Name: The Funny Thing About... being fat | Episode 2 | Sofie Hagen | BBC Ideas
Uploaded: 2020-04-23T04:37:13.000Z
Duration: 3 min 46 s
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it's just that it's never women shouting from cars.

Or, "Where did you get those glasses? They really suit your face!"

that anytime a van blasting loud music through open windows passes,

Here's a public service announcement on behalf of all fat people.

Most of us actually have some err... (fog horn noise) at home.

At the moment it seems as if body positivity is the new thing.

white feminine cis women showing that actually, if they try real hard,

Don't get me wrong, society has made it very clear that no-one

fat or thin should be happy with their bodies.

But the people who are the most oppressed in society

like actually fat people, black people and people of colour,

queer people, trans people, Muslims, people with disabilities

are not at all represented in the body positivity movement.

and strap in because this is excellent information.

In 1967 as a lot of social movements called for justice,

a "Fat-In" was staged at Central Park in New York.

500 fat people gathered to eat ice cream and burn diet books,

which, FYI, I will now be doing every Sunday in Hyde Park - join me.

NAAFA, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance

was founded in America in 1969 by Bill Fabrey,

in response to discrimination against his wife.

#relationshipgoals The next time someone is rude to you,

if your partner doesn't start a social movement...

In 1973, two people called Judy Freespirit and Aldebaran wrote:

which called for fat people to have equal rights.

Declared that the diet industry was the enemy and stated that they were

fully entitled to human respect and recognition.

There were a lot of points in the manifesto

love your curves or #yourbodyisbeautiful.

Because it doesn't matter how much I love my curves,

I will still be discriminated against on a daily basis

anywhere that doesn't have flowers on it.

And I will still have men shout at me from cars.

Fat has been made into body, to make it more palatable.

And liberation has been made into positivity,

to remove all accountability from the perpetrators.

Body positivity is just another way of asking women to smile.

Thankfully, women love being asked to smile.

women love having autonomy over their own bodies.

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The Funny Thing About... being fat | Episode 2 | Sofie Hagen | BBC Ideas

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