tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931597080577373530.post3047437173050079856..comments2024-01-07T01:43:55.486+00:00Comments on Words That Can Only Be Your Own: What it's like being a fat womanjbistheinitialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868282285690501258noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931597080577373530.post-14928222915222707302014-03-23T13:45:14.327+00:002014-03-23T13:45:14.327+00:00For years, this was one of the 'arguments'...For years, this was one of the 'arguments' against criminalising or educating about FGM - that it was a cultural issue and therefore we shouldn't intervene. jbistheinitialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17868282285690501258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931597080577373530.post-56828942884221382722014-03-23T10:08:55.237+00:002014-03-23T10:08:55.237+00:00I love this. I think if it were not for some heal...I love this. I think if it were not for some health issues I would have less of an issue with my weight, though I am by no means big. Though to be honest my parents (due to family health issues so with best of intentions) did often comment on my weight when I was a teenager, and my family are really into food so I have a whole pile of weird little issues which oddly don't make me judge others so much, but REALLY make me judge myself. It is kind of weird. I'm working on it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00414010663277948166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931597080577373530.post-10565044087296287782014-03-22T20:32:09.702+00:002014-03-22T20:32:09.702+00:00Indeed. It's all the more pernicious because i...Indeed. It's all the more pernicious because if you're not white, middle class, wealthy and Western, people from Western countries will sometimes make excuses for holding you to a lower standard than Western men are held. For example, many regard the appalling state of womens' education and treatment in much of the Arab world and southern to south-eastern Asia as somehow a 'cultural issue' and that as Westerners we shouldn't criticise it because we 'don't understand their culture'. Some African leaders have very conveniently cried 'neo imperialism' against Western governments that have criticised their poor records on human rights as a means to silence such criticism - Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia being a prime example. Since when has treating women inhumanely been a rich cultural tradition that should be preserved from the big bad ravages of British values? <br /><br />Too many misogynists hiding behind the fig leaf of multiculturalism!. JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17855035914004095166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931597080577373530.post-31350264349288913842014-03-21T18:35:42.977+00:002014-03-21T18:35:42.977+00:00The fashion industry - dominated by women as it is...The fashion industry - dominated by women as it is - still operates within the patriarchal structure of society. And believe me, gay men can be THE most misogynistic. <br /><br />As for what individual men can do in terms of addressing the patriarchal power structures - be an ally, be a feminist, speak out when you see inequality and raise your daughters and sons to be feminists too. It's important to also realise that many men are disadvantaged and oppressed by patriarchy too, for example pressured to conform to a narrow view of what it means to be a man/be masculine. And all the more so if you're a man who happens to not be white, middle class, wealthy and Western.jbistheinitialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17868282285690501258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931597080577373530.post-86266337987449943002014-03-21T11:38:59.921+00:002014-03-21T11:38:59.921+00:00For an individual man, talking about 'the patr...For an individual man, talking about 'the patriarchy' is particularly bewildering because it's hard to know how to address the issue without appearing to be part of the problem. Also, as much as the fashion industry is misogynistic, it is largely dominated by women and gay men - aren't the Anna Wintours and Giorgio Armanis of this world as much to blame too? JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17855035914004095166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931597080577373530.post-38195433188276040342014-03-18T19:00:20.825+00:002014-03-18T19:00:20.825+00:00Thank you :)
I think the endless body policing an...Thank you :)<br /><br />I think the endless body policing and criticism of women's bodies is about exactly that: rendering women invisible. It is interesting to me (and by interesting, I mean infuriating) that recent fashions for female bodies have been about us taking up as little space as possible in society, about making us small. Well, frankly, fuck that. It's why fat is a feminist issue.jbistheinitialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17868282285690501258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931597080577373530.post-72472303782694184802014-03-18T13:24:37.428+00:002014-03-18T13:24:37.428+00:00Holla at my fellow big-boobed sister! Comic jiggli...Holla at my fellow big-boobed sister! Comic jiggling cannot be avoided haha. I think that this post is brilliant and it makes me want to be more like you. I love how absolutely proud of your beautiful body you are and I wish I could do the same. I also think it's great that you picked up on women having to deal with fat-shaming AND misogyny and the quote about not wanting female bodies is so interesting. I often wonder if the power of women's bodies being able to bear children is far too much of a threat to patriarchy that we need to be rendered invisible by whatever means possible (body criticism is an excellent way to do this). Sorry I'm rambling now, but I loved this post and I've pinned it :) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931597080577373530.post-57127596233523314042014-03-17T16:51:28.122+00:002014-03-17T16:51:28.122+00:00Thanks :)Thanks :)jbistheinitialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17868282285690501258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931597080577373530.post-67235918853990313132014-03-17T09:51:01.422+00:002014-03-17T09:51:01.422+00:00That last line is the best.That last line is the best.Flitterbeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17245078798373902528noreply@blogger.com