#sizism

[citizenshipandsocialjustice]

Start Reading From The First YA Novel About A Plus-Size Superhero

For Julie Murphy, author of Dumplin', centering fat girls in her stories never felt revolutionary. After all, fat girls and women have exist

[mojoflower]

FAT =

I was just thinking about my best friend (the aforementioned ‘friend Domme’) and thought I should say, one of the things I love about her is her size.  I hesitate to say fat, because of all the shaming connotations.  But she is soft, and large, and I love that.

I love that she’s cuddly.  

I love that she has presence:  no wind will blow her away, and no disdain will shrivel her.  I am 6″ taller and slim -- but she has a much more profound impact on gravity.

I always feel safe with my friend, and part of that is her weight.  We should give that feeling of safety and refuge more cultural credence, I think.

[gloriousfatpoc]

Pretty bad when sizism and fat hate even dictates your burial.

A “healthy weight of fewer than 200 lbs before cremation” JFC this hurts bad enough without this nonsense. 

-M

DON’T REBLOG IF YOUR GONNA BE A BUTTHOLE! 

[glassheartedboy]

Healthy

Fish is healthy Salad is healthy Not wanting to cry when you see your reflection in the mirror is very healthy And perhaps this comes from a place of good-natured concern But I do not recall such worry Back when it was bad When I was the picture of a boy Disappearing In three acts, no intermission That you had been sold tickets to Without reading the playbook Or knowing what you were watching When you prodded at the vertebrae protruding from my spine And commented on how “skinny I’d gotten” As if it was a good thing As if it was healthy How I made myself small

@glassheartedboy

[annerb-fic]

I love a good Dudley Dursley redemption fic as much as anyone. But please, when you are writing about whatever events or personal experiences lead to Dudley changing, think twice about highlighting weight loss as one of them. I have read too many fics where Dudley losing weight IS the impetus for his values and worldview changing. You are perpetuating a hurtful and biased stereotype aligning morality and goodness with thinness--something that is horribly endemic in far too many places today.

Let Dudley Dursley have his redemption arc if you like. But please remember that he can be morally good and fat. He can be repentant and fat. He can become Harry’s family and be fat. He can have a wife or husband and children and be fat. He can be lovable and human and be fat. He can hang around wizards and be okay with magic and be fat. He can have a redemption arc and be fat. To frame it otherwise, intentional or not, seems to suggest that he cannot.

[quality-street-rat]

Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

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.

To quote Sesame Street:

Some friends are fat and like it like that. 

[annerb-fic]

Hey so I really love your Slytherin Ginny and your fanfics in general and I just found out the you had a Tumblr, so I started going through your posts and I saw your post about Dudley and I honestly can't agree more it really gets on my nerves when they have Dudley explain how he's a good person and then he mentions losing weight it makes me want to pull my hair out... Do you have any dudleDfics to recommend because anything you think is good is definitely going to be well written

(Post anon is referencing is here.)

So I got this ask and was immediately like, oh, awesome! I’ll make a whole list. Because I’ve read so many Dudley redemption fics, because I will read anyone a come across. I’m crap at bookmarking and tracking stuff like that though, so I started going back through and realized I am not sure I know a SINGLE ONE that doesn’t in some form mention Dudley’s weight. Like, some otherwise quite nice fics have a whole thing about exactly how he lost weight. I think there may have been a fic about Harry getting asked my McGonagall (?) to go deliver a Hogwarts letter to Dudley’s kid, and Dudley and his husband are there and they kind of integrate themselves into Harry and Ginny’s life pretty quickly maybe? I can’t find that one, if anyone knows. So I can’t double check if there is any mention of weight loss.

I do know that I quite enjoyed Waste of Space by bluehat, though one of the first lines is: Although he had lost a few pounds since his school days, he was still much more like his father in appearance than his stick-thin mother. I don’t remember it lingering over much on the topic anywhere else. But I do wish it wasn’t there.

Here’s another good one:

Dudley Dursley’s Most Unexpectedly Fortunate Flower by aTasteofCaramellDudley Dursley is leading a perfectly normal life, his contact with his odd cousin limited to Christmas cards and peculiar memories. Until his daughter sneezes and sets the curtains on fire.

Anyone else have any Dudley recs?

[icesceam]

And while Im on the topic, I’ve noticed that “curvy” and “slim thick” women love to talk about how oppressed they are because of their bodies, especially when actual fat women mention their struggles/lack if acceptance in society. Like they sometimes act like their bodies arent still accepted in society, really now more than ever since there is currently a pressure/trend for women to be “thick”. Like no I’m sorry that I don’t sympathize with you and your slim waist, size 6 body, I’m saving my sympathies for the size 26 woman who literally can’t shop at stores and gets verbally and even physically abused for just existing. And quite honestly, even when there was a bigger pressure to be thin, generally, slim women with big asses/thick women were still not in any way oppressed. Making a comparison between being not skinny and being actually fat is such a gross fallacy.