“There’s Only One Thing To Do When The Internet Calls You Fat”
I laughed, cried, fist pumped and watched it twice.
The BEST thing you’ll see all day.
Weight Stereotyping: The Secret Way People May Judge You Based On Your Body
This was a controversial post from Glamour magazine that really got people talking! Read an excerpt below and click on the link to read more. Excerpt: “What our poll shows about the assumptions women hold… Heavy women are pegged as… “lazy” 11 times as often as thin women; “sloppy” nine times; “undisciplined” seven times; “slow” six times as often While thin women are seen as… “conceited” or “superficial” about eight times as often as heavy women; “vain” or “self-centered” four times as often; “bitchy,” “mean,” or “controlling” more than twice as often. Even the “good” labels are unfair. An overweight woman may be five times as likely to be perceived as “giving” as a skinny one. Read More: http://glamour.com/health-fitness/2012/05/weight-stereotyping-the-secret-way-people-are-judging-you-based-on-your-body-glamour-june-2012 Thoughts?
Some of my work from the last 4 months or so.
Really great work. Really great messages. Your voice is so refreshing! You’ve got my support. :-)
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Don't look past my disabled body - love it
Really great piece on body image:
The notion of “looking past” disability to somehow see “the real person” is one I have come to find deeply offensive. I spent my teenage years thinking that I needed to find someone who could ignore my physical body and see my “attributes” - my intelligence and humour, my mad knitting skillz. I thought that the only logical way for someone to find me attractive would be for them to ignore what I look like. It didn’t occur to me until years later that my body is also an attribute.
drawing challenge self-portrait
Wow. I’m glad I’m comfortable with myself, because people can be assholes.
- she looks like a boy…
- dyke
- butch
- lezbo
And to be honest, it all makes me feel a little dysphoric :/ but would I rather go back to having long blonde hair and wearing tight clothes that made me feel uncomfortable?
No.
Because labels will never bring me down. They’re all a bunch of homophobes anyway -_- I suppose I just wished people didn’t judge. That I could wear clothes from the boy’s department and not get stared down. I sometimes miss when boys would flirt with me, because I liked the attention. It made me feel pretty…
But then I think to myself…I have this gorgeous girl friend that reminds me I’m beautiful and sexy every day. And I don’t need other people’s approval.
Screw appearance dysphoria!! Be yourself. And be happy about it.
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Britney Spears volunteers before-and-after pictures to be shown to schools to help students overcome body image issues.
They also made her legs longer. The butt thing and the legs thing is something that weirds me out because when you see her in videos, you can tell that her butt isn’t that lifted and teeny and you can tell she has muscular short legs.
What I don’t get it, why doesn’t she just refuse to participate in ad campaigns that change her so dramatically and cause these self-esteem problems?
Fuck society’s idea of beauty.
Just in case you’d forgotten, being fat is still one of the most egregious of sins in the queer community. The sins of my body are punishable by constant public derision for 3 hours straight. An obnoxious overly tan woman feels allowed to tell me that I need to wear spanx. The most basic frosted-tip boystown ‘mo can touch my blessed belly and tell me to diet. A forgettable queen can take one look at me and say “REALLY?!!?!?” as if I didn’t exist. A femme and possibly trans* queen can laugh openly as I walk by. The most tired bleach blond circuit queen can dance sloppy and shirtless without vocal criticism, but I can’t walk a half a block without catching hate. Not to mention the numerous bitches who give me one look and giggle with their friends. I’m glad my body continues to have such amazing public power; who else is as legendary as me?
when marginalized persons seek to become oppressors as access to privilege, this happens. we are trained not to remove privilege, but to attain it, to seek it, to flaunt it - to exploit it. this is not just LGBTQI, but all persons. we are all taught to desire privilege and without openly acknowledging this perpetual pressure, we will seek only gain privilege for ourselves.
This is me, Jaclynn. I may not have a story that will break peoples hearts or be tragic but for the longest period of time I haven’t felt like myself, and I still don’t. I’ve been thinking about writing this post and submitting it thousands of times but every time I do, I just back down. I realized that I shouldn’t really care what others have to think or say about me. I’m not happy with who I am or what I look like yet I tell people to be all the time. I’m the “advice” friend. The one everyone goes to when they feel down and need a quick smile yet whenever I go to someone they all don’t seem to care. Sure every smile I make is fake, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t either. I’d rather see 100 people smile and be happy with who they are rather then myself. Everyone is beautiful, every single person out there. You may not believe in yourself and others may tell you otherwise but I can promise you that I think you’re beautiful, yes you reading this. Just because someone or a few people tell you otherwise shouldn’t stop you from being happy.
GPs missing anorexia in children
Children as young as five are being admitted to hospital with deadly conditions because GPs are failing to believe they could be suffering from eating disorders, a study has found.
Demand for critical care beds for malnourished children has surged over the past 12 months at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead because GPs were reassuring parents their youngsters could not be suffering from anorexia nervosa or bulimia and sending them home to get sicker, a child psychologist, Sloane Madden, said yesterday.
“We have had a 50 per cent increase in demand for beds, and we haven’t seen that increase in demand in hospitals looking after older adolescents with eating disorders,” Dr Madden said.
“At the moment, we have eight children in the hospital where we normally take six and we’ve got another five waiting for beds.”
In a study published today in the Medical Journal Of Australia, Dr Madden and colleagues from across Australia studied 101 children, aged between five and 13, who had been diagnosed with eating disorders and found that 78 per cent were so severely ill they had been admitted to hospital.
About half required naso-gastric tube feeding and one-third were given psychotropic medications, such as antidepressants, treatments not usually required in the early stages of the illness.
Children were often admitted to hospital with very low blood pressure, bradycardia and hypothermia which “basically is putting them at risk of dying”, Dr Madden said.
The study is the first of its kind to focus on young children nationally and revealed “major limitations in diagnostic criteria, possible missed diagnoses and a need for better education of health professionals”, he said.
Only 37 per cent of inpatients in the study met the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa while half did not meet the weight criteria, which requires the patient be less than 85 per cent of their ideal weight for height, but 61 per cent had potentially life-threatening complications such as malnutrition.
“The most worrying thing in Australia is that children are not being recognised as having eating disorders until they are very ill,” Dr Madden said.
“Parents may be concerned but they are reassured that there is nothing to worry about because there is a lack of recognition among medical professionals that this can occur in people so young.”
The study, which is one of three internationally which has shown the criteria for diagnosing eating disorders in adults should not be applied to young children, also found that a quarter of sufferers were boys, a contrast to the one in 10 men diagnosed with eating disorders.
“That’s because very young boys only know that to lose weight they need to cut their food intake,” Dr Madden said.
“Once these boys get older, they learn about protein diets, specific gym programs and steroids. They still have body dysmorphia but they fall through the cracks because they are no longer suffering malnutrition.”
He said the number of cases among both genders was expected to rise unless there was a change in the media’s obsession with fat and weight.
“I think that there needs to be a move away from this focus on weight and numbers and body fat, and a focus on healthy eating and exercise,” he said.
“You can see that in current programs like The Biggest Loser, where it is all about numbers and weight, it’s not helpful for those people and it’s certainly not helpful for this group of kids.”
http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/gps-missing-anorexia-in-children-20090419-abgq.html
