{"id":10672,"date":"2015-03-11T20:24:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T04:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=10672"},"modified":"2015-03-11T20:24:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T04:24:41","slug":"ill-feel-fat-if-i-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/ill-feel-fat-if-i-want-to\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll Feel Fat If I Want To!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Did you know that Facebook lets you tell all your friends just how much you hate your body?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Uh-oh, body hatred! Make it stop!<\/p>\n
And this:<\/p>\n
Having these word choices completely normalizes using derogatory descriptive terms in the place of real feelings. How can a person feel \u2018fat\u2019 or \u2018ugly\u2019 when these aren\u2019t actually feelings?\u201d \u2026What\u2019s worse is that these adjectives are judgmental and forced on us by society to make women (and increasingly men) feel negatively about their otherwise healthy bodies!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
$\"fat$ <\/a><\/p>\n
Well, Facebook is sorry and never again will it allow us to fat-shame our own selves. Here’s the Facebook statement:<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve heard from our community that listing \u201cfeeling fat\u201d as an option for status updates could reinforce negative body image, particularly for people struggling with eating disorders. So we\u2019re going to remove \u201cfeeling fat\u201d from the list of options. We\u2019ll continue to listen to feedback as we think about ways to help people express themselves on Facebook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’m going to call bullshit on this and I don’t expect a single person to agree with me. But still, this is a disturbing trend. It’s not good to censor feelings, and fat is indeed a feeling, no matter what any petition says.<\/p>\n
I feel fat RIGHT NOW. I’m not actually fat but I feel fat. I also feel guilty much of the time. I feel depressed most days and often angry, too. Naming these feelings\u00a0 actually makes me\u00a0 feel better. I know that I don’t need to live in denial, that self-expression is healthy and liberating.<\/p>\n
Positivity is nice but shouldn’t be enforced by word police. Fat-shaming is a big deal at the moment but it’s a made-up problem created by scolds, overly sensitive crybabies who think Everyone Is Beautiful even though we’re not all beautiful.<\/p>\n
At the same time experts are urging people to talk about mental illness to dispel the stigma, Facebook is now telling us we can’t confess to feeling fat.<\/p>\n
Fuckers. Fascists. Fat-phobic fascist fuckers.<\/p>\n
P.S. You can’t ‘feel ugly’ anymore on Facebook, either. Because, I don’t know, it’s mean to people struggling with ugliness issues.<\/p>\n
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Facebook has responded to a petition by eliminating the status option of ‘feeling fat.’ If only I’d known about this option! And now it’s gone, thanks to political correctness. The Change.org petition said this: Did you know that Facebook lets … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[692,177,210],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-2M8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}