Book of Rants

Fat shaming

If you didn't know, recently there's been a video posted called "Dear fat people" and it's caused quite the stir in the youtube community, if you haven't seen it it's basically just this girl yelling about how much she thinks overweight people are horrible. In this video she talks about things like how she thinks body positivety if fake and just an excuse and how "Disgusting" fat people are.

TRIGGER WARNING I will be talking about eating disorders and their affects, like in the next paragraph.

If you are thinking of hurting yourself in anyway my bio has phone numbers for that kind of thing, google self help, please, please don't. Eating disorders will fuck up your life six ways to Sunday, from anything like mental health to your physical appearance and not in any way you're hoping for. It'll full on kill your teeth, make your hair fall out, make you have the most unhealthy appearance ever.
And if you self harm in any way I know it's not as easy as "Oh, yeah just put down the blade/lighter/whatever!" but seek help, you obviously have something you need to talk about.

Now before I go all full Hulk over this let me say she did say she understands people sometimes have conditions or genetics stacked against them and she sin't aiming all of that at them, but that doesn't at all excuse her being so ignorant and hurtful.

This video made me see red, per say because she literally went out of her way to make people feel like shit. It may not have been her motivation, in fact her motivation was to get fat people to eat healthy and work out, but the way she way putting it was obscene!
She can create some seriously dangerous situation with this because while the intentions were good the words she was saying had so much weight, she even made and anorexia joke! Let me repeat that. An anorexia joke. How on earth can she justify that in her mind? She tells people to stop eating! 

It was a joke yes, but it's not okay at all, because the ten-fourteen year old kids watching will not get that. It'll go straight to the heart and that will all the ruthless fat shaming of the rest of the video they'll think that that is the solution to their self image issues.
And while we're on the topic of self image issues can we talk about how just by saying those horrible things she's justifying all that self hate! She's entirely forgetting she fact that anyone can watch this video and it can have a million different impacts on a million different people and I can guarantee most of it is bad and so incredibly real.

Just remember that you are capable incredible things and one person screaming nonsense is nothing compared to the hundreds that are making counter-videos saying your body is just fine and you don't have to feel like shit about this.
On another note, I'm not saying people shouldn't try to be healthy, but just make sure you're in the right head-space to do so because if you're depressed or weighed down by self-hatred it may not be the best idea.

And finally, do not go to this video to tell this girl off. I'm sure she's getting enough of that and even know she was being an ass she doesn't deserve to be told she's some kind of useless or anything like that.

Hermescamper, OUT!