can we all agree that being overdressed is a myth made up by boring stuffy people who are too worried about other peopleâs lives and donât want you to have fun
conversely, can we all agree that being underdressed is a myth made up by stuffy classist people who are too worried about other peopleâs lives and donât want you to be comfortable or happy
Hey have you heard of this manga? It’s about this guy who kind of isn’t good at anything, and isn’t very interesting or likeable, and looks really boring also. But get this: there’s this girl, and she actually has to take care of him all the time, but she doesn’t feel bad about this at all, and has huge boobs. The problem is that she likes taking care of him so much, the guy thinks it’s kind of embarrassing. Fucked up, right? Well. Thanks for listening. * leaves police station * * is immediately hit by a fire truck * * the rats make a home of my corpse *
Is there a word for that like, âbright darknessâ you get in winter?? When itâs been snowing or itâs supposed to snow past sunset and the sky isnât Dark Enough. One of my favorite things
Thanks to @raindropwindow and a handful of articles, itâs called snow albedo, skyglow, snowglow, or just light scattering! Itâs the result of moon- or artificial light reflecting off ground snow, low clouds, or ice crystals.
The first shows a photograph outside a window with a cat in front of the window, with snow covered tables and chars outside, the lighting yellow and not as dark as it should b at night.
The second shows a snow covered forest, with the sky dark grey.
The third image has been removed for copyright violation.
The last photo shows a snow covered house with lights on in the windows.
I love when people use bigotry in their progressive views. People who claim to be progressive constantly use fatness as a metaphor for evil and greed. Every single villain in a political comic like this gets portrayed as a fat person because âprogressiveâ people could not give less of a shit about being hypocritical fatphobes. Maybe people who think equality is good should ACTUALLY care about equality by not using fat bodies as a prop for their mockery and entertainment. Fuck this artist and the countless âprogressiveâ people just like them. My oppressed fat body is not your tool.
Non-evil fat people exist. Non-evil patriots exist. Nice people with full beards exist. Men are not intrinsically evil.
The fact that the right-wing nuts that dabble in the portrayed cognitive dissonance are predominately heavy-set, flag-toting, big-bearded men is not fatphobia. They are recognizable traits that the average alt-right nut exhibits!
Itâs a political comic. These are easily identifiable caricatures.
Give me statistics that show the majority of conservatives are fat and that you donât just believe that because of being a fatphobic bigot, fucker. âEasily identifiable caricaturesâ donât mean shit when they further stigmatize and oppress a group, especially when the comic would have STILL been understood with just the personâs words, let alone the hat and shirt. The artist didnât even make any of the four other characters fat, and they did that on purpose to use thinness as a symbol for purity, goodness, and morality. Also, if you make a political comic to help end oppression, YOU HAVE FUCKING FAILED IF YOUR COMIC FURTHER OPPRESSES PEOPLE. HOW THE FUCK DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT?! You just want an excuse to use fat people as your entertainment and punching bag. Fuck that and fuck you.
My body is NOT your visual metaphor, asshat.
I grew up in the most conservative precinct in my state. Are you doubting my lived experiences? Or do we want to take a sampling of data?
Here is a picture from NPR of rioters arrested in relation to the January 6th insurrection. The modal face is white, male, and heavy-set. In fact, there are some faces that could have been direct inspiration from the comic! Speaking of inspiration, how do you know that these depictions arenât inspired by actual people from the artistâs actual life?
If you think a comic oppresses people, then you need to go outside and talk to actual human beings instead of raging at a screen.
Iâll give you some free armchair psychology: It seems to me that you suffer from some hatred of your physical form, and, rather than accepting yourself, youâve decided to project your hatred onto benign comics trying to generally advocate for liberation.
Personally speaking, I think fat people deserve a better mouthpiece than you. Youâre alienating people who would be your ally because of a hatred that YOU have assigned to them. These are people who would have to make 0 compromises to align themselves with the ideology that fat people deserve better/more nuanced representation. Screaming bigotry at them for making a parallel point that isnât precisely morally pure isnât how the world works. Iâm not saying itâs your job to convince people that fat people deserve to be treated humanely; Iâm saying itâs your job not to be such a fucking lunatic that it scares away people who do.
Iâm not responding to a post that is such obvious horseshit that by the time I finished my essay-long reply, I would have to go back and add APA in-text citations. I do enough papers and APA formatting for my social work masterâs degree that has taught me more about oppression and society than you have âlearnedâ in your entire life. Your response is that of a pathetic bigot who thinks theyâre entitled to everything they want, including when what they want is to shove oppressed groups into the dirt. Your claims are fucking laughable, and your âevidenceâ is pitiful. To add sanism to your already bigoted stain on humanity, I didnât think I could respect you any less, but you love disproving the odds. Go back to r/fatlogic where you came from, you piece of shit.
Hey btw of the 28 people in the image they used about 15 of them appear to be visibly thin in the shots compiled (from what I can tell from the shoulders up, which is all we see). Thatâs over half. Most of the others appear to be midsized and only a few are visibly undeniably fat. So the whole âright wingers are fatâ thing is a lot of bs. Right wingers look the same as everyone else but with worse fashion choices. Itâs no different than the body diversity youâd see walking into any given public space. Coincidentally, right wingers also portray leftists as being fat when painting them in a negative light. How peculiar. I wonder why. /s
Your tags were too important to not include
You know whatâs funny? There are plenty of right-wing Americans who idealize r**sia for âbold anti-woke stancesâ or whatever. And given that Twitter loves promoting inflammatory tweets, I had to see, with my own two eyes, how one such right-winger dreamily said, qrt-ing a photo of a rally with a predominantly thin crowd, that in this âanti-woke paradiseâ, âthere are no fat peopleâ. Cue me, a fat queer r***ian who will have to stay in the closet for most of their life, doing a Blinking Man Dot Gif.
Progressives portray people like me as caricatures of raging bigots. Yet, just as not-gray-politics said, bigots also portray people like me as caricatures of âblue hair and pronounsâ, and assume that in their perfect conservative world, no people like me will exist. Fatness is a completely neutral body characteristic, yet both sides rush to assign moral subtext to it. Does make you wonder, doesnât it.
Fucking thank you for this, both of you. I didnât have the emotional energy to deal with that fatphobe after doing so with a thousand fatphobes before them and a thousand more fatphobes to come. Now that you both have done the bulk of the dissection for me, probably the one additional point I want to mention is how that fatphobe took a picture of the individuals arrested and used that to say that the vast majority of people at the riot were fat. Not only is there no proof that the January 6th riot is a perfect sample of the populations who participate in conservative bigotry, but the photos werenât even representative of the people at the riot. These were just the people who got arrested, and that is not an accurate sample of the group being talked about. Any researcher would have rolled their eyes at that fatphobeâs pitiful attempt at âevidence.â Showing a group of photos of a highly specific section of the population that is already just a section of the entire population that fatphobe was talking about, how the hell does that prove anything?? I specifically asked for statistics for a reason. And the whole âI grew up there, youâre doubting my lived experiences?â is just the correlation equals causation fallacy dressed up in progressive-sounding language with a heaping side of fatphobia. I donât doubt that fatphobe mostly saw fat people. When you hate fat people and think weâre inferior, youâre going to pay a lot of attention to any fat person you see. The irony is that the correlation equals causation fallacy is constantly weaponized against fat people, so that guy pretending to care about us fatties while brandishing that logical fallacy like itâs a royal flush at the end of a game of poker is the perfect symbolism for how garbage that fatphobeâs views are.
I think even the basic premise of âbut this is what the average bigot looks like!â is gross when you choose specific bodily characteristics to illustrate that, when in reality a bigot can look like anyone, and there are ways to do an identifiable caricature that doesnât rely on equating bodily characteristics with badness. There are a lot of fat people in the other demographics too, so why arenât they represented? Why are all the âgoodâ people thin and pretty in contrast to the bigot?
You could have drawn any kind of person in a maga hat and gotten the point across but itâs telling that the *only* person in that comic who is fat, very hairy, and generally unkempt is the bad one. If one of the âgoodâ people had also been fat and hairy, it wouldnât have been a problem, but when you choose to present *all* the good people as thin and âwell-groomedâ and the *one* bad person as fat and âsloppyâ, you are in fact leaning into fatphobic stereotypes of fat=ugly=bad/stupid/lazy to reinforce your point.
As already mentioned, when bigots make comics about leftists, they tend to use a fat, hairy, and generally unkempt person as an identifiable caricature too. Funny that.
so many social justicey arguments really do seem like they were invented in a lab to be a saw trap for people with obsessive compulsive tendencies
one of the examples i was thinking of is the idea you are Morally Obligated to tag any potential triggers, despite that being a category that theoretically includes literally everything. maybe the implication/way most people interpret it is âif you have a decent following, its best practice to tag common ones plus requests from followersâ but i dont think it should be difficult to understand why trying to figure out which ones people will get mad at you about is a saw trap. esp on platforms more like twitter where providing content warnings in the first place is a logistical nightmare
Fatness: *literally connected to poverty to the point that so many poor and working class people are fat, and on top of that fat people even experience a wage gap and are not paid as much for the same work as their thin peers*
Society: Let’s portray greed, capitalism, corporations, CEOs, and anyone with an ounce of power (especially power over the working class) as fat! :)
Can self-proclaimed progressive people stop using fat bodies as “necessary” collateral damage in the fight for equality?
I fucking see that shit when you call for defunding or abolishing police while portraying your idea of a disgusting police officer as a fat man stuffing his face with donuts while you call that man a pig.
I see that shit when you make political cartoons about corrupt CEOs and greedy politicians and purposefully choose to draw those characters fat.
I see it when you portray your stereotypical republican as a bigoted fat person
I see it when you make the bigoted villains in your movies fat while simultaneously not having a single other fat character in the film.
You claim to want equality? Then fucking act like it. Fat bodies should not be sacrificed so you can have a laugh or connect morality to our appearance for an easy metaphor. You care about literally everyone else who is marginalized. You would never even DREAM of vilifying the bodies of other oppressed groups. To be honest, your hypocrisy is worse than the massive hypocrisy from republicans.
I have never understood the stereotype of the fat cop, in my mind its what they DO that is so much worse than their lazyness or greed (which are pretty bad connotations to go along with fatness but such is society) I call cops pigs not because they are fat but because they deserve to be rolled around in mud and filth.
The reason why the stereotypical bad police officer is a fat man is very blatant fatphobia. It’s not just rooted in people having disgust for fat bodies. If you’ve ever noticed, fat people are used whenever someone creates a character in power who is unfit for that power. The fat police man, the fat king, the fat politician, the mean fat teacher, the fat principal, the fat boss, the fat landlord. It’s because society uses fatness as a visual indicator of corruption, greed, stupidity, you name it. This is why there are extremely few fat characters in the show Miraculous Ladybug, but the corrupt mayor and stupid police man characters in the show? Fat. Whenever someone wants the audience to know that the character is undeserving of power, they give the character a fat body. Because of all of this, I’m very skeptical of people who call police “pigs” since it’s an insult extremely associated with fatness and there are so many other insults out there that can be used instead.
We must not despair as long as we are here, we can teach the children about the ancient texts
Okay hold on but we canât talk about Dragostea Din Tei without talking about Gary Brolsma. Yes, thereâs a link above but that doesnât really explain just how formative a video this was in the relatively early days of the internet.
âThe Numa Numa Danceâ was posted in December 2004 to Newgrounds.com and was one of the first viral videos.
Estimates on how many times this video has been viewed run somewhere around ž of a billion views.
News articles at the time talked about how this video by itself âjustified the existence of webcams.â (Though I think the reason for the first webcam was reason enough.)
Letâs go back to the view count, though. If one person wanted to watch the Numa Numa Dance video approximately as many times as it has been watched in the past 19 years, and finish up the watching this year, they would have had to start roughly during the Battle of Piraeus in 403 BCE.
Yeah.
Humanity has, collectively, spent about 2426 years watching Gary Brolsma joyfully dance to Dragostea Din Tei.
The song charted on its own, donât get me wrong. Itâs still something like the 4th best-selling single of all time in France and the most successful Romanian-language pop song of all time. But its memetic longevity? There you canât skip over âthe Numa Numa Dance.â That is the Deep Memetic Magic of long ago.
