Musings from the Soapbox @musingsfromthesoapbox - Tumblr Blog

For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of lives. It's time for a new paradigm.

“Diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. “

chrisco90

Fatsplaining at its finest. I don’t give a fuck when someone chooses to not be healthy, but don’t sit there and make bullshit excuses and blame anything other than yourself and your lack of self control. Take responsibility and own up to it, you’re not fooling anyone.

bogleech

I’m sorry other people’s shapes make you so angry that you pretend science is wrong

mschaos

Obviously this person must think climate change is wrong and vaccines cause autism

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Author posted some great follow up tweets: https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1043141336239497217

#fat acceptance #kroppsaksept

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chubstr

UK Based Big & Tall Retailer Bad Rhino offers stylish, affordable clothing with sizes to 8X. Find out what they have to offer in your size.

There’s a shop out there selling affordable, yet stylish men’s clothing with sizes to 8X. Get to know BadRhino: http://bit.ly/29CgARR

#i don't know this retailer personally but that doesn't mean it's not worth knowing

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reblog if youre still not over the library of alexandria

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breath in for 4 seconds

hold your breath for 7 seconds

exhale breath for 8 seconds

repeat once or twice more.

This causes an autonomic nervous system shift from a sympathetic (fight or flight reaction) state to a parasympathetic response.

Use this for panic/anxiety attacks, exams, presentations.

musingsfromthesoapbox

Reblogging 'cause it works.

fyeahvbo

I'm not asking a question, just making a comment. I am in my 60s now and have always been large. I wish I had had the confidence these women do to dress how I pleased when I was younger. I wish I had it now, but can't get past the conditioning, a lot of it was from my own family. Good luck to all of them. They are lovely. Suze

Thank you Suze. It is hard to unlearn, and it is a constant process, but you can still dress however you want at any age.

#living while fat

lifeismymiracle

Oh my god, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen.

Anne Lamott (via girlwoes)

#things to remember

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Re-blog this if you love M*A*S*H!

I want to see how many of us there are. 💚💛

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Artist Paints the Universe and Nature into Black Women’s Hair

Pierre Jean-Louis is a multimedia artist based in New York and Philadelphia, who has built up quite a social media following as a result of his unique works. Jean-Louis paints mystical images of the universe and nature onto images of Black women’s natural hair. His intricate works feature flowers, vines, and even an entire forest, all seamlessly woven into coils and kinks. Jean-Louis even invites his followers to tag him in their photos on Instagram so that he can consider their portraits as well.

#black

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New Body-Positive Photoseries Aims to Empower Plus-Size Black Women

I love how they’re being portrayed in various forms. Dainty and feminie, not dainty and feminine, carefree, etc… Hopefully we’ll continue to see illustrations like this for all types of black women. Including trans black women, disabled black women, and more…

Helen Mozão‘s new photosereies, ‘GORDA FLOR ‘(Fat Flower), aims to empower and uplift the often marginalized plus-size black woman. The images are stunning. Take a look:

http://blackgirllonghair.com/2016/04/new-body-positive-photoseries-aims-to-empower-plus-size-black-women/

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I needed to see this. I really did.

#fat #black

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by Jason Parker

Devils Spring System, Florida

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ugh i want to go tubing

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I wanna come

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I love it there

#travel

HOW TO: GLITTER BEARD TUTORIAL (FOR THE HOLIDAYS)

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAOoA3nqOM)

#FatGirlFlow

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it’s so weird that we think of gracefulness as a thin person thing bc thin people really don’t have to ever learn to be graceful?

I mean like thin people live in spaces made for them, they don’t have to squeeze through furniture arranged for someone much smaller or sit lightly on chairs not made for their weight or handle phone screens made for narrower fingers or otherwise carefully navigate a series of obstacles created by a world designed only for smaller bodies.

And even when it’s dropping things etc., when fat people do it it’s somehow tied back into fatness?? and seen as shameful to have fat fingers etc. when it’s more or less neutral for thin people, charming and adorable even, so they really don’t need to learn to be graceful and like… fat people do.

Every day fat people squeeze through small spaces without knocking things off or sit in chairs made too delicately without breaking them or handle instruments designed for someone literally half our size. Thin people barrel through or throw themselves into furniture or grab carelessly at things and are seen as more graceful, often literally just because nothing breaks when they’re careless.

Because things are designed for their bodies and not ours.

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hmm kinda wanna reclaim this for Fat Folks….can #GraceFULL become a thing?

#GraceFULL #living while fat

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draw stick figures. sing off key. write bad poems. sew ugly clothes. run slowly. flirt clumisly. play video games on easy. you do not need to be good at something to enjoy the act. talent is overrated. do things you like doing. it’s ok to suck

#yes #life

myriadsubtletiess-blog

Why is it always a “future” idea or a goal with no follow through to educate young men about treating women with respect and educating them on consent/recognizing that they aren’t entitled to women’s bodies but we very actively and presently urge women to utilize every preventative measure available and to be hyper-vigilante to the point of damn near paranoia about the risk of sexual assault? Why is the former seen as some lofty and unrealistic goal, while women living in a sustained state of panic while interacting with men is perfectly fine? Why is it acceptable that I as a woman am expected to take defense classes, carry around weapons, avoid leaving my house alone at night or at all at night, learn basic tenants of emotional manipulation and psychology to spot potential rapists, and to alter my behaviors and attire in the HOPE that doing so will deflect a rapist’s attention from me to another woman - when men aren’t even expected to engage in conversations with their peers about consent?

#rape tw #feminism

fancybidet

Thinking a lot about being a superfat in a relationship with another superfat and how it affects your interaction with the physical world. It also applies if you are doing friendship things with one or more superfats. People glare at us, say nasty things behind their hands, doctors treat you like you are in fat cahoots, sitting together is sometimes impossible, you need to sit at a restaurant table where you won’t get in the way of Important Skinny People, if you walk together on a footpath you are treated if you are physically blockading the way for aforementioned Important Skinny People… Etc.

Just let me do nice things with my superfat partner and friends, world, without treating me like I don’t deserve it.

#fat acceptance