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[fattybefit]

Oh boy

Hello all

So, as I said, I didn’t get to make a new post until 2017. And I just want to point out that it is REALLY hard to have any semblance of a healthy diet when your birthday is the day after New Years. And your birthday dinner is the traditional lasagna and chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. And for once no one forgot about it. *insert sigh emoji here*

But on a positive note, for my birthday I did get a punching bag! It even comes with hand wraps and gloves. I’m excited like no man’s business to get it set up somewhere. I want to teach myself kickboxing (and by teach myself I mean watch videos on YouTube) so I have a sport that I can get into that lets me channel my aggressions into something healthy. 

Because it’s hard to look badass while running when you can’t even keep going on the treadmill for long periods at a time and you basically only shuffle there anyways. #still can’t run to save my life

Speaking of running, I saw that there is a color run in March relatively close to where I live. Am I going to be ready in time? HELL NO. But it lets me know there are 5ks close to where I live at other parts of the year. I regret not being able to run the Reindeer Romp in town but if they have another 5k (which I believe they do) I want to be able to do it. Or to be able to do treadmill races. Ultimately I’d like to be able to run modest distances for charities. 

I also cannot wait to get my license so I can drive myself up to my gym before the buttcrack of dawn so I can go to the gym. Now, that realistically means leaving my house by about 5:30 AM. If I do that then I get there at 6, get my hour in and have enough time to rinse off and get to class. Some days I have more leeway as I have a 9 AM or 9:30 AM class as opposed to an 8 AM class. And Wednesday I have a day I can have a lot of wiggle room as I don’t have class until 1:00 PM. Oh yes. That means I can go for long runs, group classes and maybe even yoga.

I hate yoga. 

I don’t think it’s the stretching part that bothers me as I absolutely love stretching and usually can be found in some weird sitting or lying position anyways... I think it’s the slow hippie attitude. And I know that’s for my spirit or whatever. Still, I think I need to get into that part because it will help my anxiety and stress. I just wish it wasn’t so freaking mellow all the time. I mean, don’t tell me to envision gentle streams or something in that weird voice. Tell me to think about some cute motherfucking duckies. In a Samuel L. Jackson voice. And tell me to think they are like Rambo. This would please me as I make myself a human pretzel. 

Also, I’m looking forward to having my license as it gives me a sense of independence. God knows I need it. I won’t be forced to be around the toxicity at home as much and I think it will be good for me. I don’t know if I bring it out in them or if I just react to it and further it, but I truly believe that having to spend less time at home with my grandparents will mean that I am going to start having a lot less stress. And I don’t have to worry about classes running over because the only person who has to wait on me is my own bitch-ass self. It’s extremely liberating. I can go to the library and study or I can go work-out or I can simply go drive myself over to the park and go for a nature run. Realistically, it will most likely be me studying... you know, because I have a fuckton of classes. 

I’m also looking forward to getting to pack all that I need into my bag and taking it with me in my car and leaving what I don’t need at that exact moment in the car. That’s right! If I want to take textbooks with me to study, I will not have to carry around their bulk and then some all day! I can leave them and go get them at a later time! Gone are the days of cramming everything into my backpack and then stuffing my work out clothes in it as well! I can literally have a gym bag set aside so that when it’s time to get in, I’m only carrying what I need. My hype for this shit is unreal, you guys.

After I finish with this post I’ll be writing all my goals and my shopping list down in the planner @shyvalentines gave me for my birthday. Holy crap, y’all! I literally could not have picked out anything better- A schedule portion, a fitness portion, a meal planning portion, an inspiration/diary portion, important info, you name it! AND IT’S SO UNBELIEVABLY CUTE!!!! Like bless me! I’m slightly a bit afraid of writing in it because it’s seriously adorable and my handwriting is literal trash. 

Another shoutout to my friends @brynnabeth and @13friends4ever for being so supportive and sweet. I literally could not ask for better friends than the three people mentioned in my post. All three are some of my closest friends and they all support me and help me in so many ways that just astound me and make me feel so very grateful for them. I go to bed knowing I am blessed because of them, even when my day feels like it is only been filled with pain and anger. 

In conclusion, this is the first post of 2017 and these are my thoughts as I sit shivering on my couch.

TLDR; I am a huge sap with fitness goals and a strange reason to like having a car.

Sincerely,

S.

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Put That In Your Stereotype And Smoke It

The ‘Put That In Your Stereotype And Smoke It’ movement, whilst not quite hitting the mark on snappy and concise names, has made significant waves with its message. This poster campaign that has attached itself to all the popular social media sites and, with the usage of the hashtag #NotJust, has gained substantial traction.

This campaign addresses the tired stereotypes that still bombard women constantly in popular media and discusses the relationship between the two. Instead of agreeing or disagreeing with these views, each poster acknowledges that there is a much more complicated exchange occurring. In contrast to the straightforward (to us) issues faced by the original feminists, such as winning the right to vote, modern post-feminism deals with a lack of black and white social points, such as those illustrated in these posters. This is shown through their hashtag of ‘NotJust’ which is at the forefront of each poster, effectively saying ‘yes, I may be part of this stereotype but it does not define my whole personality.’ The viewer of the poster is encouraged to think more complexly about the impact of stereotypes based around female behaviour and therefore more complexly about women themselves. No one can truly be a stereotype, yet both the news and fictional media has a distressing habit of addressing them as fact.

The poster campaign is a reaction to the prevalence of negative and harmful representations of women within the media. The aim is to encourage women on social media to define themselves apart from one-dimensional representations, declaring they are ‘#NotJust a princess or a mother or a victim’ but a living breathing person that demands to be considered more complexly by the media that is so poorly doing so right now. The posters aim to validate all representations and inspire a greater community between them. There is such prevalence of competition between women in media, showing them in the pursuit of being the best or fighting over male attention and not enough focus on equally celebrating both the differences and similarities between women. This is seen through the positioning of a girly female and a punk butch female next to each other on one of the posters. Both represent their gender differently but they are shown in the poster as both equally valid. These stereotypes are often pitted against each other in media: the girly-girl verses the tom-boy who both hold each other with contempt. This disregard from the constant construction of conflict is why these posters are important and resonating with women on social media. The posters refuse to partake in the culture of ‘othering’.

Another significant part of the campaign is how it addresses the issue of female representation in relation to agency. To me this is particularly powerful as I too resonate with the angry, powerful tone, which states ‘I am not made to fit your ideal, this is not up to you’. In both more trashy news media and wider social media, women are presented over and over again with the opinions of men in relation to what they ‘should’ be doing. Just recently I saw an article from the independent which had the headline of ‘survey asks men’s opinion on what makes the perfect women’, to that I say why are we asking them? When there was a campaign to end the tax on sanitary products news outlets went out to specifically interview men about what they thought, what do they know on this subject that would actually benefit the discussion? Cosmopolitan (to name a well-known culprit but it is still one of a great many magazines that do this) constantly writes articles to the tune of ‘Do X to keep your man happy’. The overall message given to women is that their world revolves around validating and achieving male approval. This is why the strong unapologetic statements throughout the poster campaign are so refreshing. These posters are telling women to not waste their time and energy on approval when they could use their agency to make themselves happy. Women are being encouraged to not be an object to be interacted with by male gaze or opinion but their own entity.

As their own entity, women are being empowered to make their own statements similar to those of the poster campaign with the aforementioned hashtags. This campaign is enabling women to take active steps in subverting representations and also voicing frustrations concerning their gender expectations. My personal contribution to these hashtags would be ‘#NotJust A Porter for Your Emotional Baggage’ as toxic masculinity preventing men from being open about their emotions except to their significant others is a real problem. Society appears to tell men placing all the responsibility of their mental emotional well-being on their wives is perfectly reasonable, instead of having a support system of friends and family. This then extends into popular media as female characters often exist to ‘fix’ male characters, acting as their conscience or having to suffer so the male character can make his own character development. This can be seen in popular US sitcom How I Met Your Mother. The main character, Ted Mosby, has countless girlfriends throughout the nine seasons, many of whom he hurts and lies to. These women are only part of this story as they ‘helped mould’ him into the man he ‘needed to be’ to meet his future wife. Ted justifies his actions towards all these women as his mistreatment of them allows him substantial character development. Despite having two strong female characters, the constant parade of flat-character girlfriends presents women as tools for male emotional development. This representation of women is both damaging to women and men which is why it is important to address. The versatility of these hashtags lends itself to the wide and complex subject manner of post-feminism, they are applicable to any issue a woman could wish to highlight and discuss.

So grab your keyboards and get involved! Tell the world what you are and what you aren’t! Support a positive campaign and get some catharsis out of it too!

[lizzabex]

Put That In Your Stereotype And Smoke It!

The ‘Put That In Your Stereotype And Smoke It’ movement, whilst not quite hitting the mark on snappy and concise names, has made significant waves with its message. This poster campaign that has attached itself to all the popular social media sites and, with the usage of the hashtag #NotJust, has gained substantial traction.

This campaign addresses the tired stereotypes that still bombard women constantly in popular media and discusses the relationship between the two. Instead of agreeing or disagreeing with these views, each poster acknowledges that there is a much more complicated exchange occurring. In contrast to the straightforward (to us) issues faced by the original feminists, such as winning the right to vote, modern post-feminism deals with a lack of black and white social points, such as those illustrated in these posters. This is shown through their hashtag of ‘NotJust’ which is at the forefront of each poster, effectively saying ‘yes, I may be part of this stereotype but it does not define my whole personality.’ The viewer of the poster is encouraged to think more complexly about the impact of stereotypes based around female behaviour and therefore more complexly about women themselves. No one can truly be a stereotype, yet both the news and fictional media has a distressing habit of addressing them as fact.

The poster campaign is a reaction to the prevalence of negative and harmful representations of women within the media. The aim is to encourage women on social media to define themselves apart from one-dimensional representations, declaring they are ‘#NotJust a princess or a mother or a victim’ but a living breathing person that demands to be considered more complexly by the media that is so poorly doing so right now. The posters aim to validate all representations and inspire a greater community between them. There is such prevalence of competition between women in media, showing them in the pursuit of being the best or fighting over male attention and not enough focus on equally celebrating both the differences and similarities between women. This is seen through the positioning of a girly female and a punk butch female next to each other on one of the posters. Both represent their gender differently but they are shown in the poster as both equally valid. These stereotypes are often pitted against each other in media: the girly-girl verses the tom-boy who both hold each other with contempt. This disregard from the constant construction of conflict is why these posters are important and resonating with women on social media. The posters refuse to partake in the culture of ‘othering’.

Another significant part of the campaign is how it addresses the issue of female representation in relation to agency. To me this is particularly powerful as I too resonate with the angry, powerful tone, which states ‘I am not made to fit your ideal, this is not up to you’. In both more trashy news media and wider social media, women are presented over and over again with the opinions of men in relation to what they ‘should’ be doing. Just recently I saw an article from the independent which had the headline of ‘survey asks men’s opinion on what makes the perfect women’, to that I say why are we asking them? When there was a campaign to end the tax on sanitary products news outlets went out to specifically interview men about what they thought, what do they know on this subject that would actually benefit the discussion? Cosmopolitan (to name a well-known culprit but it is still one of a great many magazines that do this) constantly writes articles to the tune of ‘Do X to keep your man happy’. The overall message given to women is that their world revolves around validating and achieving male approval. This is why the strong unapologetic statements throughout the poster campaign are so refreshing. These posters are telling women to not waste their time and energy on approval when they could use their agency to make themselves happy. Women are being encouraged to not be an object to be interacted with by male gaze or opinion but their own entity.

As their own entity, women are being empowered to make their own statements similar to those of the poster campaign with the aforementioned hashtags. This campaign is enabling women to take active steps in subverting representations and also voicing frustrations concerning their gender expectations. My personal contribution to these hashtags would be ‘#NotJust A Porter for Your Emotional Baggage’ as toxic masculinity preventing men from being open about their emotions except to their significant others is a real problem. Society appears to tell men placing all the responsibility of their mental emotional well-being on their wives is perfectly reasonable, instead of having a support system of friends and family. This then extends into popular media as female characters often exist to ‘fix’ male characters, acting as their conscience or having to suffer so the male character can make his own character development. This can be seen in popular US sitcom How I Met Your Mother. The main character, Ted Mosby, has countless girlfriends throughout the nine seasons, many of whom he hurts and lies to. These women are only part of this story as they ‘helped mould’ him into the man he ‘needed to be’ to meet his future wife. Ted justifies his actions towards all these women as his mistreatment of them allows him substantial character development. Despite having two strong female characters, the constant parade of flat-character girlfriends presents women as tools for male emotional development. This representation of women is both damaging to women and men which is why it is important to address. The versatility of these hashtags lends itself to the wide and complex subject manner of post-feminism, they are applicable to any issue a woman could wish to highlight and discuss.

So grab your keyboards and get involved! Tell the world what you are and what you aren’t! Support a positive campaign and get some catharsis out of it too!

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