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Remember a while back I posted a link to Jim C. Hines trying to pose the way women are posed on novel covers? (Which has since been re-submitted to me 10000000 times XD )
He’s done a sequel after all the usual “but men are objectified toooo” & “what about romance covers huh? huh? huh?” (this one is particularly problematic in another way because it implies that every other genre is specifically meant to be a hetero male sexual fantasy.
http://www.jimchines.com/2012/04/posing-like-a-man/
There it is. The painful life of posing like a man. XDHe’s so brilliant I want to give him infinite hugs. :D
/fangirl
AHEM.
I love that he photoshopped himself in both poses in the last one too.
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NotesI don’t date Muggles or Muggle-borns. It’s not racism, just a preference. I’ll date Half-bloods if they grew up in the magical world, though.
Is it true all Muggle-borns have longer wands?
It’s not MY fault Purebloods are naturally more powerful.
I’ve never personally experienced “Pureblood Privilege”, so it doesn’t exist.
How come you can call other Muggle-borns the M-word, but I can’t? How is that okay?
Purebloods suffered persecution from Muggles, but you don’t hear uscomplaining about it. Bootstraps!
I think it’s even MORE racist to assume that I have “privilege” because I’m pureblood!
ANYONE can be a Mudblood, not just Muggle-borns!
It’s not my fault Mudbloods often live up to the stereotypes!
Muggle-borns just happen to be more dangerous and prone to violence because they come from such un-magical backgrounds.
If you hate the Wizarding world so much why don’t you leave Hogwarts?
If a Pureblood calls you a Mudblood, it’s automatically racist? But you can call me a Death Eater and that’s NOT racist? That’s so unfair!
Words only have the power you give to them. Besides, Mudblood now means “friend” anyway, so there’s no problem with me using it! Mudblood Mudblood Mudblood!
How can I have pureblood privilege? I’m a Black wizard! You know the Wizarding world is Eurocentric. Wait…what’s intersectionality?
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NotesBitch, please.: Thin Privilege Checklist
- I can be sure that people aren’t embarrassed to be seen with me because of the size of my body.
- If I pick up a magazine or watch T.V. I will see bodies that look like mine that aren’t being lampooned, desexualized, or used to signify laziness, ignorance, or lack of self-control.
- When I…
THIS. Please click on it and read it. ALL OF IT.
I’m torn on this. On the one hand, yes, larger people do have to deal with a lot of shit. On the other…I’ve experienced all of these because I’ve spent most of my life being dangerously underweight. People assume I’m anorexic. They assume I can’t take care of myself. If I say I’m getting a pizza for dinner instead of making something I’m told that I should focus on healthy food to gain weight (because that totally never occurred to me). Any health problem I have is blamed on my weight. If I’m depressed it must be because I have body image issues. Being trans is because I don’t feel “womanly” enough with a small chest.
What’s more, I get most of this from people who are ‘fat and proud’ activists. I have zero problems with people being larger than me. I’m fully aware of the fact that humans come in a wide variety of sizes and what’s healthy for me may well be a starvation weight for someone else. That’s not the assumption though. The assumption is that because I’m underweight (something I don’t enjoy, btw) I must be fat-phobic. I must hate everyone who isn’t a size zero.
Yes, size-ism is bad. It’s not solely toward people on the larger end of the spectrum though. Those of us who fall on the smaller end have to put up with our share of bigotry too. In fact, we deal with much of the same bigotry. It’s just spoken of more quietly.
No. It is not the same. The fact that you would even say that is indicitive of how much privilege you have.
No it really isn’t.
It really isn’t.
What you’re experiencing is a combo of body-policing and ableism, but not sizeism/fatphobia. Now when skinny people are made the butt of jokes, have whole lines of dietary supplements, surgeries, and weight loss equipment marketed towards them to gain weight, rather than lose it, when thin people have to deal with the hassle of clothes in their sizes not being available or just plain unappealing because designers don’t draw with big bodies and mind and the media downplays their sexuality as non-existent, then you can say that it’s the same.
Until then? It’s not, and that’s coming from a skinny person.
i hate how this stuff is only ever taken seriously FROM skinny people.
I know right. That’s why white people listen to Tim Wise instead of the actual POC he gets his rhetoric from.
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DOLLAR DOLLAR BILLSPRIVILEGE YA’LL.*rolls eyes*.
Okay, in DESCENDING ORDER OF FAIL.
1. “If I say I’m getting a pizza for dinner instead of making something I’m told that I should focus on healthy food to gain weight (because that totally never occurred to me).” - Do you know why you’re told this?
Because people are telling you, basically, “DON’T GET FAT”. They’re not actually concerned about your health, they’re concerned that you won’t just gain weight until you’re not so underweight that it’s noticeable but that you’ll keep going and turn into a BIG FAT FATTIE like, say, me. The reason you get this policing is because of fatphobia. Sorry that some of THE OPPRESSION THAT AFFECTS MY DAILY LIFE got on you, but this is not about thinphobia.
This is about people telling a thin person not to eat fatty foods so they won’t become A FATTY.
If I say I’m getting a pizza for dinner, people lecture me about how I’m going to die, and how I don’t need it, how maybe I should just skip dinner. If I dare to eat that pizza in public, I have to worry that pictures are going to be taken of me and circulated around, I have people STARING AT ME.
I’m sorry that you’re dealing with anorexic. That sucks, and I hope you take good care of yourself, really.
But you know those behaviors and things that people see as disordered and unhealthy in you - the skipping meals, not eating, exercising several hours a day (if that’s part of your disorder), and all the other things? Basically, the starvation.
Fat people who engage in the same behaviors are told that it’s a) healthy and b) what they should be doing all along. And many are denied basic things like medicines, surgeries, pain management therapies until they’ve done this long enough that a health care professional will decide to just help them FUNCTION.
Fat people who dehydrate themselves until they piss blood and exercise until they injure themselves and starve themselves do not get treatment. They get put on reality TV shows and held up as an example of what all fat people should be doing. Books and DVD’s and websites are promoted to tell them how to copy this behavior.
2. “Any health problem I have is blamed on my weight.”
Have you ever been told by a health care professional that they won’t give you any medicine or prescribe any treatment until after you’ve gained the weight?
Have you been told lately that you’re part of the Thinness Epidemic?
Have you been told that because your thinness causes your health problems, you’re a burden on the health care system and therefore should be denied insurance or charged higher rates?
Because I HAVE HAD THESE THINGS HAPPEN TO ME.
3. Next commenter, “Until then? It’s not, and that’s coming from a skinny person.”
So glad that you wanna help, really. But all those talking points you just spouted? They’re things that fat activists have been saying for GODDAMN YEARS, and so many people haven’t listened to them.
By saying “and that’s coming from a skinny person”, you’re actually saying, “Look, if it was just fatties saying this, it might not be true, but an actual, believeable SKINNY PERSON is telling you this, so it is.”
You are asserting your skinny privilege (ie, the privilege you have wherein people do not, based on your size, think you’re delusional, stupid, mistaken, or otherwise just morally bankrupt with regards to your weight, health, eating, and exercise) to validate the words of fat activists. Thus reinforcing that it isn’t enough for fat people to say something. A skinny person needs to be there to give it that validity.
Because otherwise, it would just be some stupid thing fat people are saying.
In future, if you want to help, I suggest LINKING to the words of actual fat activists. There are plenty of blogs with plenty of quotes and links out there. I suggest centering and privileging the actual activism done by fat people, not just taking their talking points and putting a “This Skinny Person Approves” stamp on them.
That commentary.
STANDING OVATION FOR COMMENTARY!
(Source: fatshadow.com, via torayot)
