I'm so grateful to the engagement with the sources last week, you're all awesome!
In part one, the pieces were more identity focused, today I'm posting for specific facets of fatphobia that may be of interest.
As a reminder, these 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
On capitalism and food
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kuqdcayyxt0ifax/Between%20Obesity%20and%20Hunger.pdf?dl=0
On fat and gender
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ir5f7nyn5a5y180/part-time%20fatso.pdf?dl=0
On fat representation in the media
https://www.vulture.com/2018/07/guy-branum-wants-to-see-more-real-fat-people-on-tv.html
On the "Health at Every Size" movement
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ybfbkqak4wtu3wp/What%20is%20%22Health%20at%20Every%20Size%22%3F.pdf?dl=0
:sankara-salute:
I gotta say I really disagreed with the whole joy of movement part at first. It doesn't seem so bad as an idea, I don't think it's as good an idea as regular excercise though.
The human body needs excercise to be healthy. Some animals can get away with lying ecased in mud for weeks and weeks but not us. We've just evolved to be that way. I get that it's really hard for some people to get motivated especially if they are sedintary but unless you're somebody with extremely high needs I don't think going for a walk in the morning or doing a plank once a day even though that isn't what you want to do is going to do more harm than good.
Obviously not everyone can get the excercise their body requires every day right away but they can work their way up to it.