BONGINO: Sean, people vote kitchen table issues, they vote on the fatness of their wallet, you know, not the fatness of fake Russian collusion charges which they&aposve wasted all this time on.
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Oh and fatness is a party BUT YOURE NOT INVITED.
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Often in television and films, a person's fatness defines them.
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It can be challenging to deduce fatness from pictures alone.
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My fatness is the finished product, just like this permanent tattoo.
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Framing fatness as a fault can also prove damaging to people's health.
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It offers a more nuanced take on fatness, body image, and friendship.
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Especially with fatness in general, it's easy for women to feel desexualized.
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With fat people, doctors tend to see fatness before they ever listen.
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Every other Wednesday, Hagen talks about sexuality, gender, pronouns, fatness, and therapy.
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The stories about fatness that are being lauded and written about and produced right now are about white women, or at least star white women, as if fatness and joy intersecting is purely a story of white people.
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In the early 1800s, colonialist "scientists" used fatness as one of the markers for social hierarchies, with fatness as one of the "uncivilized" characteristics attributed to the Black and indigenous people placed at the bottom of this scale. 42.
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In this way, their use perpetuates harmful and one-dimensional understandings of fatness.
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We are consistently disbelieved and misdiagnosed because doctors cannot see past our fatness.
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Step away from oversimplified stereotypes that make negative assumptions about fatness and fat people.
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I did a lot of research about bodies, fat, fatness, that sort of thing.
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Is my own fatness having some sort of unintended consequence on my child's psyche?
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Netflix, for whatever reason, cannot deliver a depiction of fatness with any nuance or empathy.
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In that moment of despair I had an epiphany; what if I accepted my fatness?
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The conference includes study presentations, each one a possible clue to the mystery of fatness.
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Before fucking someone new, I feel the need to address my fatness before we meet.
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These people, and loads more, do great work pulling apart the common misconceptions about fatness.
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Issues which shouldn't have been issues -- like Monica's childhood fatness -- were used for cheap, offensive laughs.
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Read critical thinking about fatness by fat writers: Cat Pausé, Kivan Bay, Roxane Gay, Sofie Hagen.
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I always had more weight to lose, and was so anxious and depressed about my perceived fatness.
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Both exercise and portion control, in other words, had effectively protected the animals against their fated fatness.
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I just knew the basic shit we teach everyone about fatness: that it is bad and undesirable.
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Dramas too, like This Is Us, use fatness as a defining characteristic (and not a positive one).
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Stories about fatness have (almost) only been about sadness and self-loathing, but they don't have to be.
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If you did, you'd realize that fatness is above a size 18 and bad fatties deserve clothing, too.
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The universal distaste for fatness is so loud that it drowns out our sense of right and wrong.
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Even recent, popular shows that tackle intersectional issues exceedingly well get fatness wrong and fall into old, cruel traps.
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Part of this issue is that the weight-loss industry makes a lot of money off of anti-fatness.
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Sentence by sentence, the book blends the leanness of a taut thriller with the marbled fatness of Elizabethan prose.
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But there is a difference between understanding disordered eating and understanding and portraying fatness and weight loss with nuance.
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It's not about just fat bodies, because you can't divorce fatness from the other marginalized parts of your identity.
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Next, the company is addressing the "fatness" and "slowness" of its sites to ensure the reader experience is faster.
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Since all of us, as the girls understand it, hover precariously and constantly on the brink of potential fatness.
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They were comfortable, and while many people did not like my fatness, they did like my feminine, curly hair.
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Weight watchers was a ... I wanted to do a story about American fatness and that story, I did backwards.
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Some defended the film, arguing that Sierra's self-consciousness realistically reflects the way many people internalize cultural hostility toward fatness.
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There's systemic abuse for fat children because they are fat and because this anti-fatness culture is so pervasive…so, yeah.
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In short, fat characters are defined entirely by their fatness, and only get to become multidimensional once they lose the weight.
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Essays about fatness had existed long before the post and have continued to evolve during and after West published this letter.
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Body-mass index, a calculation derived from a person's weight and height, is used as a screening tool for body fatness.
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We need to make room for weave, highlight and contour alongside wheelchairs, fatness and full 360 liposuction with Brazilian butt lifts.
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She imbues fatness with the shame of moral failure and demeans women who struggle to — or do not want to — lose weight.
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Letting Eleanor be fat and be loved is much needed in today's climate of "the obesity epidemic" and misplaced concerns with fatness.
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" His setting, "Marrow," takes its title from the line "My soul shall be satisfied, even as it were with marrow and fatness.
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Fatness is an obvious taboo within our culture; actively deciding to gain weight, is, therefore, the ultimate act of agency and transgression.
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So it became this very public bearing witness to my mental illness and my trauma and my fatness, being like, 'Look at me.
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What if I was, word by word, contributing to a culture that stigmatizes fatness by treating it as a kind of medical doomsday?
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Could you talk a little bit about the thinly veiled aura of anti-fatness you see lurking around "health" and weight-loss spaces?
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You've said when you were writing Hunger that your body and fatness in particular was the thing you wanted to write about least.
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I was the "wrong" kind of body positive because I'd been forced to admit that there could be serious health consequences to fatness.
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Logically speaking, there's nothing wicked about being fat, but in Rogers's world fatness is equated with malfeasance and corruption, or at least with foolishness.
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"BIG LADY, TINY MAN, GET IT??" is not much of a punchline, to me, nor is the very notion of fatness and desire intersecting.
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I can still remember the malice I enacted on myself, the years of truly believing that anything I did was tainted by my fatness.
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I think that my writing about fatness is one where I'm looking at how fat bodies carry and receive quite a lot of oppression.
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I wrote a book about fatness in the world, and I wanted to expand the conversations that we have about different kinds of bodies.
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Most notably, he doesn't magically snap back to his previous weight, as is common in other films that use fatness as a punch line.
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Until the late 19th century, fatness had been positively associated with luxury available only to a wealthy few (mostly male) "fat cats" and leisured ladies.
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Certainly people are more careful in the ways that they speak [about fatness], because they're now a little bit more afraid of getting yelled at.
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The writers of Insatiable have never met a stereotype they don't love, whether they're portraying fatness or queerness or Blackness or pretty much anything else.
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Mainstream media is meant to reflect mainstream values, and right now, it's doing just that: People find fatness as a concept and an image unacceptable.
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She treats her fatness as a physical expression of her PTSD, which means it's not something that she can love and accept about herself unconditionally.
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In Margot's horror at Robert's body, "Cat Person" seems to be flattening the category of fatness into the category of things that are sexually disgusting.
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It's impossible for me to peruse Instagram these days without feeling bombarded by accounts that sexualize women's curves, thickness, fatness—whatever you want to call it.
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Often times when we walk through the streets and people look at us weird, it's hard to know if it's about our fatness or our transness.
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The excerpt below draws on the modern-day nostalgist's wishful thinking about the past in a discussion on "fatness" and body image in the 19th century.
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We talk about fatness differently now than we did five years ago—fat people are no longer safe targets—and I hope I did my part.
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The final sections lack the bandwidth, the fatness of feeling and the complex sense of themes raked together that the best novels (even plotless novels) deliver.
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Dietland centers a fat actress in her own complicated, many-sided story because Nash's character Alicia, also known as Plum, is not defined by her fatness.
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The scene is earnest but funny, with the joke landing on how out of touch Suzy is, rather than getting us to laugh at fatness itself.
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Body mass index or BMI, a calculation derived from a person's weight and height, can be used as a screening tool for body fatness and obesity risk.
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In her signature unflinching style, Gay unpacks the particular heartbreak of living in an obese body in a world that discriminates against fatness and marginalizes fat people.
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These foods are a "cheat" because the consequences of guiltlessly and regularly eating them—which is to say, the appearance of fatness—is considered unacceptable and unflattering.
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More than 8 percent of cancers in Texas and Washington, D.C., are associated with body fatness, but only 6 percent in Colorado and 5.9 percent in Hawaii.
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There is no inherent unhappiness to womanhood, or to fatness, or to blackness, or to anything else that American beauty standards have long treated as a problem.
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But they still fail at issues of size and weight; Terry's former fatness is still played for laughs as a shameful time when he was out of control.
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Hollywood has pushed the narrative that fat people hate themselves because fat people are disgusting and their self-loathing is inherently earned as a byproduct of their fatness.
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When Deliciously Ella allays our fears that "things like avocados and almonds will make you fat," she leaves that foundational anxiety around fatness intact as a valid concern.
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Ms. Walker wants us to believe that a fat body does not always need "to be fixed," and that fatness can be a positive attribute, a form of beauty.
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"Women's perceptions of their strength and their body fatness changed during exercise, and statistically we can show that that's what caused the change in body image," says Martin Ginis.
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They assumed, still a widely held assumption today, that eating disorders are the result of extreme measures taken to eradicate fatness, the least desirable of all the body states.
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What Michaels derisively calls "political correctness" is actually an attempt to reduce the harm done by these messages, to fight back against an ocean of negative messages about fatness.
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It doesn't matter if I detest everything that Trump stands for, we cannot allow ourselves to slip into the trap of brandishing his fatness as a symbol of his hatefulness.
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They are too ill to find relief in the "body positivity" movement happening outside and online; the only people who can understand their overwhelming fear of fatness are one another.
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It was hard not to suspect that she was trapped, like so many of us are, in a culture that says one thing about fatness and means something very different.
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It suggests that we re-examine what we think we know about fatness, that we consider trying to love and care for our bodies at whatever size they are now.
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Annie asserts her bodily autonomy when she gets an abortion, and that kick starts her resolve to be more assertive about who gets to talk about her body and her fatness.
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After months of witnessing so much anxiety over a harmless three-letter adjective, it's become clear that fat — not just the word, but fatness itself — is apparently so horrible it is unspeakable.
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It's time society's view of fatness alters enough that a fat woman can fall in love with a slim man, a fat man, or anyone of any size, without a second thought.
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"I've seen quite a bit more talk about dieting, body hate and discomfort with fatness on social media in personal finance circles than I expected when I first got into this," McElhaney said.
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I asked myself whether I really am happy to take up space, or whether I am only happy to do so when I feel like I'm compensating for my fatness in other ways.
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All of these companies are allowed to court whatever clientele they choose, but fatness doesn't exist in a vacuum, and the choice to exclude people based on their bodies is not value-neutral.
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This is the new narrative, here in Dumplin' and Isn't It Romantic and especially in Shrill: We live in a world where fatness is punished, bludgeoned to subservience, but you don't have to be.
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Imagine it's all true: that fatness is a matter of will, and fat people are all unhealthy, regardless of lifestyle, genetics, history, diet, physical activity, and other medical conditions, simply because they are fat.
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Trump's failure to realize that demeaning fatness is an insult to himself may be part of his much larger issue of personal denial and an inability to differentiate between truth and self-serving falsifications.
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She gave seminars to doctors on fat phobia and weight bias in an effort to help them understand how their views on obesity were hurting their patients and not allowing them to examine fatness neutrally.
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The trailer for Sierra Burgess dropped just as controversy built around Insatiable, Netflix's other recent stab at a high school body image story that was heavily criticized for its offensive portrayals of fatness and weight loss.
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"People have this idea that fatness and health are the same conversation, and in fact they're not," says Virgie Tovar, prominent author and activist, who often lectures on the topic from a historical and cultural perspective.
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The costs of weight loss in children are typically defined as dollars per unit of body mass index (BMI), a rough index of body fatness calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height squared in meters.
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But when it comes to coronary heart disease outcomes, studies that take both weight and physical fitness into account have concluded that "fitness is more important than fatness," at least for the moderately obese, he said.
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"Our whole entire culture tries to pathologize fatness," says Janell Hobson, professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY, and author of the book Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender .
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Presented against Gay's poignantly told personal account, these observations do not constitute a manifesto, the sort that can be adopted by fat-activists; they are more of an assessment of the cost of these aspersions on fatness.
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Most mainstream sources agree on this, but there are definitely some researchers who don't; there are some who think that people who end up fat have different physiologies, and that fatness is just one component of them.
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Of course, I wouldn't have been able to endure it if I spent every waking moment obsessing over how I had screwed up my life, so I went to great pains to distract myself from my own fatness.
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And yet, a month or so ago when life-sized naked Trump replicas were turning up around the country and people were jesting about the fatness of this man who, terrifyingly, wants to be president - I didn't laugh.
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Insatiable will also be a dark comedy with a fat (or formerly fat) protagonist; however, watching how Insatiable plays out its own main character's relationship with fatness will be very telling as to who the story is for.
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That contrast — the visual of the character wearing a fat suit versus the character without it — can have the effect of implying that fatness, when constantly compared to the superior thinness, is grotesque and deserves to be laughed at.
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And yet throughout these books—the very same ones that tell us to locate our self-worth not in how we look but in who we are and how we feel—there is a consistent, entrenched fear of fatness.
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People who were critical of Insatiable since the release of the trailer caught this right away—the show wants its characters to overcome fatness instead of finding ways for them to find happiness and comfort in their existing bodies.
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So far, it appears that the heavier partner in every couple the show features is a woman, and that each woman&aposs fatness is portrayed as a flaw the couple had to overcome to be in their prospective relationships.
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" The podcast to listen to for radical self-love before that pool party:She's All Fat: A Body Positive Podcast by April K. Quioh and Sophie Carter-Kahn focuses on "current events, popular culture, and the intersections between fatness and feminism.
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Assuming fatness as bad is a byproduct of a culture that already is on board with Trump's thinking, positioning some -- in this case thin people - as deserving of respect, and positioning others as unworthy of kindness, care and equal treatment.
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If you're a thin person — if you live in a world where fatness is coded as a moral failing, where we believe that fat people are lazy and stupid and dirty, and immoral — then that's a pretty great ego boost.
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But before you give up trying to lose weight, a better understanding of the likely sources of those extra pounds and the most successful approaches to losing them may help you achieve a double goal: more fitness and less fatness.
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The "humor" comes from seeing actors wearing a silly costume, like Eddie Murphy in Norbit or The Nutty Professor, and from the ability to crack jokes at a past character's fatness with the knowledge that the present character is laughing now too.
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There's nothing capitalism can't alchemize into a business opportunity, but for it to be a useful tool for marketers, body positivity needed to be decoupled from fatness and political advocacy, sanitized, and neatly repackaged into something that begins and ends with images.
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I researched the history of body image, studied the real facts around fat and health (spoiler: Everything the world thinks it knows about fatness and health is wrong), and joined a community of other people who were as invested in body acceptance as I was.
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"If she is saying this because this is 'just what people say,' then I think it is a great time to discuss the messages we hear about our bodies, thinness, and fatness, and about how these expectations can be hard to live up to," Dr. Holub says.
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Gay's identification of trauma as the root cause of her weight issues, her blunt tying up of her eating with her need for emotional security and even her admitted desire to "feel more comfortable in her body" will grate on those who want unquestioned acceptance for fatness.
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And, just because it's delicious, take a look at the Psalm they're reading in Episcopal churches today, the fourth Sunday of Easter: "My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness" Let that be true of us all, wherever we come from, wherever we're going.
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"Working under a research permit from NOAA Fisheries, we have been able to fly a custom-made research drone high above the whales, to non-invasively collect images to measure the width (to infer fatness) and length (to monitor growth) of the whales," said the SR3 website.
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For instance, transgender comedian Robin Tran positions herself as wryly self-aware about her own internalized misogyny, joking that she might be setting the women's movement back 50 years by transitioning into a stereotype; comedian Sonia Trevino opens her routine by turning her own fatness into a repeated punchline.
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As a plus-sized woman, I know when I see a performer wearing one that I'm not about to watch a sensitive or nuanced portrayal of fatness, but yet another recycling of lazy stereotypes that contribute to the continued stigmatization and marginalization of people who share my body type.
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"Lizzo, who has now crossed into mainstream hyper-visibility, has to deal with the hypercritical gaze that both her fatness and black female identity draw onto her image," the Daily Beast said in a piece on how the thong incident spoke volumes on how blackness is perceived in media.
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You can find it in the portrayal of fat people as inherently unathletic in Brittany Runs a Marathon; in TLC shows that treat fatness as spectacle; and in the clusterfuck that was Netflix's Insatiable, in which the main character finally earns hotness by shedding a literal fat suit.
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There are trailblazers challenging this norm, one of the most notable being Chrissy Metz in This Is Us. But yet again, Metz's character, though given a love story, is trapped in the world of fatness, unable to break through the barrier of self-doubt and into the life of exuberant confidence.
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But second, it was because if you have this many hundreds of smart and educated people trying to figure this out, and nobody has anything for me but superfood and behavior modification and an insertable balloon and the removal of an organ, it must be that there is no way to solve fatness.
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As she tries to find a way out of her predicament, she laments, "My life just started," and it is one of the most frustrating and painful moments of the entire series, because it reveals so much about how the show's creators, and how this world sees fatness as a problem, an obstacle to overcome.
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With both Pauline Quirke on 1990s drama The Sculptress and Chrissy Metz on American Horror Story (a murder movie and freak show exhibit, respectively), lingering shots of their fleshiness are used in an attempt to suggest grotesqueness, so that audiences can infer their fatness is the reason they depart from conventional society and ultimately meet tragic ends.
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Statistically speaking, fatness is more common than thinness, and the reasons for this are deeply complicated — including but not limited to food insecurity, poverty, lack of education around nutrition and medical bias, and genetic predisposition — and more than just "people got lazy" or "people are more stupid," and so the stories about fat people are not stories about a specific niche of humanity but about an ever-expanding pool of personhood with their own heft and gravity.
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