy and therefore, “unloveable”.

This showed me (and probably other young fat girls) from a young age that fatness in men is tolerable and even lovable, but fatness in women makes you irredeemably subhuman. Like a lot of ideas from media, this view has been proliferated heavily in the real world, warping society’s views and treatment of fat women.

Reading feminist literature has helped me understand the root causes of this disparity is the relationship between women and beauty. Be amicable and be beautiful, the world says, for that’s the only measure of worth for a woman. If you aren’t either of these things as a woman (i.e. being fat) it is socially acceptable (and encouraged) to treat you like pond scum.

If we as radical feminists want to address the destructive nature beauty culture has on women, we must address fat women as a class and how that class is treated much worse in comparison to other similar groups, solely because they are deemed more “unattractive”. Even if you feel some way towards fat women or fatness in general, you cannot deny that this dynamic is very lopsided, with most vitriolic comments about fatness being directed towards fat women.

Like put aside your disdain towards fatness for ONE ☝️ second and realize how fatphobia (with a lot of misogyny mixed in) absolutely destroys women and our solidarity. If we can’t fight against these ideas without putting down fat women, we are never going to dismantle the hegemony of beauty that entraps all women.

I’d like to write more about this, if anyone wants to see that just lmk and I’ll keep going lol

Thank you for reading and I hope you’re having a good morning, afternoon, or evening, wherever you are.

[catchymemes]

melting candle cakes

[weepingwidar]

Laura Benson (American, 1997) - Burning Nourishments (n.d.)

[campyvillain]

i see it so i See it I see Thart with me EyeBals

when i see it i Look at it Put my eyes on it with My sightballs I look with my look balls and see It so in front of me

i see it with my eyedbarls

[venustapolis]

Evening landscape with ruins (Ferdinand Knab, 1891)

[v8ftw-again]

[delicatuscii-wasbella102]

Eclipse of the Sun in Venice in July 8, 1842 by Ippolito Caffi.

[ferociouslycreativemystery]

Clouds over sunset in Lazise on July 13, 2017 by me Only 175 years, 5 days and 124 km apart

[kylieminvogue]

KYLIE MINOGUE - “CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD” 2001, dir. Dawn Shadforth

[odddogs]

(source)

bonapartenykus body plan

[helpthisspreadplease]

I am posting this on behalf of someone I know, she has asked for help in identifying this man to report him to his employers. It is suspected his badge is FIFA related for the upcoming World Cup. The following is a condensed version of the information.

This man was following a young lady of 19 years old, you can see his phone is angled to record her. He checked multiple times to make sure the angle was correct and stared at her the entire time. He stayed behind her despite her attempts to have him pass her, intent on following her.

She became frightened and went to the police whom she talked to for several minutes, they escorted her to her car and as they were going they saw that he had been waiting for her, he got into a car that was waiting outside with another man as they stared her down while slowly driving by. She was able to get these photos of him after observing his suspicious behavior.

[rabiesofficial]

Hello I’ve verified this and I request help in finding this man. In the LA area, I can get more details later on location. Thank you.

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

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[9atherin9]

palacio de cristal in el retiro park (madrid, spain), built in 1887 by architect ricardo velazquez bosco

[nora-yoko]

[jaehyurb]

Went to eastern market and found a Pagan stand and bought miss maams scents and they work. They smell great. The goddess scent is strong.

[yunogf]

[punk-pins]

tumblr users, overall, have low financial literacy. and like, I get it. it’s not shocking that a majority user base of chronically broke-adjacent people are intimidated by and/or think it’s useless to learn about financial systems. I’m not surprised by this. but I do think it’s really really important to have an understanding of business and financial concepts, even when it’s dense and scary, because it’s fundamental to how the modern world works. this post is inspired by the notes on this post about the idea of bankification and is for an american audience.

when you deposit a paycheck in a traditional bank account, you go online and see the number in your balance. to you, it looks like there is a single account that quarantines your money away from everybody else’s. you may think that when you deposit money in the bank, the bank is just holding that money for you, but actually, by depositing money is a bank, you are lending the bank company your money.

a bank company’s core function is to make money by bundling together the deposits that many customers have lent it, and investing that money in the stock market. the bank’s investments earn interest, which is the bank’s profit. if you have a savings account, you’re essentially telling the bank “hey, I plan to have this money sitting here for a while without drawing on it.” a savings account is a more stable investment base than a checking account for the bank, which is why the company incentivizes you to have one. when you earn interest on a savings account, that is the bank giving you a tiny kickback of the money they are making through investing your (and others’ blended) deposits.

the traditional banking system is insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation (FDIC), which is a government agency. if you took all your money out of the bank and hid it under your mattress, if somebody broke into your house and stole it, you will lose all your money. but the government insures money in traditional banks, usually up to $250,000 per consumer account. this means that even if the bank company’s investments all fail and the bank company loses all your cash, the government will bail the bank out, and you will not lose your money.

by putting your money in a traditional bank, you ensure your money is protected, you get a small kickback of interest, and you get access to the convenience of the bank’s online platform to track your finances. you also get a debit card to easily make purchases by drawing directly from your accounts. for the bank company, they get billions of dollars of interest-free loans, in the form of their customer’s deposits, to invest in the stock market. at its core, ignoring fees and credit cards and mortgages, this is how the banking system works.

bankification is the idea that non-banking companies are trying to operate like banks. this includes tech companies like Apple offering credit cards, but an aspect of bankification that is less understood is companies incentivizing consumers to give them interest-free loans. while banks are regulated by the government in exactly when and how they can operate within this business model, other companies trying to profit through this model are not always beholden to these regulations because their activities are not technically considered banking. let’s look at an example: loyalty programs.

in 2025, starbucks has an estimated $2 billion in deferred revenue from their loyalty program. deferred revenue is like a gift card; the company receives money because the customer paid up-front for the gift card, but the company is beholden to discount a future purchase by the pre-paid amount. there are multiple advantages to receiving deferred revenue for a company.

when a customer loads money onto their starbucks loyalty account, they are essentially buying a digital gift card. remember how banks encourage consumers to put money into savings accounts because it is a long-term holding account, which makes it a more stable investment base? once you buy a gift card, you cannot convert it back into cash. the money cannot leave the company, making a very stable investment base. starbucks offers a lot of benefits and discounts for customers who load money onto their loyalty accounts because starbucks recognizes the value of a captive investment base of interest-free loans. when many customers prepay through the loyalty program, starbucks is using that pooled money the same way a bank does: investing it to make even more money.

as a side note, two other major advantages of this gift card model for companies is inflation and breakage. money loses value over time through inflation. when you buy a gift card, you pay the money upfront, and the company can invest that money sooner at its higher value. breakage is the idea that if a gift card is bought but never redeemed, then the company essentially got money for nothing.

now, does this bankification through loyalty programs directly hurt consumers? well, not really. consumers who participate in these sorts of loyalty programs get benefits like discounts. the problem is indirect harms: that this money is uninsured for the consumer, and the deferred revenue investment base is less regulated than traditional banks.

if starbucks’ investments failed and the company died, any money those customers had paid into the loyalty program but had not yet used on purchases would disappear. the money is not insured, so the customer wouldn’t get it back. the same is true for keeping your money in any non-FDIC insured company, including companies like PayPal and Cashapp*. (*some services from those platforms, usually the credit cards, are insured because they have a backing partner bank. but a sitting balance in a free account is usually not FDIC-insured. don’t leave your money sitting in these accounts.)

because companies investing their deferred revenue is regulated and taxed differently than traditional banks’ investments, not only if there less protection for the consumer, but there is less protection for the wider economy. If a bankified company with significant investments into other bankified company fails, this can cause a shockwave effect similar to the 2008-9 financial crisis wherein all the interconnected bankified companies are destabilized. banks are heavily regulated to avoid that happening again, but bankified companies are not beholden to that legislation.

just cause it’s worth a mention, the predatory opposite-twin of the loyalty-program type bankification is buy-now pay-later bankification. buy now pay later is a more approachable way of saying financing. a mortgage is a type of financing; the bank pays for your house up-front, and you need to repay them over a period of years with interest and potential fees. again, traditional banks are heavily regulated in what they can do with financing. bankified companies offer financing on their purchases because they aren’t beholden to the same strict regulation, and they can set the time period, fees, and interest on their financing to whatever they want. bankified financing is often much more directly predatory to the consumer.

[alessandro-accebbi]

“Her Cats”, Japanese ink by Sanae Sugimoto