Noor Al-Sibai: White, Fat Feminist Pens Hilarious Screeds About Being "Death Fat"
02-21-2014, 04:07 AM
Oh, boy. Meet this self-identified, "hot, empowered, independent woman:"
She penned a piece about 11 months ago about "Fat Girl 101."
So how far down the self-absorbed rabbit hole can a white feminist go?
Okay, superlatives like "hot" and "smart" and "being a baller" aren't determined by your own perception of said superlatives, but determined by how other's perceive your attributes or actions.
This is interesting and possibly revealing, as one needs to come to understand they are an alcoholic as a precondition for change. While obviously a therapist will note her clear narcissism, she is addicted to food, but also addicted to social approval. This woman obsesses about what other's think about her, so by "accepting" her fatness, she is trying to consciously ignore social perception of as overweight, unattractive and having poor self-esteem/self-control.
Okay, here's the deal. The key takeaway here is that our society doesn't provide people the means and space to develop real, solid identities. She blames society for fat-shaming her, but her deep-seated shame (not guilt) is telling of a person with incredibly poor self-esteem. This woman admits it is more likely that she can change the entire world around her than herself. The only person in the entire universE she has sole control over. Oh wait, she would claim the heteroracist patriarchy prevents her from "owning her body." Nice, way to claim the patriarchy prevents you from ownership of your body. So, you get intensely fat-shamed but it doesn't prevent you from ordering an extra-large meat lover's from Papa Johns? Hmm, interesting.
She goes on to an obligatory paragraph exhorting how dangerous chubby chasers are. Can't be a feminist piece without reminding women how men are their class enemy. Stay classy, bitch.
She has other hilarious posts. Being fat and wearing crop-tops.
Good fucking God, this broad drops dumb-ass comments all over her screeds:
On it's face:
On the "stereotype" fat women are desperate:
So beauty standards violently oppress her and "limits the nature of heterosexuality." But....she has a highly satisfying sex life that destroys the "stereotype" that fat women aren't considered as attractive?
Did you hear that fellas? Going paleo and lifting weights has no effect on the body. Apparently, MikeCF was born jacked. Once again,
Her erudition and serious interests knows no bounds. She has penned articles about being a One Direction fan as a fat feminist and how to deal with rejection as a feminist.
She penned a piece about 11 months ago about "Fat Girl 101."
So how far down the self-absorbed rabbit hole can a white feminist go?
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Since then, I’ve learned quite a lot about what it means to be a hot, unapologetic fat girl in a society that makes money off demeaning and shaming girls like me. Here are some of the biggest (pun intended) lessons I’ve learned:
Okay, superlatives like "hot" and "smart" and "being a baller" aren't determined by your own perception of said superlatives, but determined by how other's perceive your attributes or actions.
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Two distinctions are used to describe the “type” of fat a person is within their rhetoric: small fat, or someone who has definitely been called fat as an insult and has dealt with discrimination for being “fat,” “chubby,” “big,” etc.; and death fat, or those categorized as “morbidly obese” by the medical industry using the Body Mass Index (trigger warning for those who decide to google “death fat definition” — the results redirect to a lot of medical websites talking about “the dangers of obesity.”)
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Coming to the realization that one is fat, that being called fat is OK, and being fat is attractive and the rest of the affirmations fat activists use when they first find fat positivity, is great. It’s extremely validating to look at yourself in the mirror and see yourself as fat and not see that as an ugly, unattractive and unworthy human looking back at you.
This is interesting and possibly revealing, as one needs to come to understand they are an alcoholic as a precondition for change. While obviously a therapist will note her clear narcissism, she is addicted to food, but also addicted to social approval. This woman obsesses about what other's think about her, so by "accepting" her fatness, she is trying to consciously ignore social perception of as overweight, unattractive and having poor self-esteem/self-control.
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The lesson can’t be stressed enough: one individual reclaiming the term “fat” does not give them the right to call anyone else that unless they know that that person identifies with the term and has a fairly stable relationship with using that term to describe themselves.
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The lesson here is simple in theory and surprisingly difficult in practice: The only time it’s OK to call someone else fat is if you know that they have reclaimed the term for themselves, and even then, it’s problematic, because even the most fat-posi folks out there have days when they feel fat in a bad way. Don’t ask people “do you identify as fat?” — if they don’t, you are reminding them of something that is used as a tool of dehumanization and psychological pain. Don’t ever assume someone identifies as “fat,” no matter how you perceive their size or confidence level. What I’m basically getting as it that reclaiming “fat” is highly personal and that everyone’s journey is very different and making assumptions about how other people identify is always erroneous. That’s Identity Politics 101!
Okay, here's the deal. The key takeaway here is that our society doesn't provide people the means and space to develop real, solid identities. She blames society for fat-shaming her, but her deep-seated shame (not guilt) is telling of a person with incredibly poor self-esteem. This woman admits it is more likely that she can change the entire world around her than herself. The only person in the entire universE she has sole control over. Oh wait, she would claim the heteroracist patriarchy prevents her from "owning her body." Nice, way to claim the patriarchy prevents you from ownership of your body. So, you get intensely fat-shamed but it doesn't prevent you from ordering an extra-large meat lover's from Papa Johns? Hmm, interesting.
She goes on to an obligatory paragraph exhorting how dangerous chubby chasers are. Can't be a feminist piece without reminding women how men are their class enemy. Stay classy, bitch.
She has other hilarious posts. Being fat and wearing crop-tops.
Good fucking God, this broad drops dumb-ass comments all over her screeds:
On it's face:
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Now, years and loads of feminist sex encounters later
On the "stereotype" fat women are desperate:
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My sex life and the sex lives of countless fat hotties that I know constitute the living proof that that stereotype is just patently false
So beauty standards violently oppress her and "limits the nature of heterosexuality." But....she has a highly satisfying sex life that destroys the "stereotype" that fat women aren't considered as attractive?
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And the fact remains: even if I work out all the time and only eat the healthiest foods, I am still going to be fat/curvy/thick/voluptuous/whatever because that’s how my body is.
Did you hear that fellas? Going paleo and lifting weights has no effect on the body. Apparently, MikeCF was born jacked. Once again,
Her erudition and serious interests knows no bounds. She has penned articles about being a One Direction fan as a fat feminist and how to deal with rejection as a feminist.