When someone deserves derision but you don't want to sling collateral damage at innocent bystanders, just tell them that they...

...are a waste of the oxygen in their lungs

...are the most regrettable assemblage of molecules in the Universe

...are the human equivalent of wet socks

...are a disgrace to the stars that created the carbon in their cells

...have an opinion as useful and as insightful as a sack full of farts

... have less Moral Integrity than a Lifetime Movie Villain

Be Insulting, Not Bigoted 💖

hi ! you ! please don't blame yourself for the secondary effects of your disability. the weight changes are not your fault. the muscle atrophy is not your fault. the malnutrition is not your fault. the new/worsening mental health condition is not your fault. the low hygiene is not your fault. none of it is your fault!

are there areas of your self care that need improvement? of course, that's true for everyone! but it's hard to be kinder to yourself when you're disabled. sometimes we downright can't do things because of our disabilities. and it all snowballs and self perpetuates. that's not a moral failing - that's scary and difficult to go through!

you don't deserve blame, ridicule, or hatred. you just have limits. you just need support. and that's, morally, neutral. it's okay. you're not doing anything wrong, and i hope things get easier soon. give yourself a little more grace, okay?

Ik in fat acceptance I see a lot of "most fat people don't eat any more than a thin person! Stop assuming every fat person eats too much!" and like.... okay and I agree with that.... but some people who are fat DO need a supernormal amount of calories to function. I'm one of them where if I tried to adhere to just 2200 calories a day my body would probably begin shutting down like an anorexic's. Some thin people need a large caloric intake to function as well and they get praised for how much they eat. Whereas a fat person can't even talk about eating a lot and how it shouldn't be stigmatized without getting either insulted or told to "stop spreading stereotypes." SOME PEOPLE NEED TO EAT A LOT TO MAINTAIN A HEALTHY BODY. SOMETIMES THOSE PEOPLE WILL BE FAT. YOU GOTTA ACCEPT THAT

reminder that being normal about fat people also includes being normal about people that are different than what YOU deem as “acceptable”. unhealthy/disabled fat people, superfat and infinifat people, etc

Anyone else find it very interesting how all the fat characters in Viv's work (Mammon, Mimzy, and Adam) are just one-dimensional assholes that the audience is supposed to hate? Ya, me too.

"BUt iT's hElL-" SO? That does not change the fact that all of Viv's fat or chubby characters are still one-dimensional antagonists that the audience is meant to hate, meanwhile, the non-fat characters are protagonists that the audience is meant to like (Also one of them Adam, is literally in Heaven lmao). "But there are non-fat characters that are antagonists!", why yes, there are non-fat characters in Viv's works that are antagonists....but there's also no fat characters in Viv's work that aren't one-dimensional assholes.

If Viv's skinny ass characters can be both good and bad, why can't Viv do the same for her fat ones? Why can the fat characters ONLY be bad while the skinny ones can be both good or bad? This is just fataphobia, plain and simple, and this comes from someone who's skinny af.

Don't bully fat people period, and fat isn't an indicator of health, and health isn't an indicator of worth, and not all bodies are capable of being healthy, and not every body is capable of thinness and that's okay.

But I literally don't understand hating fat people at a gym. How else are they supposed to lose weight and be healthy? You want them to be thin. Best chance of that happening is at a gym.

They pay their membership just like everyone else. Also if you're able to get distracted by a fat person literally existing maybe you're not focusing on your own exercise enough?

Because when I work out (even though my exercises are fairly small comparatively) I focus on the muscles I'm trying to work on because that gets me the best workout.

And if you're being distracted by fat people existing, guess what you're not focusing on? You're gonna fucking hurt yourself like that.

-fae

A very powerful and intelligent way of representing Yemanja. We learn very early on from the mythology of the Greek gods true "designed" bodies.

I also see it as an anti-fatphobia fight, since, yes, this fat black woman is a beautiful mermaid.

Good news! If you're corporeal, and it's currently summertime, then you already have a

✨ Summer Body ✨

You don't need to build one. Frankenstein got in a lot of trouble for that, don't make his mistakes.

Being weird about fat characters isnt progressive, stop immediately calling them soft, mom like, saying they look like they'd give good hugs??? Devoid of any attention to their actual personality traits, this is dehumanizing and infantilizing

me being f4tphobic towards myself but hating when anyone else is mean to people or themselves for their weight

according to the medical industry, i'm morbidly obese, also known as class III obesity - the second highest stage of obesity, apparently. meanwhile, in terms of the Fat Spectrum (which is based on literal body size relative to accessibility/ableism), i'm only in the cusp between small and mid fat. above me, there are those firmly in mid fat, and then there's large fat and infinifat/super fat; there's also death fat, which is for anyone who wants to reclaim the categorization of morbidity.

i point this out because the medical industry, and society at large, has such a skewed and dehumanizing view of fat bodies. even the smallest of us are too much, and that sense of existing in wrongness and excess only gets worse the more fat you are. and i feel like straight size people have this idea that body fat is an accessory - that it can be taken on and off at will, and that fat people are simply choosing to have too much - that we're greedy and gluttonous because of it.

but in reality, body fat is a part of the human body. it comes in varying amounts in everyone, and that amount changes throughout our lives, throughout health and ability. and being part of the human body, our fat is us. by asking us to lose weight, become smaller, more palatable, you are asking us to change who we are. to literally take on a new face, because our face - the very thing most attach to our identity as a unique sign of us - is too much. can you imagine how heartbreaking that might be?

this idea of excess is similar for those who use mobility aids, and all of this a reminder that fatphobia is ableism - neither of which are ever okay or good or helpful or righteous. health and size are not indicators of morality and worth, and they certainly don't decide whether we deserve autonomy, healthcare, or access to life.

Let me be clear about something, treating fat people badly is disgusting. You shouldn't treat anyone badly, and no one should feel unwelcome in places, especially common places like the gym where people feel unwelcome or unsafe, everyone has a place there.

However, expecting society to conform to you, isn't something that anyone should expect.

You will not fit in every clothing brand. I am a small person, and often I can't find clothes small enough to fit me due to things like inconsistent sizing. Often stores will carry up to a 3X and will not carry a size smaller than a S or XS, and I simply can't fit in the clothing item, which sucks, but then I go find somewhere else.

Not every place will cater to you, and that's okay.

Different things are meant for different people, and that doesn't make it fat-phobia, and I can hold this belief while still believing that of course fat people shouldn't be harassed because no one should. Those beliefs can coexist and it is ridiculous and manipulative to present the idea that they can't.

I don't understand how people can be pro-choice and act like queer allies and then turn around and be fatphobic. like, bodily autonomy is great until a person's overweight. and I know if this post gets any traction, people are gonna whine about health, and you know what, fuck that. if fatphobes cared about health at all, they'd be fighting for better health care and services for people with disabilities instead of acting like fat people are destroying society, not to mention trying to help people in poverty so poor kids can access better nutrition.

and, no, don't say, "well as long as they're eating right and exercising, their weight doesn't matter." that's bullshit. sorry to challenge your delicate sensibilities, but this line of thinking is fatphobic. you should no more be policing a person's diet and habits than you should be policing a person's genitals.

and, actually, sometimes weight isn't a choice, anyway. different medicines can influence a person's weight just like illnesses like hypothyroidism, depression, insomnia, addiction, etc., but that shouldn't even matter because weight is an incredibly personal thing that no one should have a say over except yourself.

the thing is that viv is blatantly lying about mimzy being a chicken- because while a lot of people say she sucks at designing so bad they could believe it, someone else here on the critical tag has a post that talks about it and has a screenshot from the pilot where mimzy is literally next to a chicken demon with a beak and feathers. she is trying to save her face so bad it's sad. even then- always listen to jewish voices. if jewish people say something is antisemitic- it is. same for racism & queerphobia. but its viv so she'll make up another thousand excuses to save herself from being held accountable sadly.

Honestly, it feels like Viv either designed Mimzy around being Jewish and panicked after people were calling her out or she just. Forgot to make Mimzy specifically look like a chicken for...some reason.

....wait, is the chicken demon that Mimzy was right next to skinny? Because if so then...ya...

Hey does anyone else remember when Ariana Grande licked a donut and said she hated America only to deflect and say that she actually meant that she hates fat kids childhood o*esity? Because I do