#fat problems

[minedreamsareheretwo]

Shout out to the girlies who aren't afraid to admit that they like their men a little (or a lot) sweaty 👏👏👏

Oh and don't worry big boys, you have nothing to be embarrassed about this summer. You can't help it, can you?

[faithlessfairy]

I’m watching euphoria for the first time because I’m stuck in bed sick again.

Some first watch Euphoria thoughts:

I finally understand all the zendaya praise (I had only seen her in dune and was unimpressed don’t @ me)

In fact the acting in general is quite good

Rue is so fucking well written it’s a shame no one else is lmao (except Jules who’s decently good)

Actually I take that back, mckay, nate’s father, fez, and even random male side characters are actually alarmingly well written…huh…I sense a theme here…..

I love the angle of introducing each character’s childhood before each episode, and then making the themes connect, very fun

It does feel like a little bit of a cop-out sometimes tho, when it’s used to tell instead of show. Like learning that cass’s dad is a deadbeat addict who left her and thats why she’s head over heals for every guy she’s dated, it doesn’t actually really show me who she is or how she thinks. Nor does it change the stakes of her current relationship or challenge. It seems pretty consistent for most of the girls to be hardcore into whoever they’re dating, how does this backstory make it different for cass? I can make assumptions about how her new issue is impacting her, ig?Especially hearing McKay doesn’t wanna go through with it, might be impacting her differently due to her father’s abandonment. But it’s all assumptions, the show itself is giving me nothing. Nothing different than how most people would react in her shoes I mean. I’d rather be shown through metaphor or film language how this new experience connects for her to her father leaving. Instead I’m guessing, based on a 2 minute biography of her upbringing, feels like reading a wiki page and going “huh I wonder if that’s why she was sad. Idk tho cuz I think everyone would be sad to get this type of bad news. *shrugs*”

I understand the hyper-realism angle, both aesthetically and thematically, as well as to be used as a tool for breaking tension. But I don’t think it always hits, and instead makes the show somewhat of a tonal disaster at times.

The most important thing ever is this tho:

Why they have to do my girl Kat dirty like this in the costuming department!!!!!! (And lowkey the writing department in a couple ways so far, but that’s another story)

Okay listen, we’ve got a storyline about non-trafficked underage sex work, a story about over sexualizing oneself as an attempt to reclaim power within heteropatriarchy, one about men secretly adoring fat girls but then treating them invisible (or like shit) in public, about the internalized desperation for male sexual validation being x10 worse when growing up as a fat girl, and a bout how sexualizing oneself may feel like a form of power but always has a cost and becomes a strange roundabout way for the system you’re attempting to overpower to still get you…any of these storylines INDIVIDUALLY are all SO revolutionary……….TO SEE THESE ALL IN ONE CHARACTERS STORY IS UNHEARD OF AND SUCH A BLESSING

SO WHY THEY DRESSING HER IN ALL THIS TACKY FAUX LEATHER AND SCRAWNY LITTLE STRAPS AND CHEAP LITTLE CHAINS THAT WOULD FALL APART IN A DAY

WHY IS HER LIPSTICK NEVER FLATTERING AND HER EYESHADOW ALWAYS GARAGE DOOR BLUE

WHY DOES EVERYONE ELSE LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE APERSONAL MAKEUP ARTIST, AND WALK ADOUND WEARING DESIGNER, AND THE ONLY GIRL HERE WITH HER OWN DISPOSABLE INCOME IS SHOPPING AT SHEIN

oh wait I’m sorry….we know why, don’t we? I can’t believe I almost forgot….we absolutely already know the fuck why.

[liberaljane]

The Body Mass Index is racist, sexist and ableist.

Art by Liberal Jane

Digital illustration of a fem with a purple layered bob haircut. She’s wearing a green sports bra, black pants and has a insulin pump. She is pointing to text that reads, ‘BMI is racist sexist and ableist.’

[onehand-oneheart]

I hate being scared about going to doctors because I'm worried they won't take me seriously because of my weight. I've been noticing more exteme exhaustion and struggling with breathing but I don't want to go a doctor only for them to write it off as 'you're overweight, lose weight'

[bibbitybobbitybackoff]

HOW am I supposed to date when within 50 miles of me, all the straight girls want dick and all the straight guys want cis and all the gays want dick and all the lesbians want cis and all the t4t want binary and all the bis and pans want skinny??? WHY isn’t there more demand for fat AFAB queers who just want to have fun and cuddle and kiss and sometimes fuck, I mean goddamn. I think we’re sexy as fuck and a few months ago I had a queer partner just like me with exactly my same problem but then we broke up and now idek where to begin looking for a new relationship bc everyone either fetishizes me or just isn’t interested

[imthefailedartist]

Collecting Fat Taxes

The entertainment industry owes me a Fat Tax. And the overdue balance is astronomical.

The following is what I'm owed per every offense. This is for main, side, and background characters, etc.

Every time a fat character is slovenly and food obsessed: 3 movies

The fat person is the bully, not because they're fat, but it's definitely because they're fat: 14 per

A fat character appears only to be compared to our assumed to be skinny character now fat: 30 per

Fat character used to be skinny, old love interests no longer interested: 12 per

Any fucking movie like The Whale (2022): 16 per

A fat person is minding their business and is brought into the story because a character is making fun of them: 6 per

Fat person has self love but has to prove it to others. 2 per (ex. Willowdean in Dumplin)

Movie could be cute romance/romcom but instead focuses on self-love: 7 per

Zuckerbaby (1985, German) & Baby Cakes (1989) or any other movie like them: 9 per

Fat person is married and miserable or being cheated on (with skinny person) with because fat: 50 per

Skinny actress has round face, so they are constantly cast to play fat (ex. Amy Schumer, Mae Whitman, Rene Zellwegger, teen Ani Luckiest Girl Alive (2023): 165 per

Bachelorette (2012): 10K per

Anything from the early aughts in which a skinny round faced and size 8 woman is lamenting about being fat and is treated like she is 900 pounds (Bridget Jones, Tyra Banks in hee bating suit, Ugly Betty): 90 per, in addition to all the profits Slim Fast made during that period

The Fat people episodes of procedurals (Bones and CSI): 28 per

Fat character is stalker because no one could possibly love them normally: 45 per

Fat character fucks, but is relationship averse (see any show 2019 onward): 1 per

This is the industries new way of saying sorry for the fat jokes that we're still going to continue doing.

Fat Amy getting Bumper only for his spin-off show love interest to be different and skinny: 39 per

News reports B-roll, for an obesity segment, of fat people walking down the street: 52 per

True story, real person fat, adaptation, actor skinny: 8 per

"Her over me?": 72 per

Fat persons weight being mentioned even though it has no effect on the story: 600 per

A fat body used for shock value: 49 per

Movie stars a fat person, and the plot is about them being outcasts because they're fat: 5 per

Fat character learns to love themself: 10 per

Show is about bullying= bad, unless person is fat (All of Us are Dead 2022); 20 per

Character likes Fat women but never dates/fucks/oogles/looks at one outside of the episode where they are outed as being a chubby chaser (ex. Malik Wright, The Game (2006-2015 + Spin-off) Danny Wheeler, Baby Daddy (2012-2017): 22 per

A fat person makes fun of another fat person for being fat because they aren't fat like them: 20 per

Skinny person Friendzones fat person, not because they're fat, [sotto voce] it's because they're fat: 11 per

Fat actress' career dies because they are fat and therefore are not for any sorry that does not involve their weight: 82 per

A skinny person in a fat suit: 8 per

A character finds love with another fat person because they, too, are fat: 2 per (looking at you, The Sleepover (2004)

A skinny person learns a lesson through a fat person: 6 per

Character was fat in the book, skinny in the movie: 3 per

Super hot or ugly snake dates fat person to get closer to someone else or to steal or to something: 6 per

Super traditionally hot person likes fat person, everyone, including fat person, skeptical and/or suprised: 13 per

Fat character is an idiot, not because they're fat, but it's definitely because they're fat: 15 per

Fat character finds self-love through bump on the head: 2 per

Fat person loses weight, makes them hot, and an asshole: 6 per

Whatever the hell Sam Levinson thought he was doing with Kat on Euphoria: 550 per

I want 1,000 movies and shows for every article ever written about a fat person's body and how they had the audacity to be nude, even you fuck-ass feminist publications who write condescending articles about how brave it is. (Ex. Any article written about Hannah on GIRLS)

Feel free to comment with your Fat Tax and how much is owed per offense. I'm sure I've missed some

[artsy-biggirl]

This is evidence.

[magicalgirlastarion]

Fat girls trying to talk about their experiences: “Thin privilege is being able to walk into any store and find cute clothes in your size, something I’ve never been able to do…”

Some skinny girl, inevitably: “Oh yeah??? Well FAT PRIVILEGE is being able to go out to bars and not have anyone hit on you!! That’s something I’ve never been able to do!!! Did you ever think of that??? Did you ever think of my struggles??? It’s exhausting being the societal beauty standard everyday!!! Everywhere I go ppl throw roses at my feet and I’m sick of it!!!”