The engagement has been awesome so far! Excited to hear your thoughts on the piece, or pieces, you choose


On fat fetish

Gaining is the fetish that changes how we think about the male body

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/gaining-fetish

Feederism: Eating, Weight Gain, and Sexual Pleasure

https://www.dropbox.com/s/plxactm1t42iy2v/Feederism – Eating%2C Weight Gain%2C and Sexual Pleasure.pdf?dl=0


On race and fat

BMI

https://elemental.medium.com/the-bizarre-and-racist-history-of-the-bmi-7d8dc2aa33bb

Fatphobia

https://www.dropbox.com/s/w3f75wpefna44p1/Fearing the Black Body.pdf?dl=0


On dismantling thin privilege

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r9f06lm0g8j0y1w/Reflections on Thin Privilege and Responsibility.pdf?dl=0


Week one - Identity

Week two - Capitalism, gender, media and health at every size


As a reminder, these fall in the area of Fat Studies and there’s some norms you should be aware of:

  • “fat” is taken as a neutral descriptor, think of it as reclaiming the word.
  • “obese” arbitrarily medicalises fatness and Others fat people

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  • PaulWall [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 years ago

    Thanks for putting effort into fighting this nonsense. This poster is making medical concerns arbitrary by bringing attention away from the syndrome of obesity and focusing on the symptoms which possibly can be “present at every BMI level.”

    Your analogy of the syndrome of smoking causing the symptom of lung cancer is apt here. For how are we to stop endemic lung cancer without stopping endemic smoking, and how are we to stop what are provably endemic symptoms of obesity without first dealing with obesity?

    (my usage of ‘symptoms’ and ‘syndrome’ was chosen bc the word syndrome is widely considered ‘that which causes symptoms’. by calling obesity a syndrome, i am only claiming that it produces symptoms. there is not meant to be any further negative connotation than it being the thing that produces symptoms)