the answer is that they don’t want fat people to exist, period. not in restaurants, not in the gym, not on the bus next to them. nowhere. they want you to be born skinny, or cease to exist. it’s never been about health or exercise. they don’t care about fat people point blank.
I don’t get harassing fat people that exercise.
“Ew… you’re fat.”
Do you want them to not be fat? Then maybe let them exercise.
(Also Lizzo is fat and like in amazing shape compared to most skinny people. So like fat people can be healthy.)
(Double also. Not everyone is capable of a healthy body and shaming fat people in the name of “health” is not only fatphobic, but abelist.)
But to the initial point of the post. You shame fat people got being fat. Want them to lose weight. The exercise is kinda necessary for most fat people to lose weight. So maybe just let them exercise.
-fae
therein lies the problem, of course. they want us to exercise, but not around them. they want us to hide our struggles and journeys and shame, only to emerge when the ‘transformation’ is complete.
because if they had to deal with us in the thick of it, they’d have to see us struggling and working, and see our bodies moving.
and they are very, very uncomfortable with our bodies.
My fat body is no one else’s business. No one has the right to tell me to do anything with it. And it doesn’t matter how people feel about that or about my size. There have always been fat bodies all throughout history. Body shaming needs to fucking stop. Why is it that I make straight sized people uncomfortable when I sit next to them? That shouldn’t be a thing that happens. It’s all so disgusting and disheartening.
You need to give your domesticated wading ghosts larger death pools. I understand if you can’t find a real Well, but you need an enclosure at least 5 times the size of the spirit itself.
Thank you for the PSA, and it’s certainly good advice! I am happy to report that in this particular photoset we’re looking at a temporary holding tank, possibly being used to keep a lab employee safe during a routine water test. There is a strict no-shared-space policy for outside contractors at reputable spirit preserves, both to keep the ghost from becoming frustrated at its inability to approach what it perceives as prey, and to ensure the safety of outside parties. Training sessions focusing heavily on positive reinforcement are used to get the ghost accustomed to the holding tank as well as short trips between the pond and an appropriate secured location. Many health checks and enrichment activities can be conducted directly at the water source, but sometimes a more controlled environment is required. Please be assured that the ghost in the photographs is doing ‘well’. ☆⌒( ＾ ▽ ゜)
“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”
no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it
The idea that young people are getting used to not being able to speak in public about sex, queerness etc without talking around censors, and see this as normal and not a problem, scares me tbh.
these people tell on themselvesss like they’ll swear up and down that skincare is about ✨self care✨ and 🌱health 🌱 and 🤍 pampering yourself 🤍 and not an obsessive fear of aging and ugliness that’s being exploited by a 100 billion dollar industry, but if you express any modicum of surprise or exasperation or disinterest at their nightly twelve-step routine, they’re like shut up you ugly wrinkled dusty hag. umm okay patrick bateman but i thought it was about self care not beauty 🤔
