annieelainey:

“Health concerns” about fat grind my gears, man. I am growling right now and clapping on my words.

You cannot tell what someone’s lifestyle is by their body!!!!

You can be fat and work out every day, have a healthy balanced diet and it’s just the way your body is. Why are so many people willing to accept the fact that a thin person can be lazy, eat junk food all the time and still be thin but not the other way around?

Would you like to know why? It’s the subconscious fatphobia that is taught to us every single day! From sitcoms (“no fat chicks need apply”) to weight-loss ads that shame fat people (“does your fat make you look like THIS?”) and teach that losing weight is equivalent to gaining health (“lose weight and get healthy”)

No, man. Wrong. Nutritional healthy diets and exercise can result in weight loss, but it doesn’t always. Health looks different on every body.

All that aside, if she were sick, how does that justify comments like “there is nothing attractive about obesity”, would you say that about someone who had any other illness such as cancer, AIDS, etc? If you want to criticize someone for being “dangerously fat” to the point that you “fear for their health”, realize that you are criticizing someone for being sick! How is that in anyway okay?!

Health concern trolling, you are in the wrong no matter what.

You cannot diagnose someone by looking at them and someone’s health is none of your business.

EDIT: This goes both ways, like this week when someone was “concerned” for my friend because she is bony. That is her body! That’s the way it is! She shouldn’t feel ashamed and she shouldn’t have to change just for YOU think she is healthy.

THIS, guys.

do you really think that no one else likes or would ever like your face? i feel like if you really believe that, it would be impossible not to internalize that feeling and not like it yourself, creating a cycle?

I’m new to liking my face, after learning very slowly that there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. But that’s because I learnt to take a few seconds to think about things. I feel like people’s kneejerk reaction to my face would be ‘not very pretty’ and a lot of people don’t re-think their first thoughts and why they’re thinking them.  

EDIT: But a lot of people have said they like my face and think I’m attractive and pretty which shows that it really is subjective.  I think a lot of people really do genuinely and honestly subscribe to the standards of beauty through fear and I worry that people who are otherwise good people are scared too.

Okay so the movement for body acceptance is quite substantial but what I’d really like to see is face acceptance.  I feel like the only good faces are symmetrical, clear-skinned, big-eyed, button-nosed, high-cheekboned white faces and that even though I like my face no one else ever will.  Even body acceptance posts show pictures of people with really conventional faces.  Can we just promote that attractiveness is really subjective; there’s not one type of face that is universally appealing (no matter what ‘scientific’ studies say, there’s really not, okay?), and that the lack of facial variety in the media is bland and damaging?

As someone who is two stone underweight and has suffered all her life for it I’m massively upset by this idea.