Period

all my advice about using real athletes to learn drawing bodies beyond hard abs, and my particular pref being wrestlers, also applies to women btw. you can draw women who r strong and not an hourglass shape. fucking do it.

kris statlander, rhea ripley (look at her SHAPE), willow nightingale, ruby soho, these r just four off the top of my head that have obvious musculature and different body types. skye blue and julia hart have more slim cheerleader style bodies as well, i REALLY wanted to put emi sakura who is fucking STOUT (adoring) in this post but i couldn't find a good demonstrative pic, the list goes on

DRAW DIFFERENT BODIESSSSSSSS

strong women who are not thin and have diverse body types and shapes list. more under cut

Piper Niven

Li Wenwen

If being fat is inherently unhealthy no matter what, regardless of genetics and bone structure and whatever else, THEN EXPLAIN TO ME HOW THERE'S SO MANY FAT ATHLETES?! AND EXPLAIN WHY THEY'RE SO FREAKIN HOT?! TELL ME YOU WOULD'NT LET THESE WOMEN DROPKICK YOU IN A MINUTE LIKE HOT DAMN-

I aspire to be like these women. I've been working out for a couple months, not with the goal of losing weight, but with the goal of gaining muscle and strength, and I feel the healthiest I've ever been... but I'm not the lightest I've ever been. I feel better at 240 lbs, working out and not stressing as much about food than I did at 210 lbs and dieting.

Find what health is to you and don't let diet culture take your joy 🖤🖤🖤

My version of the “google autocomplete” series started by The Militant Baker, which is based on the UN Women ad campaign.

The fact that I have heard people say all of that shit to me and yet there are still people on each side of the political spectrum who question me when I say fat people are oppressed makes me want to scream.

-Mod Worthy

Thin privilege is better pay, particularly if you're a woman.

Thin women are paid more than fat women -- tens of thousands more by some estimates. This means thin women are valued as if they had more years of education and experience than fat women. To be at parity wages with thin women, fat women need to be much more educated (almost two years more education than thin women) and experienced (about three years more experience than thin women).

Researchers trying to determine why, have discovered that fat women are more likely to work in physical jobs and less likely to work in public-facing jobs than thin women. Public-facing jobs are generally better paid. Discrimination against fat women in public-facing jobs, like upper management and performance and waitressing and modeling and sales, could be the reason fat women on average make so much less than thinner women.

The most pay on average nets to relatively thinner women--about a 22 on the outmoded BMI scale.

Finally, take a gander at this absolutely devastating graph that shows a significant negative relationship between BMI/body fat and income for women from the St Louis Fed (2011):

This is thin privilege---massive, obvious, thin privilege.

-ATL

I hate the world we live in.

YES! YES! MORE OF THIS! ALL OF THIS!

I don't post about it much, so most of my followers probably don't know, but I'm currently working on a novel with intent to publish and have been for the past few years. When I was initially doing my character sketches in the beginning, my main goal was to avoid toxic, overdone stereotypes- specifically punk phobic and fatphobic ones. And to avoid the godforsaken "all the main characters are traditionally hot" syndrome.

The result of this is four plus size characters:

Ken; an athlete whose kindness gets taken advantage of.

Hyro; an opinionated nerd and fierce leader.

Akari; a caring emo girl with a mentally unwell boyfriend.

Hibiki; a seemingly lazy bum with a secret.

Is there a bummy, dislikeable fat character? Yes. There's also multiple lazy thin characters, including Jin who is traditionally sexy and attractive. It's all about fair representation and equality.

I have three alternative characters and not all of them are mentally ill or unstable or pagan or self harmers. In fact, Akari is none of the above. She's gentle and sweet.

My main character, Youko, is not aggressive and sassy and sarcastic as has become the one-size-fits-all for female protagonists. She's quiet, talented, insecure, and autism coded. Her possible love interest, Tomo, is one of the most average looking characters.

SORRY FOR THE VERY PERSONAL COMIC!!

This is my half of “Unhealthy”, an essay comic double header with the lovely and talented Sarah Winifred Searle. She and I both wrote about our personal experiences as overweight ladies with eating disorders, and her story is breathtaking! You can buy a physical copy of the book here: https://topatoco.com/collections/abby-howard/products/ah-unhealthy

Or buy a digital PDF here: https://abbyhoward.itch.io/unhealthy

A comic by an inspiring woman, whose story mirrors much of my own. -ATL

Time to re-up this one. Virtual hugs to everyone out there who has been told they shouldn’t live unless they are ashamed of being fat. You should. Please, live.

-ATL

Everyone should take the time to read this- but especially thin allies in the body positivity movement to end fatshaming who sympathize but haven't experienced fatphobia directly. Great insight into the mindset of fat people who want to be healthy, but have bad relationships with food that have been pushed on them by society.

This year we're not doing weight loss resolutions. No new fad diets or miracle workout programs, no magic pills, and definitely no bariatric surgeries. This year we're listening to our bodies, and more importantly we're loving our bodies. We do not need to be smaller to be worthy of that.

draw more fat people

all kinds of fat people

just do it ok

but like it's so punk for fat people to wear clothes that are deemed "unflattering" for fat people. In fact the next wave of punk fashion should be all people emphasizing their fat. Cut outs where the fat folds. Seams, belts, cuts, and patterns that hilight the fat instead of hide the fat of people of all sizes. Radical acceptance of fatness

As a fat punk, I can confirm that I NEVER consider if my clothes are "flattering" when I buy em or put em on. Doesn't even cross my mind. I don't know what that word "flattering' MEANS anymore and I'm SO glad I don't.

Don't dress to be thin and don't dress to fit an invisible "beauty" standard. I dress every morning with the intention of looking like a supervillain and absolutely nothing else. Who's with me?!

people really need to stop saying that fat people who are confident in their bodies, advocating for body positivity, and acceptance of fat people are "promoting obesity". promoting obesity would be having tens of thousands of ads and commercials advertising miracle diets and workout plans to gain weight quickly, only designing clothes for fat people, and having shelves and shelves worth of books promising the secrets to getting and maintaining a fat body. the only thing being promoted is love and acceptance of all body shapes and sizes, and that your weight and shape have no correlation to your worth and beauty as a person.

Now what do those examples sound like? If anything, modern day society is promoting disordered eating and unhealthy self image. Not obesity. And if you really wanna stop "promoting obesity" go after McDonald's and other companies for putting out ridiculously unhealthy food, not fat people trying to love themselves even though you insist we don't deserve it.

Literally being skinny and becoming more educated in fat liberation is like opening your third eye and you cant go back. Like you start noticing shit you never did before.

Go into the character design tag and look at how many characters are skinny and compare them to how many characters are fat. Go watch several movies see if the fat character is rich or is food obsessed or if theyre the tank or dumb or the comic relief etc. Im not even looking for these it just became blatantly obvious at some point and theyre everywhere

^^^ Good tips to start recovering from thin privilege toxicity, today! Share with thin liberals and progressives, thin friends and family members, etc etc etc.

A lot of well meaning thin people just don't see it because they're not looking for it. So it's our job to point it out.

Fat people are not required to dress up on Halloween as Ursula, Peter Griffin, Shrek, Paul Blart, Homer Simpson, Eric Cartman, Donald Trump, literal food, or any other fat villain/joke/stereotype. Fat people are allowed to dress up as Cinderella, Wolverine, what have you. We don’t even have to dress up as characters that are canonically fat. We don't have to cover our bodies ten times as much as thin people. And if you feel uncomfortable seeing a fat person not walk around as your fat joke personified and instead allowed to be seen as an actual human being for once, then that problem is your own.

-Mod Worthy

Wow I really needed to hear this today. Just put together a cosplay for a thin anime character and was feeling kinda rough about it.

Background: for the past 2 years or so I’ve been dealing with some health issues, that have progressively been getting worse. I’ve been tired all the time, sleeping for 12 hours isn’t enough, weak, had pain in all my joints and muscles (top to bottom), when I get home from work I lay on the couch until I get the strength to get ready for bed, and my most noticeable symptom is weight gain. Over the last 2 years I’ve gain almost 100 lbs in bursts, meaning I’ll gain 50 lbs in 3 months, 2 months later I’ll gain 70 lbs in 4 months, etc. obviously this isn’t normal and I needed medical attention.

Experience with doctors: over the past 2 years I’ve gone to about 5 doctors for these issues. They’ve refused me blood tests because these are all “symptoms” of weight gain, completely ignoring that my weight gain is a symptom. I even had a doctor refuse to treat me until I lost 75 lbs, he literally said he would even give me antibiotics for an infection if I didn’t lose weight! The same guy also told me “of course your joints hurt, you’re getting fat.”

Then, about 6 months ago I started getting horrible, can’t get out of bed, crying all the time depression and decided to seak mental health services. My psychologist is wonderful (we’ve talked about fat phobia and she told me she knows sometimes bigger people are worried about talking over these issues with her because she’s tiny, but she always tries her best to reassure us she is not a bigot and wants to help no matter what - she’s the best). My psychologist thought I could use some meds, so she referred me to a psychiatrist, who is also amazing and probably the best doctor I’ve ever been to. We started talking about mental and physical symptoms and he asked me why I hadn’t been to a doctor about the symptoms I was having, I told him the story, he became visibly angry, and said those people shouldn’t be doctors if they don’t want to help people! The psychiatrist tested my blood for everything, I had to give 5 tubes. Last week, after 2 years, I got the results. It turns out I have a significant vitamin D deficency, which cause all of these symptoms, both physical and psychological. All I needed were supliments that you can buy anywhere. I’ve only been taking them a week and I already feel amazing, including less hungry, no sugar cravings, and way more energy.

There are good doctors who will treat you, unfortunately some of us have to live with horrible pain for years before we can find them. I can’t help thinking that if I had started at 100 lbs instead of 180, I wouldn’t have had these problems getting treatment.

Why. Are. These. People. Doctors????