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cant find that pic with a 50~ old looking guy's legs in shorts on a grass with a caption about being happy about that time of the year or something, does anyone know the one i mean and can retrieve it? i browsed the last 10 pages or so and couldn't spot it.

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no way is that fat liberation thing real. like, i'm all for not making fun of people's body shape. but to compare it to other social justice struggles it a bit rich.

 

the "intersects with white supremacy" bit is a..a bit much.

 

 

but really.. in college, wtf do people write papers about anymore?? how many thesis papers can be written by the average student? i can imagine people sitting around brainstorming because fuck!!!.. gotta come up with any idea for a paper/presentation?? what should i do?? i got it! sizes of people!

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no way is that fat liberation thing real. like, i'm all for not making fun of people's body shape. but to compare it to other social justice struggles it a bit rich.

 

 

 

Fat Liberation Manifesto

1. WE believe that fat people are fully entitled to human respect and recognition.

 

2. WE are angry at mistreatment by commercial and sexist interests. These have exploited our bodies as objects of ridicule, thereby creating an immensely profitable market selling the false promise of avoidance of, or relief from, that ridicule.

 

3. WE see our struggle as allied with the struggles of other oppreressed groups against classism, racism, sexism, ageism, financial exploitation, imperialism and the like.

 

4. WE demand equal rights for fat people in all aspects of life, as promised in the Constitution of the United States. We demand equal access to goods and services in the public domain, and an end to discrimination against us in the areas of employment, education, public facilities and health services.

 

5. WE single out as our special enemies the so-called “reducing” industries. These include diet clubs, reducing salons, fat farms, diet doctors, diet books, diet foods and food supplements, surgical procedures, appetite suppressants, drugs and gadgetry such as wraps and “reducing machines”.

 

WE demand that they take responsibility for their false claims, acknowledge that their products are harmful to the public health, and publish long-term studies proving any statistical efficacy of their products. We make this demand knowing that over 99% of all weight loss programs, when evaluated over a five-year period, fail utterly, and also knowing the extreme proven harmfulness of frequent large changes in weight.

 

6. WE repudiate the mystified “science” which falsely claims that we are unfit. It has both caused and upheld discrimination against us, in collusion with the financial interests of insurance companies, the fashion and garment industries, reducing industries, the food and drug industries, and the medical and psychiatric establishment.

 

7. WE refuse to be subjugated to the interests of our enemies. We fully intend to reclaim power over our bodies and our lives. We commit ourselves to pursue these goals together.

http://thisisthinprivilege.org/post/111376503253/fat-liberation-manifesto

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