ghoulfriend wrote:
I don't know. I have a lot of mixed feelings about that blog to be honest. Too many criticisms of it come off as OMG FAT PPL ARE SOOOO STUPID STOP WHINING FATTIES instead of legit stuff.
Quite possibly there are instances and individual submissions where legitimate criticism can be made, though overall criticism of the concept itself tends towards saying either a) fat people face no discrimination/hate or b ) fat people
deserve the discrimination and hate that they experience.
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TheMarshmallow wrote:
Fat discrimination does indeed exist, though rare. Discrimination against pretty much anything does.
Thin privilege, however, does not exist and you'd be insane to think it does.
Fat discrimination and hatred does indeed exist, and is pretty damn common. Part of the dynamic is that fat bodies are othered and defined by
not being the acceptable norm. The privileging of thin bodies over fat ones is the inevitable corollary, fat hate and discrimination do not exist in a vacuum, and you'd have to be blind to think it doesn't.
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thisisthinprivilege.tumblr.com/A lot of you may already be aware of this, I just thought some people might be interested in having a look. It's a bit like the Everyday Sexism project, but with the focus on fat discrimination/social & cultural erasure. Maybe some of you (particularly those newer to ideas of body/size acceptance) may find it cathartic & useful (or make you constructively angry), I've found it makes for some interesting reading.
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Eve hits the nail on the head. The Good Fatty/Bad Fatty dichotomy (and subsequent shaming of the latter for not being 'acceptable' ) is functionally no different from the Thin/Fat one that most of the rest of society subscribes to. Same shit, moved goalposts.
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When I saw the title of this thread I wondered it had something to do with the effects of alcohol on the belly
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I've got quite a bit of Hornby stuff under my bed. Maybe one day, when I move out and have some space, I'll start reassembling and adding to it again*...sigh...steam for me, as well.
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So yeah, currently working my way through Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. Perhaps not quite as pant-wettingly, bum-shittingly scary as The Dark Descent, but it's doing the job and is consistently very creepy (and Jessica Curry's musical score is about as excellent as I expected it to be
)
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Gassenhauer, Carl Orff. Rather fun and catchy
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Every so often I'm reminded that this film exists, I really must see it at some point even though this bit is only a subplot to the overall motif, looks like it handles it fairly well (in a 'it's just their thing' kind of way).
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