Fat acceptance isn’t saying that fat bodies are better. Fat acceptance isn’t saying that everybody should be fat. It’s about accepting bodies because they are bodies and they are attached to people with thoughts and feelings and it’s about self esteem and it’s about how everybody deserves respect, no matter what they look like. Fat acceptance is not body snarking on thin women, and it is not saying that real women have curves. A hip to waist ratio does not make anyone any more ‘real’ than anyone else. Curves do not a woman make. Criticizing thin bodies is actually just validating sizeism. Celebrating one thing by tearing down something else isn’t really very celebratory at all.
An Open Letter to James, Who Thinks “Curvy Girls Are Better Than Skinny Girls” (via ilovefat)
ok then….so why single out one body type for this so called ‘movement’? why is it called fat acceptance at all? it should be called what it is, what i call it. SIZE acceptance. when you have such a misleading name, how can you expect people not to be mislead about what it entails?
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All bodies have fat, even thin ones. Fat acceptance is about accepting that fact, accepting that fat is not the enemy, and that the level of fat on a body is not a helpful or realistic way of measuring health. The media likes to divide us up into “thin” and “fat”, “healthy” and “not healthy”, but realistically, and despite what BMI claims, it’s very hard to separate people into those categories. Fat acceptance is relevant to everyone, because we all have fat, and our fat (and even our potential fat) is constantly being attacked. Size acceptance or body acceptance are good names too, and I know people’s negative and misguided assumptions about the word fat can lead them to misunderstand what fat acceptance is all about, but as part of fat acceptance is about challenging those assumptions and teaching them that fat does not equal bad, then I don’t see any reason to avoid using the word.
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