#stop prejudice

[tobeabatman]

”Being fat isn’t a choice but help is available” or something like that was said on an ad on television today.

The mood of the ad was somber as if fatness is a disease that could kill you at any moment. the ad also showed the fat woman’s partner and their kid, as if to say ”hey, by being fat you put down your whole family because you could die at any moment and leave them alone on this earth”.

I have no idea what the ad is actually advertising besides a website on weight-loss. They might be advertising some pills or surgery or something through their website, but I refuse to click on their website to give them ad revenue.

But the point is, that’s very harmful, right? Depicting fatness as a disease that will kill you at any moment. That’s literally not true or based on any research on fat people, no research says most fat people will drop dead suddenly or super early in their lives. The worst estimate I’ve seen has been that ”morbidly obese” people die like, I don’t remember exactly what the number was, but it was somewhere between 12-14 years earlier than the avarage. And that’s the WORST estimate I’ve seen. Other estimates I’ve seen have been about 4 years for other non-”morbidly obese” fat people. Meanwhile for overweight people (I hate that word but it is what research uses) there are a lot of studies where the results show ”overweight” individuals actually live longer than the avarage.

And also, it’s such bs to pretend like you care about fat people and then market us some kind of a solution. ”Help is available” for what? A f*cking type of body? My f*cking body?

It just screams of trying to act sympathetic towards us fat people but still trying to get us to completely change our body as if our bodies were the same thing as a f*cking addiction that we could get rid of without literally changing the way our bodies look drastically.

Pretending to be sympathetic for fat people while offering us a ”solution” is bs. It’s unethical. And it scares me that this is the first time in my life that I’m seeing anti-fatness ads, while people’s attitudes towards fat people are constantly getting worse. Wake up people.

[eclectic-ways]

“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”

-Arthur Schopenhauer

[la-niolue]

“She,” Angua corrected. “This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We’ve got extra pronouns here.”

She could smell his bewilderment. Of course, everyone knew that, somewhere down under all those layers of leather and chain mail, dwarfs came in enough different types to ensure the future production of more dwarfs, but it was not a subject that dwarfs discussed other than at those essential points in a courtship when embarrassment might otherwise arise.

“Well, I would have thought she’d have the decency to keep it to herself,” Carrot said finally. “I mean, I’ve nothing against females. I’m pretty certain my stepmother is one. But I don’t think it’s very clever, you know, to go around drawing attention to the fact.”

“Carrot, I think you’ve got something wrong with your head,” said Angua.

“What?”

“I think you may have got it stuck up your bum."

Feet Of Clay

Honestly I love that Carrot's the one who doesn't immediately accept Cheery. Carrot is undoubtedly a good guy, and we know he does accept her later, so this really illustrate how pervasive prejudice can be.

I mean, Carrot is the one who accepts everyone, he's good and nice and open-minded. But he is a dwarf, and was raised with their traditional values that a dwarf isn't female. And so he is unconsciously prejudiced.

Like he says : he got nothing against it, per se, he knows some female you know, it's just that it's not done, see, it's wrong.

And that's a very common attitude in real life, when people have prejudice that they don't even realise are prejudice, because they grew up with them and never thought to question them. So of course that's not racist or transphobic or whatever, it's just common sense/how the world works.

So it's very nice to see that attitude being called out, because Carrot isn't being overly rude or insulting, and he even respected Cherry's pronouns when answering... But it's not much better and he's still wrong.

And also we know from later books that he does learn better! He got called out on his bullshit and he listened! And he got over his prejudice!

And so can we. I think most everyone grew up learning some bullshit ideas. And we're not automatically bad people for integrating them, we can't know what we don't know and blinkers are hard to get rid of. But we need to at least try to think critically about what we learn and more importantly, we need to listen when someone tell us we're full of shit.

[your-local-aaa-battery]

My heart is broken for Ryan Gainer. No one deserves to die simply for being black and autistic. We must fight for the rights of all autistics, because no one will do it for us.

It is so close to autism awareness month, and my heart hurts knowing just how many people face the same discrimination for simply having a disability and being a POC.

I urge everyone to share and reblog as many posts as they can. Get the internet’s attention! Because we need everyone if we are going to continue the fight for justice for Ryan Gainer.

Rest in Power, Ryan Gainer

[bostonwalks]

True Ethnic Cleansing

[reginademonae]

I have noticed that when I say I worship demons and Satan and I am a demonolatress, many people are prejudiced and they think demons are evil spirits. I don't know if it also happens in the communities in your countries but I experience the Italian community. In the Italian community, there is a very negative judgment towards those who worship Satan and demons. It is very difficult to find someone to have a healthy confrontation with because sooner or later that person will say something wrong about my worship or my deities. No matter how much work practitioners do to eliminate prejudice, they will always be there.

[jimbenton]

[chaoticmacademia]

A Romeo and Juliett production, but it's about a trans girl desperately trying despite her family's disapproval to become from Romeo into Juliett

"Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retain that dear perfection which he owns"