Musings from the Soapbox

Fat Rant 3 : Staircase Wit (by Joy Nash)

My favorite Fat Rant<3

iridessence:

pavrova:

evangelala:

itsgrrrlgerm:

iridessence:

Saw this shit on karmaloop. They don’t carry women’s clothing in my size but I was going to shop in the menswear for tee shirts when I saw this shirt first. Safe to say they won’t be getting my money.

GROSS. Fuck the entire company…. and I know models are hard up for cash at time and it is probably privileged of me to say morals over money because I dont know her life….. but I bet at some point someone has tried to shame her with that word. Way to have some sisterhood.

ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT. GET THEM TO CEASE PRODUCTION OF THIS SHIRT. YOU CAN CONTACT THEM HERE. COMPLAIN YOUR LITTLE HEARTS OUT!

I for one have just sent them a strongly-worded email and I hope you do the same! End this slut-shaming and internalised misogyny!

I would definitely wear this shirt. Not even trying to be funny, I would.

And I would definitely accidentally spill a cup of bleach on you.

Update!! I just received this reply:

“Dear Veronica,

Thank you for your email and for bringing this to our attention. We agree with you. The brand that makes this shirt was trying to be ironic, but they didn’t pull it off very well. 

This is a brand from our marketplace (Kazbah), so we do not select the items they post to sell, but we can remove them from the site, which we will do.

Mike, can you please take care of this right away?

Thanks,
Dina”

So, assuming Mike does his job this should be down soon. How do you like that - actual results! ( I’m a little shocked, in case you can’t tell, in a very pleasant way:) )

iridessence:

pavrova:

evangelala:

itsgrrrlgerm:

iridessence:

Saw this shit on karmaloop. They don’t carry women’s clothing in my size but I was going to shop in the menswear for tee shirts when I saw this shirt first. Safe to say they won’t be getting my money.

GROSS. Fuck the entire company…. and I know models are hard up for cash at time and it is probably privileged of me to say morals over money because I dont know her life….. but I bet at some point someone has tried to shame her with that word. Way to have some sisterhood.

ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT. GET THEM TO CEASE PRODUCTION OF THIS SHIRT. YOU CAN CONTACT THEM HERE. COMPLAIN YOUR LITTLE HEARTS OUT!

I for one have just sent them a strongly-worded email and I hope you do the same! End this slut-shaming and internalised misogyny!

I would definitely wear this shirt. Not even trying to be funny, I would.

And I would definitely accidentally spill a cup of bleach on you.

“Hi,

I’ve just seen your I HATE SLUTS crop tank and I cannot begin to tell you how disgusted I am. As though there isn’t enough shaming of women for their sexuality in society, now women who have, or are perceived to have, a lot of sex deserve to be hated?!?! By manufacturing these tops you are actively contributing to a society that uses fear, ridicule, shame and violence (to name a few) to control women, their bodies and sexuality. Hatred is a strong emotion, and for many barely removed from violence at all. Congratulations on your part in making this a more dangerous world for girls and women. More than that though, congratulations on your success in furthering the oppression that is a constant factor in our lives. I hope you’re proud.

farrahtales:

[TW: EATING DISORDERS] “It Ain’t Skinny They Hate” - a slam poem about thin privilege

(this is my first time so I’m sorry if it’s terrible)
(also I know over-apologizing is somewhat of a turn off)
(but shh I’m Canadian it’s in my nature)

Every now and then I get told to
“Eat a sandwich!”
“Where’s your meat?”
“You’re all skin and bones, put some more on your plate!”
I don’t like it, but
it ain’t skinny they hate

I see the crusty-pixelled saved and resaved facebook jpegs
“Real men like curves, only dogs go for bones!”
and no I don’t wanna see it
especially when I got small tits
and wish
I had an ass that didn’t stab people’s laps
when I sit on them, but
it ain’t skinny they hate

and I know skinny isn’t always strong
skinny isn’t immune to pinching itself
glaring at itself
loathing, over-working, and starving itself
and spewing its breakfast in the washroom at school
but it isn’t because they’re running from skinny

it’s because they’re running from fat

and no they’re not always polite
but they could be on the defense
trying to cope with the privileges fat’s denied, and skinny’s afforded
can you blame them?
if you didn’t understand
why why why why
all your life
the body you were born into isn’t regarded as inherently RIGHT

I get told to eat a sandwich

my baby sister gets to grow up
compared to me, who didn’t diet or exercise
but is told that she HAS to diet and exercise
to look like me

that she wasn’t fine and perfect just the way she was
with chubby arms bared in a sundress
dipping cookies
into a glass of milk
on the front porch

like it’s so fucking taboo to have told her
she doesn’t need to improve
that her body was just as okay as mine

and I don’t know what that’s like

to be policed for my size
to be punished by society, including those who love me
for, of all things, my weight

because
it ain’t skinny they hate

call-of-cthulhu:

sinidentidades:

 Australia’s history of racism towards Aboriginals is absolutely disgusting. 

Until the mid-60s, indigenous Australians came under the Flora And Fauna Act, which classified them as animals, not human beings. This also meant that killing an indigenous Australian meant you weren’t killing a human being, but an animal.

To this day, Australia breaks every code of the Geneva Convention when it comes to indigenous Australians and their human rights. The “public housing” that the government has given them are one-bedroom shacks with no running water, no electricity and no gas, that entire families are forced to live in. These shacks are in communities in the outback, as far away from “civilised” society as possible. Out of sight, out of mind.

Indigenous Australians that live in the city are commonly forced to live in very dangerous and derelict areas that the government gives very little funding towards. Redfern in Sydney is a highly indigenous Australian populated suburb that is rife with crime, unemployment and horrendous living conditions. The government does next to nothing to help these people, either.

Whenever riots have broken out as a result of incredibly low morale, the police and the government are very quick to point all the blame at the indigenous Australians and say that they are the cause of their own problems, rather than looking at what the actual cause is.

Unemployment rates amongst indigenous Australians is astronomical. Crime rates are astronomical. Suicide rates are extremely high within the indigenous Australian community. Death from inadequate living conditions and inadequate health care is common. Brutality towards indigenous Australians is common.

The way many indigenous Australians are forced to live is equivalent to that of what one would expect from a third-world country. Indigenous Australians are considered by the UN to be one of the most horrendously marginalised groups in the world.

And how does the government amend all of this? With a national “Sorry Day”, where white people plant a hand in some designated area of soil as a token of their white guilt, and then continue going about their white privileged day.

On top of that, white people here commonly bitch and complain about how “good” indigenous Australians have it and how “thankful” they ought to be to the white man for improving their quality of life. Meanwhile, indigenous Australians have lost almost all sense of identity and culture because of white colonisation.

What is left of Aboriginal identity and culture has been nearly completely destroyed. And most people in this disgustingly privileged country do not give a single god damn fuck.

Australia is a disgusting country when it comes to racism. I am disgusted by my own country.