The body acceptance movement wants people to love themselves.
The fat acceptance movement wants others to love them.
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Difference between body and fat acceptance (via nothealthyateverysize)
Good try but no. Fat politics rejects the gaze that is put on our bodies and the demand that we conform to a social structure that privileges / idealizes thinness. Fat acceptance has nothing to do with other people accepting us but us accepting ourselves, though I would argue that i’m not really interested in demanding anyone to have a specific feeling about their own body.
Posts like this one are why I don’t use the term acceptance because people who are invested in fat hatred and idealizing thinness are too easily able to divert the true meaning behind “fat acceptance” to trivialize the movement. This is why I use the phrase fat politics. Not only because fat is inherently political but because as I stated above I’m not interested in working within a system that seeks to harm me or other fat people.
Fat politics is about the systemic and institutional discrimination fat people experience. Period. I don’t give a fuck if people love me or other fat people. I care that fat people have access to the same opportunities as thin people whether they are economic, social or institutional.
This is also why I am super critical of body acceptance in general. Too many people who are involved within body acceptance are fat hating. If you are promoting “acceptance” that means all people have the right to accept themselves, not the few people who you believe are allowed to.
(via fatbodypolitics)
All of that. See also why I always mistrust “Body Acceptance” since all too often its been meant as code for “We don’t want to say fat or be associated with fat”.
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