queensassyofthefatties:

Fat Positive Blogs that are focused around men;

chubbyguyswag

fyeahchubbyguys

fuckyeahchubbyguysofcolor

men-in-full

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fuckyeahhardfemme: purrversatility: While talking about female weightlifters, though, I wanna bring up Holley Mangold. Holley Mangold, who was not being buzzed about as “the internet’s new crush” like the “adorable” Samantha Wright is. Nor did she get asked to do a sexy Olympic spread like other Olympians in 2012.No, she got made fun of for her size by Conan O’ Brian, and a lot of people laughed. Which sucked.  Holley Mangold, you’re one hell of a hard femme too. I salute you. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS
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fuckyeahhardfemme:

purrversatility:

While talking about female weightlifters, though, I wanna bring up Holley Mangold.

Holley Mangold, who was not being buzzed about as “the internet’s new crush” like the “adorable” Samantha Wright is. Nor did she get asked to do a sexy Olympic spread like other Olympians in 2012.

No, she got made fun of for her size by Conan O’ Brian, and a lot of people laughed. Which sucked. 

Holley Mangold, you’re one hell of a hard femme too. I salute you.

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i am concerned about the intellectual health of fatphobes.

They spend all their time consuming ObesityEpidemic™-flavoured junk science. They’re clearly lazy, not bothering to put in any effort to do any research that might actually challenge their poor intellectual health. It’s not like there aren’t many opportunities to improve this health if they really wanted to; not only are there lots of Health At Every Size and Fat Acceptance activists around, but they could make use of the Internet and World Wide Web to find information that would improve their intellectual fitness.

But no, that would be too much work. They would rather just take the lazy option, and consume the fatphobia of the mainstream media, and its violent propaganda about the ‘need’ for a WarOnObesity™. Apparently it’s too much effort for them to turn off the television and visit a local library to read some critical commentary about the highly processed information they’re being provided with - information that’s so highly processed, it’s often almost devoid of intellectual nutritional value.

(read more! …by flexibeast)

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Real Women by Hanne Blank

thefatgrackle:

Excuse me while I throw this down, I’m old and cranky and tired of hearing the idiocy repeated by people who ought to know better.

Real women do not have curves.   Real women do not look like just one thing.

Real women have curves, and not.   They are tall, and not.  They are brown-skinned, and olive-skinned, and not.  They have small breasts, and big ones, and no breasts whatsoever.

Real women start their lives as baby girls.  And as baby boys.  And as babies of indeterminate biological sex whose bodies terrify their doctors and families into making all kinds of very sudden decisions.

Real women have big hands and small hands and long elegant fingers and short stubby fingers and manicures and broken nails with dirt under them.

Real women have armpit hair and leg hair and pubic hair and facial hair and chest hair and sexy moustaches and full, luxuriant beards.  Real women have none of these things, spontaneously or as the result of intentional change.  Real women are bald as eggs, by chance and by choice and by chemo.  Real women have hair so long they can sit on it.  Real women wear wigs and weaves and extensions and kufi and do-rags and hairnets and hijab and headscarves and hats and yarmulkes and textured rubber swim caps with the plastic flowers on the sides.

Real women wear high heels and skirts.  Or not.

Real women are feminine and smell good and they are masculine and smell good and they are androgynous and smell good, except when they don’t smell so good, but that can be changed if desired because real women change stuff when they want to.

Real women have ovaries.  Unless they don’t, and sometimes they don’t because they were born that way and sometimes they don’t because they had to have their ovaries removed.  Real women have uteruses, unless they don’t, see above.  Real women have vaginas and clitorises and XX sex chromosomes and high estrogen levels, they ovulate and menstruate and can get pregnant and have babies. Except sometimes not, for a rather spectacular array of reasons both spontaneous and induced.

Real women are fat.  And thin.  And both, and neither, and otherwise.  Doesn’t make them any less real.

There is a phrase I wish I could engrave upon the hearts of every single person, everywhere in the world, and it is this sentence which comes from the genius lips of the grand and eloquent Mr. Glenn Marla:

There is no wrong way to have a body.

I’m going to say it again because it’s important: There is no wrong way to have a body.

And if your moral compass points in any way, shape, or form to equality, you need to get this through your thick skull and stop with the “real women are like such-and-so” crap.

You are not the authority on what “real” human beings are, and who qualifies as “real” and on what basis.  All human beings are real.

Yes, I know you’re tired of feeling disenfranchised.  It is a tiresome and loathsome thing to be and to feel.  But the tit-for-tat disenfranchisement of others is not going to solve that problem.  Solidarity has to start somewhere and it might as well be with you and me.

Source:http://www.hanneblank.com/blog/2011/06/23/real-women/

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Q:On the process of looking for pro-ana videos, I came across yours. I listened to what you had to say, &just looked through your blog. I want to say thank you. Hopefully I will stay strong, and postive.

societykilledchildhood

you’re welcome, honey! i’m so glad they helped you. i believe you can do it and i’m so proud of you for working on being healthy!

be kind to yourself and stay strong <3