I'm going to post a couple links to sources for the next couple days to hopefully start a conversation in this space! These will fall in the area of Fat Studies and there's some norms you should be aware of:
- "fat" is taken as a neutral descriptor, think of it as reclaiming the word.
- "obese" arbitrarily medicalises fatness and Others fat people
I'm a cis man and I have (had) body image issues (in the past)
https://humanparts.medium.com/my-journey-toward-radical-body-positivity-3412796df8ff
I'm queer and fat
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yeefpijtl4s7orv/Flaunting%20Fat%20%E2%80%93%C2%A0Sex%20with%20the%20Lights%20On.pdf?dl=0
I'm queer and not fat
https://www.bitchmedia.org/post/fat-liberation-is-totally-queer
The others don't apply to me and/or I only have the energy/time to read one source
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/
:sankara-salute:
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Lol for real tho, Richard Froning Jr is supposed to be the fittest man alive or whatever and his BMI is almost 29, which puts him at overweight, close to "obese", because, well, he's basically really buff and muscles weigh a lot.
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On national scales, I agree. I was referring to the personal level. Someone can't just conclude that they are unhealthy just by looking at their BMI, you have to look at other things.
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Re: BMI, from this very thead: https://hexbear.net/post/83994/comment/910664
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