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“Adjust your preferences until they include me and other fat people!! Or else I’m going to be bitter and snarky about it on Tumblr!”

-be me

i'm such a jaded bitch at this point in my life bc of the constant grinding whine of fatphobia in a wide variety of ways but i've most recently noticed it in the way i consume art on the internet. i'll see a piece of art i like but the main subject is a blandly sexy thin woman with no otherwise remarkable traits and it'll bring the rest of the piece down for me. i'll see fanart of a fat character portrayed just as stick thin as the rest of the cast and i'll never seek out that person's fanart again. i'll follow an artist whose work i think is awesome, but after following them for a few weeks realize that the only figures they feature are thin/slim thick/Tiny Waist Fat Tits Thick Ass sexualized women and i'll have to unfollow them. and sure, not everyone is educated in this realm and to expect that would be to dig your own grave of disappointment. but at a certain point once you've had your eyes opened to it it's hard to fathom how others don't see it, or how they can manage to turn a blind eye. i've seen artists fight to the dying breath to defend their exclusively skinny subject matter, "it's my style", "you're just hating #blocked", "i'm skinny so im just drawing my experience so actually you're bodyshaming me," that type of exhausting waffling. and i just don't get it, man. why would you as an artist just refuse to draw a wider variety of human figures? why would you stunt your own growth? don't you get bored making the same thing over and over again? don't you want to push yourself, push any boundary even just a little?? aren't you fucking embarrassed that your portfolio is so narrow in scope???

What’s ironic is that I bet you don’t ask these questions to artists who draw nothing but fat people.

Theres a subreddit for girls who are size xxs and the shit they complain about are such non issues lol like

Just reblogged a post about how being fat is normal and some of the comments pissed me off so much I had to make my own post. No, you dipshit, modern population isn't fat because we are overating "ultra-processed" food. We are fat because we are not constantly starving anymore. Your ancestors weren't "healthy", they were fucking malnourished because they ate 200 calories worth of food while doing heavy labour for 12 hours every day. Meanwhile all the people like nobles, merchants, priests and successful tradesmen, people who had money and could afford to just buy food? Most of them were fucking fat. There's a reason that we have a stereotype for all of these categories of people being fat. Because if you can actually eat and not have to ration out a sack of grain to last 5 months you gain weight.