Fat activism

Agree this is a piss-take, but I spent a lot of time in the fat-o-sphere as a young adult and can say that I have certainly seen a sprinkling of the attitude that not wanting to sleep with fat people is shallow and should be "worked on" if you want to be a good person.

The screenshot is over-the-top rapey, whereas usually when this crops up it's more of a "you don't HAVE TO sleep with anyone, of course, but if you never date fat people then you're probably shallow and mean and bully your partners into anorexia and just can't handle a REAL WO/MAN!" etc etc.

Not at all representative of the fat acceptance/bodypos movement as a whole, but it absolutely happens.

I know someone who is into body positivity who also has a child that's been referred to the gender identity clinic. I didn't see a connection between the two before other than being managing techniques for difficult situations, but I now see pomo thinking underlying both. Nothing against body positivity in general, but pomo just ends up in having no kind of compass for right or wrong, true or false, doesn't it? The extreme consequences being complete lack of responsibility to oneself or anyone else, and a lack of striving towards any goals, everything against the norm becomes celebrated.

That reads like utter bullshit honestly.

I mean, claiming it's oppression or rape not to sleep with someone? The only people that come out with that bullshit are the incels.

This isn't an accepted or common belief within fat acceptance, nor is "encouraging a lot of vulnerable women to gain weight".

That's an enormous misrepresentation.

In my experience, fat acceptance is more similar to radical feminism in it's analysis. Body positivity is much more like liberal feminism.

It's not about making everyone fat, it's about allowing people with fat bodies to live a life free from abuse, and being aware of how biases in society can lead to poor treatment for fat people (eg. doctors prescribing weight loss no matter the health issue)

Here are some people talking about this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/whyweeareprouddofourrfatbodies

They just seem to be narcissistic and assume everyone is as interested in them as they are!

Again I can only say I am seeing a lot of similar messages within the community. It is genuinely an issue. There is a lot of aggression and pomo salad running all the way through the movement.

I can believe it. I've seen this kind of stuff. Why wouldn't people extend that logic?

That looks like a 4chan spoof.

The thing is, can we expect similar posters with the sexes reversed?

I.e. 'If a fat man wants to have sex with you - have sex with him?'

They're both somewhat rapey.

Having said that, I have seen other body positivity things that would seem to confirm that it's been influenced by the same PoMo wokeness as so much else has.

Sounds like a piss take, but kinda scary statement of our times that one can't be sure.....

That has to be a piss take surely?

In the name of the wee man, that can't possibly be real...can it...?

I honestly don't know anymore but I really hope it's satire - no one has the right to force/shame others into sex, no one.

I'm guessing the body positive movement has been co-opted by the same gang who believe that if anyone wants to have sex with you, you should learn to tolerate it.

I might be naive and I don’t know where that picture is from but I’d assume it’s a spoof.