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From the feminist perspective, there's a double standard regarding the extent to which men and women are judged on their appearance. For a woman, it's much more shameful to be perceived as unattractive because in our society a woman's value is more dependent on their looks than a man's. Feminism attempts to combat this in a variety of ways, one being to try to detach one's personal perception of one's own beauty from that of society, thereby escaping negative judgement.

Fat is probably the single most important factor contributing to a woman being seen as unattractive, therefore fat has become a feminist issue. There's even a book with that exact title - Fat Is A Feminist Issue (which I haven't read).

Some feminists see it in terms of a patriarchal society requiring women to be 'less' than men in all sorts of ways - take up less space, make less noise, etc. The poetry slam, Shrinking Women, approaches the issue from this stance.

EDIT:
Having done a little more reading, I was guilty of oversimplifying.

Susie Orbach's Fat is a Feminist Issue (1978) attempts to combat the problem of the cycle of compulsive over-eating followed by unhealthy crash dieting. Orbach identifies a variety of reasons for over-eating.

>"For many women, compulsive eating and being fat have become one way to avoid being marketed or seen as the ideal woman," she writes. In other words, what your fat says about you, is: "Screw you!" "Fat expresses a rebellion against the powerlessness of the woman," says Orbach.

>She postulates that women get fat because it means they will be taken more "seriously in their working lives outside the home". If they lose weight, they "find themselves being treated frivolously by their male colleagues". Others do it to de-sexualise themselves; others to avoid competition with other women; others because of their mother's own bonkers relationship with food.

>Orbach argues that while fat women may think that they are desperate to lose weight, they subconsciously harbour the "desire to get fat". Whether they know it or not, they enjoy the topsy-turvy advantages that their layers of fat offer them.

Source

Orbach helped create the site AnyBody, which promotes body acceptance.

Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth (1991), a classic of third-wave feminism, argues that the real purpose of society's focus on female beauty is to control and limit women, and that, to free women, standards of female beauty should be broadened.

>A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

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>Female thinness and youth are not in themselves next to godliness in this culture. Society really doesn’t care about women’s appearance per se. What genuinely matters is that women remain willing to let others tell them what they can and cannot have. Women are watched, in other words, not to make sure that they will “be good,” but to make sure that they will know they are being watched.

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>We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe we must somehow earn good erotic care; we always deserved it.

>Femaleness and its sexuality are beautiful. Women have long secretly suspected as much. In that sexuality, women are physically beautiful already; superb; breathtaking.

>Many, many men see this way too. A man who wants to define himself as a real lover of women admires what shows of her past on a woman's face, before she ever saw him, and the adventures and stresses that her body has undergone, the scars of trauma, the changes of childbirth, her distinguishing characteristics, the light is her expression. The number of men who already see in this way is far greater than the arbiters of mass culture would lead us to believe, since the story they need to tell ends with the opposite moral.

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>Let's be shameless. Be greedy. Pursue pleasure. Avoid pain. Wear and touch and eat and drink what we feel like. Tolerate other women's choices. Seek out the sex we want and fight fiercely against the sex we do not want. Choose our own causes And once we break through and change the rules so our sense of our own beauty cannot be shaken, sing that beauty and dress it up and flaunt it and revel in it.

Obviously Wolf's "Be greedy" and "eat and drink what we feel like" go pretty strongly against the ethos of /r/fatpeoplehate!

My perception is that Orbach's theories about the reasons for over-eating are fairly idiosyncratic, and not mainstream within feminism, however the notion of body acceptance - promoted by both Orbach and Wolf - is, as are many of the other ideas in The Beauty Myth.

Here's the full recipe I use, I just linked to a similar one earlier because I was on my phone. This makes about 6 meal-sized bowls. Delicious, low calorie, highly nutritious. And about $0.75 a bowl. Oh it's sooooo hard to make cheap, healthy food. ;)


Syrian red lentil soup

• 2 1/2 cups red lentils
  
• 10 cups water
  
• 2 1/2 tsp salt
  
  
• 1 onion, finely chopped
  
• 6 cloves garlic, pressed
  
• 1 Tbsp coriander
  
• 1 Tbsp cumin
  
  
• 1 small handful fresh cilantro, chopped
  
• 1 large handful fresh parsley, chopped
  
  
• Lemon wedges
  
  

1. Wash lentils thoroughly. Boil for 45 minutes with 10 cups water and salt.
   
   
2. Fry onion in nonstick pan until soft (don't brown). Add garlic and spices and fry until fragrant. Add spice mixture to lentils, deglaze pan with 1/2 cup water and add to lentils.
   
   
3. Simmer 15 minutes, then add fresh herbs. Simmer another 5 minutes and then serve with lemon wedge on side.
   
   Source: http://www.amazon.ca/Bean-By-Cookbook-Recipes-Savory/dp/0761132414
   
   This book is unreal if you like beans.

Dude, I envy you. Just a word to the wise; if you or your employer hasn't already bought one, you might want to invest in a camera like this. The security guys at work use these all the time (at least I think this the right model) and its saved our butts several times. Then again, if you've already got something like this, disregard what I said and enjoy the new gig.

Dunno what you guys got for scales but I ended up with a really nice one off Amazon for pretty cheap. It's accurate and it adds some much needed class to the shitroom.

This one I just found on Amazon, depending on the size, can only support up to 375 pounds.

Now, I don't really know anything, but I'm assuming that trampoline has been outside in the elements for a few years. That, along with it being used many times, would make it pretty easy for someone as heavy as the lady in the gif, who probably weighs around 300 pounds, to bounce rip right through it.

I use the Scosche Rhythm+ HRM along an App called iCardio/digifit on my phone.

The app has you put in all your stats height, weight, sex, age, etc and it will continuously monitor your heart rate and give you an accurate indication on how many calories you burn for your workout.

One nice feature is that you can sync the app with Myfitness Pal and it will automatically upload your workout.

One con is that you have to purchase the upgraded version to get it to work with a HRM.

Amazon has the same line, I bought this one and their sizing is pretty accurate even though the reviews claim that they run "2 sizes too small". I listened to the reviews and bought a US Large because I need a small, it came in and it's bigger than I expected. It's too much of a hassle to return it so I'm washing it as I type and hoping it shrinks. So...

TL;DR: order 1 size bigger than what you normally wear.

Her justification for her size is that she makes a better body pillow. What kind of ambition is that? It's like she's auditioning to be the female version of this.

My Great Big Mamma
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Skinny Bitch or perhaps a textbook.

A diet journal.

Add a note: "This isn't the gift you want, but it's the gift you need."

You're not joking, I found one. http://www.amazon.com/Living-XL-91021179-Bottom-Buddy/dp/B000G39ZIY

Warning, Amazon link. Clicking this link may make Amazon think you are morbidly obese and change your product recommnedations to god knows what. Might actually be kind of funny. Beware.

I want to gold this comment so hard.

Society full of grown children masquerading as adults.

I generally don't take people seriously who wear these hats, which mostly seem to be ignorant hipsters and their ilk.

There was a Fit2Fat post here the other day where it showed a guys progression, and in one picture he is wearing that hat sitting in a shopping cart sitting in a child like pose. That seemed to be the nail in his "giving up on life" coffin.

Society full of grown children, masquerading as adults.

I was kidding, here's your COUCHMASTER

For under-$100 (read: decent gym earbuds), get these.

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My gym buddies and I do, we use this book.

Huh? I've seen this picture somewhere before...

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