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call him bubonic the way he plagues me
blorbonic plague
We don’t talk enough about the systemic health effects of casual fatphobia and how much they fucking skew the data to the point where we literally cannot know how much outcomes are actually related to fatness and how much they are related to society not being designed for fat people, like literal design.
My best friend cannot find a bra.
She’s fat. We won’t get into the ~why~ here because it honestly wouldn’t matter whether it was “all her fault” or whether it was a result of outside forces like genes and such, she still deserves a goddamn fucking bra that fits.
And she cannot find a bra.
She’s short and fat, and Fat Bras are usually full cup, but because she’s short the full cups are usually too tall, or the armbands around them are too tall, to the point where what’ll fit around her chest and over her boobs will also dig up into her arms or have such high coverage that she literally cannot wear a shirt with a neckline high enough. Any bra that goes out enough goes too high.
This affects her ability to find clothing, impacting her ability to go outside sometimes, because she has this tiny selection of bras and she constantly has to wash them and when they’re gone she has no idea when she’ll next be able to find another unicorn bra. They appear in a flash usually in startups that die soon after, and COVID has killed most the small businesses remaining where she had even a hint of a chance of finding a fitting bra.
So she wears bras that don’t fit. Or she doesn’t leave the house. One gives her back pain. The other is, obviously, not very active. She likes to be active.
If she brings it up, people suggest breast reduction surgery.
But the thing is, with a good bra, she does not get back pain.
But if it’s that hard to find a good bra, they say, wouldn’t a reduction just be easier?
Wouldn’t it be easier for you to chop off part of your flesh, they say, then for us to cut fabric and underwire to more sizes? As if that is normal. As if that isn’t horrifying.
It’s not just bras. It’s chairs. It’s benches. It’s goddamn shoes. It’s seatbelts. It’s exercise equipment - I just got an exercise bike for Christmas. I had to shop around to find an affordable one that was also rated to take my level of fat. If I were 100 pounds heavier, which some people are? I don’t think any equipment would have existed in a price range that any working person could expect to afford. I don’t think most people even look at the weight ratings on chairs and couches and furniture. Once you start? They are lower than you think. There are absolutely 100% people you love in your life - whether really tall men or just average kinda overweight fat people - who should not be using the things they are using. Who are not getting support from their mattress, their footwear, their office chair. It might be you! You might be thinking “but I am average size!”, but the amount of furniture out there that’s only weighted to about 200lbs? Or 175??? It’s SO MUCH MORE THAN YOU REALIZE. Get into the Proper Fat? The 350lb, 400lb, 500lb fat? There’s virtually nothing.
Seatbelts are not tested for fat bodies and seatbelt extenders aren’t regulated.
We know about the problems with too small a blood pressure cuff. With too low a medicine dose. With no MRI a really fat body can fit in for a thousand miles.
We know, from multiple studies on multiple oppressed communities, that social bias by itself, with zero other compounding factors, can give people worse health outcomes.
Now add up
+ one of the social biases with the least pushback even from the educated liberal set with
+ having a world that is literally not made for you. Where you cannot get clothes, furniture, or transportation in a way that will actually accommodate you,
+ where society is constantly blaming you for this. And even if you somehow (and if you know how, please tell me) manage to retain some sense of self worth and optimism and determination despite all that
+ that’s not gonna magically give you access to the daily supplies a person needs in their home and out in public that’ll make living safe and healthy life literally physically possible.
If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health start a bra company. If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health mandate changes to seatbelt requirements. If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health have a variety of chairs in your waiting room with at least some being properly Fat Rated. If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health, make it easier for fat people to be active by making exercise equipment that fits them, swimwear that’ll actually stay on them, athletic shoes that can bear them. If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health ask they be included in more medical trials. If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health, promote fat visibility and fat people loving their bodies - because hating yourself has literally never been good for anyone’s health.
If you’re using “concern for health” as a shield to allow you to judge and criticize strangers, you don’t give a fuck about anyone’s health. You’re just an asshole who prefers a veneer of respectability when you bully people. You’re hateful and we can see right through you.
But fatphobia isn’t just bullying. It isn’t just judgment from strangers. It isn’t just medical neglect and medical bias. Even if we could wave a wand and make all that go away, my best friend still wouldn’t have a bra that fits, people still wouldn’t have a chair that supports them, a seatbelt that protects them. It’s literally engineered in. And it slowly kills people day by day by day.
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This post today is more than twice as old as Tumblr itself was when this post was originally made.
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“Haven’t seen you in awhile, what you been up to?”
me:
Accidentally wound up on "hear me out cake" tiktok, and I swear, if another one of these bitches puts down an at-most-unconventionally-attractive human man, Lady Dimitrescu or Nick Wilde/Robin Hood I am going to lose my fucking mind.
Saw one where the first person they named was Disney's Aladdin and I tapped out so hard I entered a fugue state and didn't regain full consciousness for like a solid hour.
Girlies giggling and gasping because they said their 'hear me out' was Gill from Finding Nemo, like
I'm so sorry, babygirl, but that's a hot fish. I know you thought you were being so controversial, but that is one of the most fuckable cartoon fish in existence. This is weaksauce.
remember: if the pilot doesnt get picked up by a network, if nobody buys the bandcamp albums, if nobody buys the merch, homestuck will be broke for another decade and hiveswap will Still be made on a minimum wage budget every five years at minimum. if we want more homestuck theyre going to need money to make it!!! everybody says “go indie” but nobody wants to pay those indies to get it done! we have to make these changes as the consumers! this art deserves to be made even if you dont personally like it!!!
when an indie project has a kickstarter, or any other kind of funding process, that money goes to paying wages to the devs and artists and writers who are making that project, so they can afford to eat and pay rent while working on the game. when kickstarter money gets stolen, for example, those devs are then beholden to making a game for people who paid for it WITHOUT receiving the wages to do it. repeat this for three acts and ten years. whether you like the pilot or not, its in all of our best interests for it to succeed and get picked up! every artist, writer, and musician whos ever worked on homestuck deserves to be fairly compensated for their work, past and present. we’re entering into an era where this may be finally possible! it is our duty to support it!!
“I am looking respectfully” “im so normal about this” can you bark actually? Can you hit yourself over the head w a frying pan like a cartoon wolf? Can you look at it derangedly please?
>> Let me tell you about Homestuck! (The Pilot™)
THE HOMESTUCK ANIMATED PILOT IS LIVE NOW!
If you enjoyed the pilot, consider supporting the merch! https://homestuck.store. Merch performance is the #1 thing that will help the show get greenlit!
remember: if the pilot doesnt get picked up by a network, if nobody buys the bandcamp albums, if nobody buys the merch, homestuck will be broke for another decade and hiveswap will Still be made on a minimum wage budget every five years at minimum. if we want more homestuck theyre going to need money to make it!!! everybody says “go indie” but nobody wants to pay those indies to get it done! we have to make these changes as the consumers! this art deserves to be made even if you dont personally like it!!!
remember: if the pilot doesnt get picked up by a network, if nobody buys the bandcamp albums, if nobody buys the merch, homestuck will be broke for another decade and hiveswap will Still be made on a minimum wage budget every five years at minimum. if we want more homestuck theyre going to need money to make it!!! everybody says “go indie” but nobody wants to pay those indies to get it done! we have to make these changes as the consumers! this art deserves to be made even if you dont personally like it!!!
hey in case you didn't know trans inclusive terminology in healthcare is not about protecting peoples feelings, it's to stop insurance companies from going "well it says here that hysterectomies are a procedure performed on WOMEN and you keep insisting that you're a MAN so we do not in fact have to cover that have a nice day and eat shit"
It also exists so that if, say, you have a situation with an underdeveloped, nearly nonexistent uterus but also an ovary that has a giant cyst, nobody can say, "You have an intersex condition so you are not technically a woman and we can't cover ovarian surgery for not-a-woman, happy peritonitis to you when that sucker explodes lol"
#okay what drives me crazy is i dont understand the point of being like. no u cant have that procedure bc it doesnt match hte gender#okay. so like. what does the insurance company think u are doing then#going to get a pap smear for fun ?????????????#LIKE. OKAY IF IT WASNT PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE I DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT DO THEY THINK PPL ARE DOING#I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY IS IT BEING DENIED LIKE.....#you cant get this medical care covered bc it doesnt match the gender on ur file. okay so they only do the claims after the care has happene#so what did they think u did. just went and showed up to gynecology appt and got my balls fondled and ask for it to be charged as pap smear#LIKE I REALLY JUST DONT UNDERSTAND WHY DO THEY THINK THE DOCTORS ARE PROVIDING IRRELEVANT CARE#anyway im still mad rn bc im sitting here waiting for my insurance to say its okay for me to get T lmaoooo#me: i want T. my dr: okay yea u have gender dysphoria lets get u this T. insurance: ISNT THERE SOMEONE U FORGOT TO ASK
It's denied because the less care they provide the more money they make. It's not that they don't think you need it. It's that they don't want to pay for it and gendered language in medical care gives them a paperwork loophole.
It's the same as the same sex marriage debate. Letting people get married regardless of sex or gender wasn't about protecting their feelings, it was practical, to ensure their rights and autonomy, and insisting that it be "marriage" and not a "civil partnership" was for the exact same reason It wasn't to make people feel as special and legitimate as the straights or whatever, it was because if you make it a different category then you leave the opportunity for rights to be taken away, for insurance companies to make different rules, for corporations and employers to cheat people; you leave paperwork loopholes.
Devastating to have more evidence that done IS better than perfect
Additionally, findings indicate that the act of doing shows you that you were not seeking perfection, you were fearing inadequacy
@grey-and-lavender
#oh that last line gutted me #is there a place between perfect and failure?
Good news! There is!
Bad news! It is called 'done'
✨ fuck ✨
To those of you that fear recovery because you’ve become so comfortable with your suffering:
You don’t notice it leave. It goes away slowly and you don’t even notice it’s gone until youre happy and content.
You won’t miss it. It won’t hurt. You won’t be empty. I promise it will be so much better than your head tells you.
To those who worry you won’t be “you” anymore: You’ll be different, yes, but it’s a process of growing into the best version of yourself. You’ll stumble sometimes simply because some habit you developed to cope is now out of place, but you’ll be so much more able to pick yourself up again. And you will be who you were meant to be, without the distortion caused by illness. Be prepared for some grief for your old life, but don’t let that make you afraid to embrace the new one.
That voice that’s telling you to not get help, not take meds, to keep to yourself or it might change you? That’s a symptom. The depression doesn’t want you to get rid of it, and it’s lying to you to stop you from doing it.
Don’t listen.
I was so scared of recovery but I didn’t even notice I was recovering until I looked back and realized how much more comfortable I was