“I’m fat, bipolar, and grey-A. I don’t think I have EVER seen a positive representation of the last two, and positive fat representations have been slowly trickling into media only over the past few years.
To all these people going on about how representation doesn’t matter! Flowers and dewdrops forever! or whatever (and yes that is how my brain filters it haha), what do you think of this- I have painfully low self-esteem. I was diagnosed with depression when I was 13, 11 years ago. At one point, it got to where I couldn’t even go outside, I was so afraid of being judged. And then, I discovered plus-sized fashion. I started immersing myself in body types that looked like mine, because fat is easily the most visible self-quality I listed above. And now, I can take a picture of myself (or at least my face), and post it to this site. That would have been absolutely unthinkable even a few months ago.
If Disney had had a fat princess when I was a kid, maybe it wouldn’t be like this. Maybe there would have been more representation and less-shaming in the media, and it wouldn’t have taken me so many years to be even slightly comfortable with who I am. And that’s why FD is working so hard to inform people on why there needs to be more representation- my story doesn’t have to be about body type, it could be about race, or orientation, or gender, or any number of things. When all you see is thin white girls (and the occasional brown or black girl), it becomes a goddamned problem for those of us who don’t fit into that mold.”
Me encanta que le eche la culpa a Disney que ella sea bipolar, gorda y retrasada. En vez de mirarse y decir, oh mierda, estoy gorda, voy a hacer ejercicio, oh vaya, tengo un desorden mental, necesito ir al psicólogo... Que asco macho.
Por no hablar de los gordos intentar normalizar el sobrepeso, la vida sedentaria y la mala alimentación.