Fuck the Weight Loss Industry for what they do to ACCESSIBILTY IN EXERCISE
I swear to GOD I've been over 300lbs for a significant part of my life, I've had huge wide feet my entire life. Why is it when I go to places that are so called alternative sorts of "gyms", they have equipment with a limit of 315lbs!? They have shoes of only one width!?
I'm gonna scream... so let me get this straight.....
Bombard me with fatphobia my entire life.
Make fun of me whether or not I exercise.
Make constant assumptions about my health.
Make me a phantom in my own body,
Turning me in a being struggling to understand size in a form that is tall & meant to be BIG.
If they don't give a shit about you, your needs, your comfort, and your humanity when you're fat, they'll never give a shit about you regardless.
Maybe if there wasn't so much literal shame, harassment, and macro aggressions funded by the weight loss industry, the owners & designers of gyms and their equipment would get their heads out of their asses - make equipment for heavier people to use, make space for fat & big people, and encourage comfort first & foremost.
Not even in the name of weight loss, but just sheer encouragement of mobility & strengthening (which will make a person so much heavier!!!!)
They can't even design this shit to be intuitive in their goals oriented towards fucked up fascist eugenicist societal level manipulation of anti-fatness & making ppl afraid to take up space.
Fucking make it impossible for me to go work out as equal as anyone else and then keep punching me in the gut with such brazen disregard for my personhood based on some moral highground oppressive conception of "health". As if the level of psychic damage that is shrouded in weight loss and never being good enough is beneficial to anyone other than rich people... FUCK
If you've read this far, this is as coherent as I could be in my dulled rage before bed while running on a sleep deficit.
Thank you dearly for listening, here's a cup of tea I made for you!!! c(_)
From yesterday’s sketch & chat phone conference - just four Avatar/Korra crazies getting together and drawing. I’m still sticking to Lin for the most part. I love all her glorious expressions. And her strength. Determination. Power. Mind. (“I love her mind. I love her shoes.” - Josh)
Pass some of that wonderful, earthy strength to your friendly local evasive airbender .. I gotta make phone calls tomorrow .. :/
