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resolvetobehappy:

fitness-my-way replied to your link: Are we too polite about being overweight?

Personally my doctor is not responsible for the food I put in my mouth, the bad decisions I made. How can I hold someone else responsible for my actions? One person to blame and that is me. If we blame…

I think a good portion of the problem is that people don’t know what is healthy. We’re bombarded with advertisements and miracle diets, but the only thing that works is hard work. And people need to realize that even though the country is overweight, it is not a normal or healthy way to be.

Those things are what doctors should tell us. And schools.

aryaesque:

… except all women don’t have boobs and all women don’t have curves. and going to great lengths to say that women who don’t have curves are not real women is just as problematic as saying that women who do are not real women. 

i’m all for reclaiming the curves and telling girls it’s okay to look however they look, but can we please do that without putting down those who have straight lines instead of curves, those who have sinew and muscle without the layer of fat that makes it curvy,whatever that means?

because you are just as attractive and just as womanly.

sometimes you can’t help it, sometimes you were born this way, sometimes your brain made you this way, your hormones made you this way, your genetics made you this way, sometimes society being fucked up made you this way, and sometimes you fucking chose this because you like looking like this, whether it’s curvy and soft or hard and butch or skinny and frail and you’re not any less woman because of it, and you’re not any less human because of it. 

and, on a less diplomatic and more angry note: fuck off with this hollywood notion of “curves”, because those “curves” always seem to be a bit more firm and more tucked and more smooth and less jiggly than any kind of actual curve i’ve ever seen on any person of any gender.