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stupidityinmyhead wrote in saying the following:”Women do not need to be SKINNY. But we DO need to be healthy. Articles, media etc. encouraging unhealthy people to stay overweight and unhealthy in order to “be comfortable with themselves” annoy me just as much as the media encouraging weight loss.Eating healthy does NOT equal a diet where you have to starve yourselves and live on carrots and lettuce and work out for 8 hours a day. It means staying active, resting and eating what you want without completely living on McDonald’s.Why is it that people only see the two extremes (skinny, ED’s vs fat, unhealthy etc.) and not the middle position of this argument? “
I personally will not comment on this one. The only reason being because I want to make this an open forum for you to voice your own opinion on what was said. If I say more I’ll muddle the begining opinion. Ready… GO!

I agree 100%, where is the median in this skinny vs. fat debacle? Nobody sees it and people only say their opinions, usually on how much they weigh. everybody needs to start getting real. Everybody wants to be skinny(healthy) but not anorexic, end of story.

feministblackboard:

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stupidityinmyhead wrote in saying the following:

Women do not need to be SKINNY. But we DO need to be healthy. Articles, media etc. encouraging unhealthy people to stay overweight and unhealthy in order to “be comfortable with themselves” annoy me just as much as the media encouraging weight loss.

Eating healthy does NOT equal a diet where you have to starve yourselves and live on carrots and lettuce and work out for 8 hours a day. It means staying active, resting and eating what you want without completely living on McDonald’s.

Why is it that people only see the two extremes (skinny, ED’s vs fat, unhealthy etc.) and not the middle position of this argument? “

I personally will not comment on this one. The only reason being because I want to make this an open forum for you to voice your own opinion on what was said. If I say more I’ll muddle the begining opinion. Ready… GO!

I agree 100%, where is the median in this skinny vs. fat debacle? Nobody sees it and people only say their opinions, usually on how much they weigh. everybody needs to start getting real. Everybody wants to be skinny(healthy) but not anorexic, end of story.

  1. thisisnotamber reblogged this from feministblackboard
  2. chocolatemuse reblogged this from uberbananarchy
  3. chocolatemuse reblogged this from feministblackboard and added:
    the median in this skinny vs. fat debacle? Nobody sees...say their opinions, usually
  4. loveisfluid reblogged this from feministblackboard and added:
    thing. Yes, eating disorders of any sort are indeed unhealthy. However, it is...anyone’s...
  5. iamtheproblem reblogged this from feministblackboard and added:
    what? we don’t...thin or toned or anything at all. i’ve always been thin or relatively...
  6. irrashunal reblogged this from twerkinfortheweekend and added:
    This. I’ve actually been thinking about this a lot lately since the new labels on cigs came out.. I think too much...
  7. athousandsplendidguns reblogged this from withpoliticsandlove
  8. pssincerelyadventure reblogged this from feministblackboard and added:
    The media makes NOT being skinny not only unhealthy but undesirable and unattractive. What are we if we aren’t...
  9. bzangy reblogged this from tooyoungforthelivingdead
  10. veridiana-al-aire reblogged this from uberbananarchy and added:
    I agree 100%. Being healthy is not what Fat Acceptance is about. Once I read several FA blogs I saw how they believe...
  11. twerkinfortheweekend reblogged this from uberbananarchy and added:
    I don’t know anything about this Topshop model, but the fact stands that attacking people for being thin isn’t the same...
  12. elizabethcarol reblogged this from feministblackboard and added:
    mindset than the weight.
  13. uberbananarchy reblogged this from twerkinfortheweekend and added:
    I think the recent events about the topshop model being accuesed of anorexia show that “concern trolling” can work both...
  14. shikseh reblogged this from twerkinfortheweekend
  15. twerkinfortheweekend reblogged this from uberbananarchy and added:
    ~thinspiration~ and fat pride are two totally different ballparks, though. The fat positivity movement is a response to...
  16. collageofsenselessness reblogged this from feministblackboard
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  18. tooyoungforthelivingdead reblogged this from uberbananarchy and added:
    I’m (as always) basically with Moxy. Be proud of what size you are, and be happy with what size you are, but it’s always...
  19. uberbananarchy reblogged this from feministblackboard and added:
    This. This. This. Fuck “thinspiration”, fuck “fat pride” it’s all about being healthy relative
  20. maxvinyl reblogged this from feministblackboard and added:
    There is no argument. This is just concern-trolling. Who are you to tell a woman that she NEEDS
  21. notreeawaits reblogged this from feministblackboard and added:
    what’s important. And what’s generally attractive.
  22. withpoliticsandlove reblogged this from feministblackboard
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  24. ivegotnotoleranceforignorance reblogged this from feministblackboard and added:
    Okay, I kind of agree...this. I’m totally body positive. I eat
  25. lady-lutra reblogged this from feministblackboard and added:
    This is exactly my position. Unhealthily skinny/fat should...endorsed. It doesn’t mean...
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