The Massive Muse

Redefining Body Image: .

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:51:21 -0800

red3blog:

thisisthinprivilege:

Thin privilege is this series of advertisements encouraging fat people to give up on hobbies and instead use all their spare time striving to be thin.

Fucking hell.

So basically, suppress your interests and loves…

This is infuriating… And also a really bad advertisement campaign. Can you imagine any of the people on the right being happier than the people on the left?

mmmajestic: what is this utter scandal That is some kind of...

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:58:04 -0800

mmmajestic:

what is this utter scandal

That is some kind of sexy right there..

Wouldn’t these look great on me?

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:02:58 -0700

Wouldn’t these look great on me?

tangledupinlace: beelisty: (via abrasive, cryingtotheocean)

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:44:08 -0700

tangledupinlace:

beelisty:

(via abrasive, cryingtotheocean)

tangledupinlace: OH <3 Mermeese! Mermices! Love!

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:45:00 -0700

tangledupinlace:

OH <3

Mermeese! Mermices! Love!

The Mighty If!: On wanting (and deserving) it all

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:41:45 -0700

The Mighty If!: On wanting (and deserving) it all:

therotund:

themightyif:

So, a friend of mine sent me a link last night to a gorgeous wedding photo of a cute couple. Both members of the couple happened to be fat. I went to find the source to check out something else about the picture, but when I found it, I stumbled across the comments, which was probably a bad thing….

I do believe there is an element of construction here, though. We’re taught what to like. I hate to use a food example, but bear with me for a moment. We’ve all got individual tastes. Things we love and things we loathe. And we’ve also got culturally constructed ideas of “the norm” - things we classify as food simply because we are told they are food and things we classify as “gross” because they aren’t part of our cultural conceptualization of food.

Your own personal tastes do not play into whether or not you think beetles are a food source - that’s cultural construction. Beetles may hit every zinger on your tongue, but you (hypothetical you) may never know because “ew, bugs, those aren’t food.”

When we look at bodies that deviate from the mainstream, a lot of our responses are learned responses. Because just as fat people (and other people who deviate from “the norm”) are constantly barraged with messages about what is attractive and what is not… so is everyone else.

When I stopped viewing fat as an automatically terrible thing on my own body, fat people in general got a lot more attractive - I was ALLOWED to view not only myself but everyone else as attractive and so my own tastes broadened - or, not even broadened. I realized what my own tastes were as opposed to what my culturally constructed tastes were.

I’m totally feeling this and the comment by therotund.

Pretty….

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:34:15 -0700

Pretty….

Tell me....

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:23:15 -0700

What do you do to celebrate your body? What do you do to improve your relationship with your body? How do you show your body how much you love it?

samazon: OMG I MUST HAVE THIS! This is beautiful…. I...

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:46:51 -0700

samazon:

OMG I MUST HAVE THIS!

This is beautiful…. I wonder if I can have one made of my body….

tangledupinlace: Seeking position as a full time cherub Please...

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:10:24 -0700

tangledupinlace:

Seeking position as a full time cherub

Please let me know if I can send you my resume’. Will pay headhunter’s fee in dry humping and reassuring cooing

I need one of these…. I’d pay union wages as well as lots of fresh strawberries and pretty hand made outfits….

heyfatchick: chubbycartwheels: The hubs and I at a BBW bash...

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:06:12 -0700

heyfatchick:

chubbycartwheels:

The hubs and I at a BBW bash after party. The theme was Rockstar so who better to go as than Ziggy and Joan.

AMAZING.

This picture is wicked.

fuckmemilo: delisubthefemmecub: For me, femme is about...

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:15:21 -0700

fuckmemilo:

delisubthefemmecub:

For me, femme is about healing

it is about the rituals of adornment that I use to calm my anxiety, and quell my tears after days where transphobia slips under my skin like stubborn splinters

it is about reaching across time, bridging the distance between the man I am and the girl I was.

it is about finding that girl in the recesses of my heart, holding him in my arms, and saying “it will be okay, we made it out alive.”

it is about finding a way to be a boy that doesn’t hurt.

it is about nurturing all the femme parts of myself that I suffocated, just so the boy part of myself might be visible to other people.

For me, femme is about resistance

it is about refusing to believe that there is a right way to be a man

it is about glitter armor and gestural fierceness coating my spirit so that I might just be strong enough to survive

it is about reclaiming and flaunting all of the parts of my femininity that have been used to say that the sexual assaults were my fault

For me, femme is about healing, resistance, survival.

Somedays, femme is all I have.

“For me, femme is about resistance”

“it is about refusing to believe that there is a right way to be a man”

“it is about reclaiming and flaunting all of the parts of my femininity that have been used to say that the sexual assaults were my fault”

For real. I mean, everything you said. but those things in particular. UNF.

fuckyeahethnicwomen: via Emily Zuri What a fucking gorgeous...

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:09:48 -0700

fuckyeahethnicwomen:

via Emily Zuri

What a fucking gorgeous woman.

Loving your body

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:32:45 -0700

However you choose to love your body or improve your relationship with your body is fucking legit.

Weight-loss surgery and body shaming

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:17:23 -0700

Although weight-loss surgery is dangerous, I feel that it is really inappropriate to bash or ostracize people who have chosen this course of action. There is an inordinate amount of body shaming from the fat acceptance community toward people who have chosen weight-loss surgery for their various reasons. It is legitimate for people to have their own thoughts and reasons for choosing weight-loss surgery and you may not understand or agree with them. That doesn’t give you the right to treat people poorly. Body acceptance should include all bodies, no matter their scars or modifications. The end.

loving your body does not mean managing your body so that it maintains a certain level of desirability. loving your body means recognizing that your body's value does not lie in it's similarities to images in magazines. loving your body means that it's desirability is not it's purpose. beauty is not something that can be measured.

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:44:11 -0700

surlytemple:

IMPORTANT

fucking vital

pastthestorm: afrotitty: gabifresh: lagrandefille: oldfamilia...

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:29:49 -0700

pastthestorm:

afrotitty:

gabifresh:

lagrandefille:

oldfamiliarway:

riotsnotdiets:

fattiesinlove:

themightynarwhal:

26, 230, 38DD

19, 215, 40E

25, 260, 42DD

growing up my grandpa always said that a lady doesn’t put her elbows on the table, either. which i am also doing right now.

27, 300ish, 48D

23, 260lbs, 42DD

how fucking dumb. 24, 235, 38G :D

24, 320lbs, 44DDD <3 <3 <3

[Graphic reads “The #11 rule of a lady: never reveal your age, weight, or bra size.]

22. 212. 40C/38D.

26, 290, 44F

"I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of..."

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:09:07 -0700

“I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.”

- Esperanza Spalding (via crankyskirt)

Tangled Up In Lace: Dear Good Fatties:

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:06:09 -0700

Tangled Up In Lace: Dear Good Fatties::

sharpclause:

The problem with “I am a healthy fat person who is here to refute your logic” is that you don’t break the paradigm of health supremicists. You redraw that line between the deserving and the undeserving, only this time instead of being between thin and fat, it is between healthy…

This is a really good point and something I have been thinking about quite a lot.

Tiger stripes

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:15:06 -0700

Every moment I walk down the street, people see me. I am a brightly colored beacon of a truth they want to deny. I chose this path, forcing people to see me instead of allowing myself to remain invisible. Now, I’m trying to find my voice instead of allowing myself to remain silent. But, there is pain in this path and sometimes it is overwhelming. I’m finding my voice between the sobs and within the screams of my impotent rage. My tears swell and ebb as I struggle to find the strength to stand up alone. But, when I find my footing, I am strong, immovable, fierce. I roar with a power that seeks to change the world. And in my struggles, I see myself change. I see the fury in my rasping breath, the power in my sexual thighs, the sensuality of my nurturing breasts. My stretch marks are my stripes and this tiger has earned every one. Yes, sometimes the pain brings me to my knees. Sometimes I crumble under the thought of how much stands against me. But I am strong. And my heart sings a battle cry. And maybe someday it won’t be the choice between being invisible and silent or being a symbol, a pennant, a warrior. Maybe someday I will be free to be me alone, not judged by the size and shape of my body, but free to be judged by the truth of myself. I am willing to fight for that. I will always find the strength to stand.