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“Fitness” “anti-fatphobia” the math ain’t mathing chief

Are you encouraging people to be “healthy” or do you think everyone is beautiful the way they are?

Everyone knows fitness is a fatphobic tool of facism

I'm gonna link this ask where I've addressed all of this before and I'm also going to explain all the points of faulty logic here:

It you think fitness and fatness are mutually exclusive, congratulations, you have internalized a very fatphobic myth. Building muscle, improving flexibility and endurance, consuming more nutrients, prioritizing hydration and quality rest are fitness habits that can improve our quality of life. They have nothing to do with our weight and any person at any size could pursue these habits, without pursuing weight loss.

I do not care what you look like. I am not concerned with beauty, that is subjective to begin with. Only you get to decide if you're beautiful and it has absolutely nothing to do with your fitness level.

I am concerned with demystifying fitness and making it accessible to anyone who wants to pursue it. I want to decouple fitness from vanity.

Having a strong core is valuable. Having visibly defined ab muscles is not. I want to shift the zeitgeist so that fitness is not seen as a tool of aesthetic modification, but as a tool of functionality.

I am chronically ill. I will never be "healthy" but pursuing fitness has improved my chronic pain dramatically, improved my balance (which is a big deal given than I am dyspraxic) helps regulate my mental state, and so, so much more. It also helped me gain weight, despite the fact that my Crohn's disease makes putting on weight extremely hard for me.

The truth is fascists would love if we all abandoned fitness. They would love to rule over a weak populace that has no ability to fight back. But fitness isn't their tool.

They've done everything they can to poison the well around fitness and make it as inaccessible to the working class as possible. I want to undo all of that. I want fitness to be a tool of the people as it originally was.

Please destroy the idea that being fit means pursuing thinness. It does not. Please also remember that fitness is just a hobby. You don't have to pursue it if you don't want to. Lots of hobbies provide benefits but that doesn't mean it's a moral imperative that you pursue them.

It's just an option. One that's currently shrouded in myths that I want to destroy. That's what I'm here for. To teach people, who want to learn, how to pursue fitness, not weight loss, in ways that accommodate their level, their interests, and their goals. And I'm here to remind people like you that when you position fitness as antithetical to fatness, you are perpetuating fatphobia, not fighting it.

You can be thin and unfit. You can be fat and fit. Weight has literally nothing to do with it at all.

#this ask got wondering if anon is being deadass or a fatphobe purposefully misrepresenting fat activists

ozarkthedog

Trust Me: The False Prophet (2026) dir. Rachel Dretzin

fitnessadvicethatfitsinyourlife

Stop. Don't sign up for that exercise boot camp. Don't start that new diet. Don't buy that new workout equipment. Don't pour money into the machine that exists to make you hate yourself.

It's New Year's, you want to make a change. You want to improve your fitness. I get it. Those feelings are fine. But don't pay someone to make you do cardio until you throw up. Don't pay someone to put rules on your energy intake. Don't pay someone for equipment you've never used before on an activity that isn't yet a habit.

You want to move more? Free exercise routines:

Girls Gone Strong predominantly create content for perisex cis women, especially those who are pregnant or postpartum. However they still do have many generic routines suitable for anyone.

Do Yoga With Me has a good chunk of free yoga videos in a variety of different styles.

Not a routine but a big exercise library from Precision Nutrition to pick and choose from

You want to eat more nutrients? Every time you go to the grocery store, pick out a new fruit and/or vegetable to try. Already tried everything your local store has to offer? Try out different cooking methods. Here's a few ideas:

Vegetable recipes for people who hate veggies

Dipping sauces for raw veggies

Fruit Based side dishes

Dipping sauces for fresh fruits

Don't let the fitness industry shame you into spending money on their gimmicks. They don't have your best interests in mind. They don't care about your health or fitness. They only care about turning you into a repeat customer.

Fitness shouldn't be a business. You have a right to good information about how your body works. You don't deserve to get swindled trying to learn.

tuiskuh

As a woman who is both gender non-conforming and who is planning a pregnancy in the near future AND who works with children, I am very invested in the conversation about the confines of femininity, the complexities of motherhood and the fascistic expectation of women to have children. I also often find it deeply frustrating.

I do not think it should need to be said, but unfortunately it absolutely is, that nobody should ever be forced to become pregnant, be a parent or carry a pregnancy to term. Ever. This requires both complete and total abortion rights & access but also the dismantling of the gendered expectation of women to want and need children. Remaining child free should not only be possible for women, it should also be normal and completely accepted. Anything else is oppressive.

However, I am deeply bothered by how many people who share these views talk about children. I have come across many posts describing children in cruel and dehumanizing ways, emphasizing how gross and terrible children are and how much of a burden they are to their parents. This, I think is also wrong.

Children are a particularly vulnerable population. They often have very little rights and autonomy and are at the whims of adults around them, which makes then particularly vulnerable to abuse. Children are real, fully realized people who have very specific needs and considerations. Constantly discussing how disgusting and terrible children are, means attacking people who have no power and cannot defend themselves, legally or otherwise. These views cannot be separated from calls to remove children from public life, like parks and transportation, the practice of which is both dehumanizing and oppressive. This goes hand in hand with the gendered oppression of women who are unfortunately still often the primary caregivers of children. Forcing children out of the public sphere means forcing mothers out of it too. And the right to not have children needs to go hand in hand with the right to have children. Women need abortion rights and access but they also need the right and access to give birth for free. They need robust childcare and child & family friendly infrastructure. Otherwise the only people who can afford to have children are wealthy elites.

The rights of women to not have children and the rights of children and mothers go hand in hand. They are not contradictory. Being a parent is a complex relationship, one wrought with a long history of violence and oppression of children and women. It is not easy to navigate, and nobody should be expected to do it. Simultaneously, the people who do decide to do it deserve help and support, not scorn or mockery. And most of all, children, all children, even the annoying, dirty and screaming ones deserve a safe loving world that sees their full humanity, respects their perspectives and their bodily autonomy. We are all a part of creating that world for them. Society should be about being good to each other, and that includes children too.

#it is so damn important to acknowledge that children are people #it's also why I think the idea of 'ending the cycle of trauma' should expand outside family #because yes while you personally may decide to not have children #you have peers who are parents. coworkers. maybe classmates. acquaintances.#ignoring the issues brought up and then calling for spaces that isolate parents and children is not ending the cycle

ratbastarddotfuck

We need to start seriously treating the concepts of "obesity" and "weight loss" as a dangerous pseudoscience and I'm not kidding.

It's some shit that everyone thinks they can understand based on vibes but science just doesn't work that way. Real scientists have proved time and time again that it doesn't work how people assume. Many medical conditions where it's assumed weight is a "cause", something to blame the patient for, it's often actually a symptom.

Body size is based on so many individual possibilities. genetics, upbringing, wealth, what type of food you eat, what type of work you do, where you live, etc etc etc. it is impossible to control for all of these.

I was a child born to fat, impoverished, labourer parents, and I grew up doing farm labour, gaining muscle - I will never ever be thin. It's just how my body developed. And no matter how much weight I were to hypothetically lose, doctors would still push me to lose more. Family would push me to lose more. Society would push me to lose more. It will never ever ever be enough. You will never be thin enough, there is no bmi low enough to satisfy them, there is no "progress" that won't just make them pity or shame you even more. Your personal circumstances aren't important to a pseudo-scientific practice, the variables don't matter that much, it must be a one-size-fits-all solution.

Every weight loss pill, every low calorie shake or meal replacement, every weight watchers frozen meal, it all contributes to the pseudo-scientific cult of thinness. Every ad that says you're not good enough, it pushes you to drop your critical thinking skills. We have created a world where people think shitting themselves into thinness using potions with untested ingredients is healthier than having some fat on their bodies. But it's not! That's absurd! You're sending your body into a constant state of gastric shock!! And one day, when you get bored of eating tasteless nutrient paste and decide to eat something with some flavour in it, your body will react with a starvation response and store every little bit of fat that it can, because it's so used to being fucking starved. Which sends people into a panic response, buying up more pills and trying to crash-diet and lose their meagre protective layers.

Your body stores fat because that's your reserve energy. Fat is protective. I thank my body every day for storing so much energy for me, fuck knows I need it! That's your blubber!! You are a large mammal. Your body is designed to keep energy in reserve so you can sleep and stay warm and keep your brain alive. You should research the human metabolic process. You should research the cow metabolic process. You should research bear metabolic process. YOU NEED FAT!

And just like so many other pseudosciences, fatphobia and all that it entails is deeply rooted in racism and specifically antiblackness. It is not a mistake that the ozempic-chic era is coinciding with one of the biggest waves of open, globalised white supremacy we've seen in decades. Whiteness needs to perform & police whiteness constantly, maintaining appearances is THE way to stay part of the ingroup.

You must commit to removing yourself from that ingroup. Do not allow it a single toe in the door. A pseudoscience, no matter how comforting and easy to digest it may be, is not your friend. It is feeding you lie upon lie upon lie.

#it is frustrating to see when you know someone has an entirely vibes-based view on fat people #like ok. believing all fat people are just eating too much and not moving at all and if they were to be aware of dieting theyd be thin.#id argue that MOST fat people have dieted. and a lot of people dont like acknowledging that dieting can CAUSE weight gain #yknow. weight cycling?#self described anti fatlib ppl pretend that fat people are choosing to be dehumanized and isolated #that if they just choose to eat healthy and work out then theyd be thin therefore no longer oppressed!#ignoring how much weight a higher fat peron has to lose in order to be considered thin enough #like if every fat person right now managed to lose HALF their body weight there would still be fat people.#whether you like it or not there WILL be a point where your metabolism slows the fuck down even if you're in a constant deficit #yet some how WE get treated like we're in fantasy land to suggest that thinness isnt possible for everyone #and that we need to treat others as human regardless of their perceived or actual health

wolf-tail

Unlearning diet culture really makes everyone around you seem fucking insane because of how hard they keep clinging to random bullshit maling them miserable because it's "healthy".

The literal current CEO of Disney stopped eating bread and only eats pasta on holidays. People will do keto, a diet originally designed to control severe epilepsy symptoms in children, one that could raise your cholesterol by 30% and give you KIDNEY STONES, for weight loss and genuinely think that's good for them.

I know that the internet has made regular stupidity contagious and dumb shit spreads like wildfire, but it seems like another fad diet pops up on tiktok every day, each one dumber than the last. Don't do this to yourself, PLEASE

#after hearing both my fav podcasts explain in detail what the keto diet is all i can think is... wtf.#people prioritizing thinness over actual health is so damning bc wdym youre going to cut out a whole macronutrient to be smaller #the demonization of carbs (and fats) is so unfortunate bc hey man! you need carbs for your brain!!

imissthembutitwasntadisaster

People will be so mean to teenagers do you literally not remember what it was like to be sixteen. Every time I talk to a teenager I feel I should hold their hands and tell them I think they're one of the bravest people on the planet just for choosing to endure but I don't because I don't want to be creepy.

#dude being a teenager when I was one (am now 20) sucked so bad with the current events at the time. i cant imagine it now.#of course speaking mostly as someone in the US #having no real rights as a minor (especially if you happen to be trans) while being extremely aware that everything is so sucks #before I see the 'well if teenagers want to be mean to me I'll be mean back' look..#im not saying you should coddle someone being an asshole to you or that i think teens are all angels (i dont)#but as an adult you should at the very least have the maturity to not literally try to match them in pettiness #my huge issue is that most adults will talk about the behavioral and intellectual issues with the teens and kids #but then act like it's those said teens and kids inherent fault for struggling #'wow teens these days are so dumb haha' hey man. you do know that YOUR peers are their parents now right.#im not saying teens are perfect and really nobody is we're just saying that it's fucking awful for them right now and they deserve better

sandersstudies

“They’re just looking for attention.”

Oh, a human being is seeking a social response? Human being, the social animal wired to make and track social connection? A human desires the vital blood that permitted their species to survive for millennia? The human being who was born completely helpless and primed in every way by nature to seek attention and help from their community?

Wow that’s crazy. How embarrassing. Humiliating even. Should we isolate them from community? Should we call Wire Mother?

#who knew that a culture of hyper individualism could perhaps... lead to people trying to get attention #especially when said culture leads to children often being left alone and ignored unless they act out #honestly attention seeking in itself isnt bad like at all #it's only an issue when what a person is doing for that attention is harmful #and dare I say it that part of what makes people resentful towards those considered attention seekers is jealousy #i say this because I myself am working through jealousy and how that makes me feel about certain things

pansy2025

the performative male thing is also funny because like okay even if they are reading female poets and learning about feminism as a way to get girls and as an act like… isn’t that still a net good if young men are educating themselves about feminist issues like i don’t get it

pansy2025

well i do get it because it’s awfully convenient for current narriatives of american fascism that men who attempt to align themselves with anything remotely “woke” or who aren’t actively hating women be punished and brought back into line with their podcasting brethren. unfortunately some of you are falling for it

pansy2025

like i know it’s fun to make fun of men but idk i think it’s maybe worthwhile to keep in mind the cultural narriatives you’re enforcing when you do so. but then some people on here still think the pinnacle of feminism is making fun of men so

punk-bed-junction

im sure that the original discussion was moreso about deceiving women by performing as a more progressive person but like... now it's just people clowning on men for doing anything remotely associated as feminine. With the discussion never about the behaviors that are Actually The Issue.

In fact, I argue it would be more beneficial if men could just have their matcha latte, fun keychains, tote bags, feminist literature/reading, etc. in public and be seen as normal but no it's now considered embarrassing because it's "performative male"!

soup-mother

when someone self diagnoses there's the possibility that they're wrong, unlike formal diagnosis which is infallible and never ever weaponised against anyone ever :)

#shaking people (especially who were dx'd at a young age) who are heavily against people who self dx to realize that doctors arent divine #literally every issue people have with self dx is entirely a thing in prof dx except prof dx can fuck you over permanently #doctors can be wrong. they can be very biased. people can buy a prof dx. people can lie and be lied to.#everyone in the notes already said their good points on this topic but it's so baffling #like boil it down the real issue people have are people who misuse their condition against others #im not saying professionals mean nothing but again they can have biases and flawed ideas of different conditions

fatliberation

Anti-fatness has always been about white supremacy.

The ideal thin body was constructed as a marker of whiteness and “purity” before any of this was ever made to be about health. Dr. Sabrina Strings has spent her career studying this history. In her book, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, Dr. Strings discusses how constructions of race led to the thin ideal.

“Over the decades, the rise in biracial children would break down the way that slave owners saw Blackness and whiteness. To combat the hypocrisy they created, owners invented new ways to dehumanize the enslaved population. They made a calculated decision to start putting more value on white physiques versus Black ones. In her research, Strings found that Black women’s bodies were otherized even more than Black males. For colonizers who hadn’t seen diverse body types before, they quickly categorized the Black female figure as ‘deviant,’ ‘greedy,’ and ‘overtly sexual.’ The fact that we still use these terms to describe fat bodies today is all the evidence we need to understand that fatphobia is directly linked to racism, not health. This mindset was also strengthened by Protestantism. Slave owners looked for any way to prove their power over the enslaved people, and they frequently used religion as ‘proof’ of their racist superiority. Additionally, Protestant belief encouraged various ways to become closer to God, which included eating as little as possible. This would resonate the most with white women. They had as much to do with perpetuating fatphobia as their husbands. White women were desperate to show their own power against Black women on the plantation, and the difference between their bodies was the perfect rift. And so began the centuries-old belief that thinness is beautiful, and fatness is ugly” (Sassenrath, 2023).

The BMI was created in the 1800s by a statistician named Adolphe Quetelet, who did not study medicine, to gather statistics of the average height and weight of specifically white, European, upper-middle-class men to assist the government in allocating resources. It was never intended as a measure of individual body fat, build, or health (Karasu, 2016). Quetelet is also credited with founding the field of anthropometry, including the racist pseudoscience of phrenology. Quetelet’s L’homme Moyen would be used as a measurement of fitness to inspire, and as a scientific justification, for eugenics (Eugenics archive).

Now Trump is launching a new private health AI tracking system to "help the nation lose weight."

The initiative will focus on diabetes and weight management, conversational artificial intelligence that helps patients, and digital tools s

"Your body belongs to the nation! Your body belongs to the Führer! You have the duty to be healthy! Food is not a private matter!"

These were Nazi slogans (referenced in The Nazi War on Cancer, Robert N. Proctor, p 120).

If you want to fight against fascism, you must get behind fat liberation.

#thinking about how i bought this book before but when moving out it fucking vanished (likely due to my mom)#but time and time again the connection between anti fatness and racism ableism and sexism is so so deep

dragonsfrompluto

stop. streaming. movies. and. tv.

BOYCOTT ALL STREAMING SERVICES

I have unlocked an infinite real life side quest:

finding my favorite films and shows on DVD, and discovering new films and shows while looking for my favorites

where can you get DVDs?

thrifting: delightful, it saves stuff from going into landfills, always cool grannies or girls in cute outfits to say hi to and shop with.

pro tip: don't go to goodwill or savers. that'll leave you with a lot of churches or religious orgs for your options, but hey at least theyre the ones that typically also run food banks and offer thrift stores and rummage sales and rent assistance!

yard sales: a little harder to find, you might need to join some Facebook groups to find people posting about theirs, but better to use Facebook to find yard sales and save stuff from landfills!

the library: the library has tons of physical media besides books! DVDs included! (also video games, audio books, books on tape, even national park passes!)

online: anywhere you can buy someone's stuff online you can buy DVDs!

make it a community thing

⭐️start your own free blockbuster

⭐️hold film parties with friends and family, find free public spaces to project a movie, rent a library room, find a local bookstore to host film nights!

⭐️buy collections and trade with your friends and coworkers

I do support PBS & dropout tho, they've got great content 🫶

dn-838

Luigi Mangione could be getting the death penalty…

This man is innocent, his appearance and build doesn’t match that of the killers, the only “motive” he had was a convenient written confession showing that he supposedly viewed healthcare companies as “parasitic” and too expensive (which does somewhat contradict the actual killers actions) he had said note and the murder weapon conveniently on him while living his ordinary life, the killer held the gun in his right hand while Luigi is left-handed, Luigi and the Killer were potentially seen simultaneously, they wore slightly different coats.

The NYPD KNOW these are different people, they know the evidence is lacking, this isn’t a mistaken identity, it’s framing, they are trying to make themself appear to still be control by catching this man, humiliating him, killing him, when they know full well that the person they are prosecuting ISNT EVEN THE RIGHT GUY! This is an injustice! This is not a fair trial! This is downright tyranny!

#im genuinely so fucking afraid for this man #we cant stop talking about him. we have to make an uproar #i KNOW the gov and the capitalists doesnt want him to be free because he has become a figure #he does not deserve this

chrrykate

It makes me sad how a huge political event will happen and catch the internet up in a storm + everyone will be like “this is the beginning of a revolution!!!” “We are finally opening our eyes!!!!” And it all seems like the end of the world to them but a week later everyone forgets about it….. like??? I don’t get it???? Is everyone just too comfortable in their middle class lives that they just completely forgot??? Did your sons soccer game distract you??? Were you too busy at your golf club meeting????

rosemaries-shroom

Honestly? The middle class doesn't exist anymore. A majority of the adults who could cause a storm in this country are a paycheck away from losing everything. Some are one illness away from losing everything.

Without a tangible, widespread way of providing a way to survive, you won't be able to convince people that it's (for lack of a better word) okay to cross any lines

You mentioned the son's soccer game, and while I get the stereotype you're going for, it is genuine that having a kid does make you way extra risks. You're old enough to see what's going on and decide to risk your safety.

My 4y/o can't. It's my responsibility, as their parent, to weigh the risk to their safety as if they will grow up to outlive this shit. That's a risk every parent (the ones who genuinely care at least) has to weigh. "ThiNK oF tHe cHilDRen" gets tossed around as a bullshit cover so frequently it's hard to use it sincerely, but it is a genuine concern

Too many people are scared or already given in to the "doom" for this country to fall into a revolt. They've bought into the idea that a single person can't do anything, so why try? If Musk literally stealing the information on every taxpayer wasn't enough to spark an open revolution, what is it going to take?

And the bitter, fucked up reality is? I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know how to provide for the people who'd be fighting, how we'd feed them, how we'd shelter them safely, how we'd treat the injuries and trauma that would come from any action right now. I don't know how to bring all the bickering groups together without the infighting crushing each other first.

Until the big news of the day is that a new civil war has officially broken out, the majority of us are stuck sitting on our rage. Hands tied behind our backs, watching as the house burns down around us

punk-bed-junction

I also don't think targeting the middle class is any way productive and takes away the fact that the rich and wealthy are the ones behind the horrible events that we've all been exposed to constantly.

While there have definitely been major events forever, I do think 2020 did sort of "start" the focus on many major political events that are opening people's eyes very often. Let's not ignore the very real efforts that people have done and organized even long after the "public" have moved on from it, let's also acknowledge that the idea that everyone should be focused on this 24/7 is unrealistic and a recipe for burnout.

We can't expect to see a revolution like we wish we could see when this country has specifically been building isolation between eachother.

Even if it's smaller, even if I'm not changing the world from what I do, participating and creating community even in smaller groups can help. Donating resources that I can get helps. Providing information to protect yourself helps.

We aren't comfortable. But we have limits too.

#sorry if some of the word is janky here

thecassafrasstree

Had a few folks interested in how I made the patches I posted for Solarpunk Aesthetic Week, so I thought I'd give y'all my step-by-step process for making hand-embroidered patches!

First, choose your fabric and draw on your design. You can use basically any fabric for this - for this project I'm using some felt I've had lying around in my stash for ages.

Next, choose your embroidery floss. For my patches I split my embroidery floss into two threads with 3 strands each, as pictured. You can use as many strands in your thread as you prefer, but for the main body of my patches I prefer 3 strands.

Next you're going to start filling your design using a back stitch.

First, put in a single stitch where you want your row to start.

Poke your needle up through the fabric 1 stitch-length away from your first stitch.

Poke your needle back down the same hole your last stitch went into so they line up end-to-end.

Repeat until you have a row of your desired length (usually the length of that colour section from one end to the other). Once you have your first row, you're going to do your next row slightly offset from your first row so that your stitches lay together in a brick pattern like this:

Make sure your rows of stitches are tight together, or you'll get gaps where the fabric shows through.

Rinse and repeat with rows of back stitch to fill in your patch design.

When you're almost to the end of your thread, poke your needle through to the back of the fabric and pull the thread under the back part of the stitching to tuck in the end. Don't worry if it looks messy - no one's gonna see the back anyway.

This next step is fully optional, but I think it makes the patch design really pop. Once your patch is filled in, you can use black embroidery floss to outline your design (or whatever colour you want to outline with - it's your patch, do what you want). I use the full thread (6 strands, not split) of embroidery floss to make a thicker outline.

I use the same back stitch I used to fill the piece to make an outline that adds some separation and detail. You could use most any 'outlining' stitch for this, but I just use back stitch because it's just easier for me to do.

Once you're finished embroidering your patch, it's time to cut it out!

Make sure to leave a little border around the edge to use for sewing your patch on your jacket/bag/blanket/whatever, and be careful not to accidentally cut through the stitches on the back of the patch.

If you have a sturdy enough fabric that isn't going to fray, you can just leave it like this. If not, I recommend using a whip stitch/satin stitch to seal in the exposed edges (I find that splitting your embroidery floss into 3-strand threads works best for this).

And then you're done! At this point you can put on iron-on backing if you want, or just sew it on whatever you wanna put it on. Making patches this way does take a long time, but I feel that the results are worth it.

Thanks for reading this tutorial! I hope it was helpful. If anyone makes patches using this method, I'd love to see them! 😁

coveredinredpaint

punk rat

you could say he's wearing a rattlevest

i made him for my bf, were making rats that look like ourselves to swap them.

i am so proud of how this little guy turned out, his jacket is looking better than mine, and its fully from scraps and other stuff i still had laying around