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Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is bad and and other is good, those with “good” bodies constantly fear that their bodies will go “bad”, and those with “bad” bodies are expected feel shame and do everything they can to have “good” bodies. In the process, we torture our bodies, and do everything from engage in disordered eating to invasive surgery to make ourselves okay. Nobody wins in this kind of struggle.

Golda Poretsky (via lovethyfatness)

Well said.

(Source: embracefreespo, via weirdlyshaped)

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When Body Snark Becomes Even Uglier: The Problem with Calling People ‘T***y’

Edit: I’ve censored the T-word in this Tumblr post, and in the article title, but not in the text of blog post. I’ve also added a trigger warning. The reason is because the entire impetus behind this post is how I’ve been called the T-word (which I make clear is a slur), how being called that is used as a form of gender policing, and how that’s also reinforcing transphobia.


Edit 2: I’ve also censored the word within the article body.

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So true. As a younger woman, I went through a phase where I was losing weight (and really didn’t want to) and was flabbergasted at all the uninvited compliments I received. I never thought my body looked bad. I still don’t. But the number of people who thought I looked better simply because I lost weight was overwhelming. And discomfiting.

fuckyeahbodypositivity:

friend: omg you lost so much weight, how did you do it?

me: i stopped eating.

friend: hahaha.

me: 

me:

me:

friend: *awkward silence*

never comment someone’s weight unless you’re their doctor. 

because you never know the whole story.

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