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Published: 2014-05-08 18:58:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 13071; Favourites: 314; Downloads: 0
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something i did to celebrate body acceptance, living however you want, and to hell with our diet culture and haters shaming others. regardless of a person's health, size, lifestyle, whatever, everyone deserves to exist without harassment or shame. end of story. every body is flawless.
available as prints and t-shirts and other stuff probably at my society 6 shop.
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No one should bully or harass people because of the way they look, but gluttony, sloth, and other unhealthy behavior shouldn't be promoted, either.
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argh, you've uncovered my master plan to turn the world into a haven for sloth and gluttony! if it weren't for you meddling kids!
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There is no master plan, I'm just saying there is an obesity epidemic in the Western world and you're not helping any.
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you're right; it is clearly horrible to promote the idea that all human beings don't deserve to be targeted for irrational, misdirected hate. i will repent with 50 Hail Jillian Michaels and a salad.
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Again, nobody here is saying that it's right to bully and target others with irrational, misdirected hate. Societal disapproval of unhealthy behavior is not a personal attack on you, please get over yourself. I bet you don't have any objections to society discouraging smoking, right?
It's great to promote body acceptance and a positive self image. It's not great to promote eating crap all the time.
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dang it. i'll have to change the title from "join the obesity army: eat crap all the time!" what do you suggest?
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Well, since you clearly can't have a reasonable discussion or take criticism like a proper artist, I see no point in continuing the conversation.
I wish you the best.
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if there was any relevant criticism, i'd take it seriously.
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"like a proper artist" lol
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Well, when you post your work to the public internet, it is inevitable that your artwork will get criticism and negative opinions, not only for the execution, which is colorful and pretty cute actually, but for the concept itself and the message it sends.
The proper thing to do when receiving criticism on one's work is to be gracious and try to learn from it, and not be an asshat. Remember this if you plan to go to art school or otherwise go professional with your art.
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lol i get paid to make art, but thanks for the tips! if you're not paying my bills, i could give a shit what you think about anything i make.
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I get exactly what you're trying to say with this piece. What I don't get is why some people feel the need to tell others they're fat as if they don't know that already.
And the comments on this, WOW. You don't see people talking about how unhealthy it is to be anorexic whenever someone posts a picture of a skinny woman. Or how bad plastic surgery can be for you with some of these women with huge fake breast.Β So many women have problems with anorexia and bulimia because from an early age they're told their bodies are unacceptable the way they are so they HAVE to change them to be perfect. No one should have to change to be perfect! As long as you're happy and feel good that should be enough.
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Why don't we say lifestyle change? Eating nothing but shit will not lead you to happiness, it will lead you to a grave before 50, needing heart surgery to remove the clogged shells of arteries and type two diabetes.Β
eating whole foods 90% of the time is NOT a diet. It is called regular eating. Eating nothing but shit will make you fat, lazy and lead to hundreds of different complications within your body.
Stop making obesity attractive, it is not attractive.
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lol @ all the judgements about someone's health and lifestyle when you know absolutely nothing about them or their life.
newsflash: eating any kind of food is "regular eating." seriously, wtf?
being hateful, judgmental, and superior is not attractive.
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Did I say superior? Do you have issues with self esteem and believing that the world revolves around you? No, a normal healthy diet is eating things that are not processed to the point that someone couldn't recognize it.Β
Why do you make your fat women with thin waists, thing wrists, thin ankles and visible collar bones. show me a real fat woman, no plastic surgery, no photoshop, and no corset who looks like that WITH a healthy blood pressure and no diabetes who could run away from a predator and I will get down on my knees and beg for forgiveness.Β
Until then, stop acting like a victim. I am criticizing art. Just because you disagree, does not make you right.
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how am i saying the world "revolves around me" by saying fuck off for coming at me with hateful generalizations and trying to shame me for not subsisting of a diet you deem worthy? is it really that offensive of a concept that someone else's body and health are none of your business?
i don't always draw fat women the same way. i draw those features slightly smaller because that's how bodies work. parts are bigger, parts are smaller; contrary to popular belief, fat people aren't just giant, amorphous blobs. maybe you could study up on anatomy when you're done putting photoshop filters on photos and calling it "your paintings."
not that it's any of your business, but you exactly just described me. i am fat. i also have a comparatively small waist, wrists, ankles, and visible collar bones. i've never had plastic surgery and i don't wear corsets. yet i have healthy blood pressure (which nurses never believe until they test me, because of people like you), i don't have diabetes, i have completely healthy bloodwork, i jog and work out because i enjoy it, and i just ran in my first marathon and was outrunning several skinny runners. and, shock and horror, i also eat the foods pictured sometimes. but even if i was unhealthy, i don't deserve to be treated the way you and so many others treat fat people. also, i'm sorry you're worried about escaping saber tooth tigers in this day and age.
and lol @ acting like a victim. acting like a victim means standing up to people trying to shame and bully you? okay. i am right, because my stance is that i don't care about your diet and how you live, so why do you care so deeply about what i'm doing? do you honestly think people are going to see this drawing and decide to "become obese?" do you honestly think any fat person will be motivated to lose weight by shaming or hearing how much better you are than them because you don't eat fries?Β if shame made people thin, there wouldn't be a single fat person on earth, trust me.Β if you don't pay my bills, put food on my table or clothes on my back, i don't give a single solitary shit what you think about me or anything i think or do.
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oh wow, I do eat fries bitch, just not every fucking day like you do obviously. Fries are a once a month if that thing. A FUCKING TREAT. because I do not put shit in my body and then try to call the huge fupa hanging off me 'curves'. Someone is wallowing in self pity, do you seriously have nothing better to do. Unless you have video proof of you running, i doubt you run fattie. Post a picture of you, with a pressure cuff around your arm showing the results, if you can get the damn cuff around your arm.
Being fat is not beautiful. Being fat shows laziness and gluttony. Calories in vs Calories out. BASIC FUCKING PHYSICS. but if you honestly want to live in an obese and unhealthy lifestyle. go right ahead, just don't glorify it like it is sexy or healthy.
BTW predators still exist, they are called dogs. outrun a god damn dog and I will be impressed.
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wow. what an unpleasant, shitty, toxic person you are. glad not to know you.
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whole foods <3!!!! completely disregarding body weight here, i completely agree with your good lifestyle thing~
cuz it really makes ya feel happier than when youre having lotsa junk.
health ftw!
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super yummy right? Don't get me wrong, once every two weeks or so I will treat myself to a burger, or to some super yummy icecream. But most of the time it is fresh foods that i can cook with at home.Β
most people consider how I eat a diet. I simply think that how I eat is healthy, and lets me live a life disease free without worry of wtf they put into those fake foods.
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I LOVE this Kaylie!!!! Β I totally get what you're saying, and I wholeheartedly agree!
People definitely use the "unhealthy" excuse as a quick way to write people off and judge them, as evidenced in the comments. Β It simply isn't as simple as fat = unhealthy, but people love generalizations.
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I'm not saying the person shown is unhealthy. I'm saying all the shitty food shown is unhealthy.
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and? i'm sure "healthy" people NEVER eat any of that stuff, right?
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thanks, Ola!!!
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This is great ^_^Β I'm surrounded by food nazis at home and looking at this (plus some of your responses to the supposedly "health conscious" smart remarks I'm seeing in the comments section), I'm happy to see that there are people who are confident about their weight.Β I'm still struggling a bit with my image because of some of the comments I receive from family members, but little by little I'm getting better...
Having a boyfriend who's an "ass man" certainly doesn't hurt matters, either, lol ^_~Β
I eat reasonably healthy.Β I just have extra meat on my bones and I don't feel like ordering salads every time I go out to eat (le gasp!)
Also, I love the hair and glasses
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aww, i'm sorry to hear you're having difficulties at home! i was in a similar situation growing up, so i know it's tough. :/ keep strong and focus on you and the people that matter to you, and know that one day you won't have to live with your family anymore, and can surround yourself with supportive, loving people instead of people who make you feel less than.
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It's not quite as bad as that...Β Just the occasional throwaway comment every now and again...Β Mostly from extended family members on my mom's side (and my mom sometimes, who also got a lot comments like that)...Β Thank you for the encouragement, though ^_^
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Unhealthy behaviours like long-term, consistent over-eating and lack of exercise don't deserve respect. But yeah, I agree,Β most people do deserve respect.
But not all people. Because nobody's flawlessΒ
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Right? She doesn't seem to understand how dangerous it is to put shit quality foods into her body. Whatever, she will get her darwin award soon.
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haha WOW. smugly gloating about a total stranger's impending death because they don't subscribe to your ideals - clearly you are the superior human here!
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okay, so you're defending your stance that fat people are gross, lazy slobs undeserving of respect. MOST people deserve respect, just not fat people. i'm sorry but you're just plain wrong. ALL people deserve respect, regardless of whether or not you approve of their personal lifestyle choices, or find them pleasing to look at or not. when i say "respect" i don't mean that you endorse them or what they do; simply that you see them as human, treat them with basic human dignity, and don't make judgement calls about them based on their appearance. that's it. and you're saying there are human beings undeserving of that basic human decency because of how they look. because there is NO WAY you can simply look at a person and know their lifestyle or health status. once again, not that anyone owes it to you or anyone else to be what you deem "healthy," but how do you know a person's fatness isn't caused by a debilitating medical condition? that there are biological and genetic factors contributing to their fatness? that a person's metabolism isn't fucked after a lifetime of dieting and attempting to fit into societal norms, so they've finally decided to forget about weight loss and strive for being happy in the body they have? the answer is you don't. and the truth is there are almost always complex reasons behind why people are fat, not simply because they like to be slovenly and disgust you. likewise, there are plenty of people who won the genetic lottery and are considered thin and attractive, yet never intentionally exercise or eat anything that doesn't come from a bag or drive-thru. do you think of those people with revulsion, feeling vindicated in your assertions that they don't deserve respect? i highly doubt it.
the point is it's someone else's body, and none of your business. how they live and how they relate to their body has nothing to do with you, so why do you care? maybe think about that. and yes, every BODY is flawless, because flaws are a made-up concept to make us hate ourselves and each other, and to sell us stuff we don't need.
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Your response to my original comment is quite intense, I'm sorry if I've angered you. I'll re-phrase, and maybe we can come to an understanding.
I try to live a healthy lifestyle, and it inspires me when I see other people do the same. It saddens me when I see people living unhealthily, and personally, I feel it's morally wrong to normalise obesity, as I believe you might be attempting to do with this art piece.Β
That was why I commented in the first place.
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but why does it make you sad? it doesn't affect you, or take away from your fitness. they are just people living their lives, with reasons and motivations you may not understand or relate to.
i just don't see how morality correlates to health. is someone automatically a good person because they're healthy? is someone who smokes automatically a bad person? then why do we place so much moral weight on whether or not someone's fat or thin, regardless of why they are that way?
not that it will matter, but for the bajillionth time, i'm not trying to "promote" or "normalize" obesity. are you people genuinely that delusional that you believe if one fat person is okay with their body and refuses to be ashamed of it the obese army is going to rise up and come get you to start pouring ranch down your gullets? it's okay if you think fat people are gross. really, it is. we're all socialized to believe that fat is inherently evil, ugly, bad, gross, unhealthy, and any other negative thing you can think of. and as i said before, it's incredibly hard to break through a lifetime of social programming. so it's okay if you think fat people are gross and don't like them for that reason; just be honest about it. stop hiding it with the "i'm only concerned about everyone's health" bullshit. i guarantee you're not losing sleep at night worrying about chain smokers.
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Thank you for summing up my feelings on this piece!
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haha dude you are so pressed. you need validation, all right.
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two more words: don't care.
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What's with the aggression towards someone who wasn't being overtly negative..?Β
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Same here. I don't believe in bullying people simply for being overweight. In fact I regard that as counter-productive. On the other hand the OP seems to be vilifying diets and glamorizing a very serious and increasingly prevalent pandemic (obesity). That I find appallingly irresponsible and socially toxic.
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So what are your thoughts on the health risks associated with obesity and poor diet?
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i think a person's health and diet are their own business, between them and their doctor, and shouldn't be speculated about by others, or criteria in determining whether or not they deserve basic human respect and decency. people have a right to exist, whether they are healthy or unhealthy.
Β i also think that all the societal hysteria surrounding the "obesity epidemic" and "concern" for fat people's health is really just a red herring used to validate our culture's disgust with fat bodies. people don't care about fat people's lifestyles or if they're going to die early deaths; they simply don't want to look at fat people because they think they're gross. we're socialized to see being fat as the worst thing a person can be, to be inherently bad and indicative of a person's character, therefore making them less than human, rather than just a physical characteristic that people have a complex relationship with because it's socially loaded. it takes a lot of work to overcome social conditioning, and a lot of people dodge their conditioning by hiding it with something else.
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Hear, hear!!!!
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Of course no one deserves to be bullied for being overweight, but nonetheless it is irresponsible to encourage a very real pandemic that affects a growing majority of the American population and truly is correlated with myriad health problems. And yes, by saying diets are bad and surrounding your character with calorie-dense food of dubious nutritional value, you are encouraging it.
And this is coming from a guy who is overweight himself but is working to lose it.
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i'm not encouraging anything except people being happy, or at least accepting, the body they currently have, whether they want to change it or not. that's it. that's the message of this piece of art. i chose "junk food" because it is the type of food fat people are most shamed for eating, and because i personally don't think any food should be totally excluded from a healthy diet. i wanted it to be shocking to people, to make them question why it bothers them, and maybe explore their feelings about fatness, and possibly how they relate to fat people, or even their own bodies. i knew some people were going to have a knee-jerk negative reaction to this piece, because whenever a fat person is depicted as happy and comfortable with themselves, they are accused of "promoting an unhealthy lifestyle." it's bullshit. if i had drawn a skinny girl instead of a fat one, would you have the same reaction? my guess is no.
also, *newsflash* no one owes it to you, or anyone else, to be your definition of healthy. incredible, i know. and yes, i'm saying people who reject your ideals of what is "healthy" still deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. stay with me. i'm guessing by your response you didn't read or take in my previous response at all. i'm also guessing you're not familiar with recent studies and emerging information that fatness doesn't necessarily correlate to disease and health problems, or that you've heard of Health At Every Size. or even if you poo-poo the data on morbidity and mortality since there's tons of conflicting stuff out there (a lot of it funded by the weight loss industry), you can't shrug off the data that time and time again shows that diets don't work. or that even if weight loss is achieved, there's a 95% failure rate of keeping the weight off after 4 years; it gets even higher after that.
so what should someone do if they simply can't lose weight? live in shame for the rest of their lives? or accept their body and live life to the fullest, whatever that means to them? that's the point i'm trying to make. and why does that threaten/upset people? because of social conditioning that ew, fat people are gross, and also because it sends thin people, or people working to become thin, into a blind panic when they see a happy, confident fat person. why? not because they're "concerned for their health." not because they're dastardly "promoting obesity." but because it makes them feel uncomfortable that the social hierarchy is being disrupted. they're supposed to be better than the fat person by virtue of having what society deems a more acceptable body, or being a "good fatty" by striving to "be healthy," and when a fat person acts as if they are equal and deserving of respect the same as any thin person, it sends the thin person into a tailspin of uncertainty, and the need for immediate validation of their conditioning on weight hierarchy. because they worry that if fat people become socially acceptable, that it somehow invalidates their status as a thin person, or their hard work to achieve fitness. this is delusional. no amount of fat people rejecting the values you subscribe to can take away your fitness. so this tells me, like i said before, this isn't about fitness, or a concern for health. it's about status, or rather, a fear of losing it.Β i'm not saying that's what you're doing, but it makes me wonder why you, or anyone else, feel so threatened by a drawing of a woman eating a burger and being happy.
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Β i love it so much! i wanna use it as my profile pic on facebook but thats stealing
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Nope if you will have permision from the author and the link below the image on Facebook.
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