{"id":564717,"date":"2021-06-15T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564717"},"modified":"2021-06-15T15:37:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:37:17","slug":"fatphobia-is-rooted-in-racism-fat-liberationist-says-thinness-marketed-as-a-white-trait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fatphobia-is-rooted-in-racism-fat-liberationist-says-thinness-marketed-as-a-white-trait\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fatphobia Is Rooted In Racism\u2019: Fat Liberationist Says \u2018Thinness\u2019 Marketed As A \u2018White Trait\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffatphobia-is-rooted-in-racism-fat-liberationist-says-thinness-marketed-as-a-white-trait%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564717&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-654400095-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>According to the radical wings of social media, the latest form of discrimination to have its roots in racism is \u201cfatphobia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHere\u2019s your reminder that fatphobia is rooted in racism,\u201d declared TikTok user Hannah Fuhlendorf, who describes herself as a \u201ccounselor\u201d and \u201cfat liberationist\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@hannahtalksbodies\/video\/6908766941628861701?lang=en&#038;is_copy_url=1&#038;is_from_webapp=v1\">video<\/a> that has garnered almost 400,000 views on the social media platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs always, if you haven\u2019t read this book, go do that,\u201d Fuhlendorf continued, holding up a copy of \u201cFearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia\u201d by Dr. Sabrina Strings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe main thing to understand is that for the last 300-ish years, white folks have been marketing fatness as a black trait,\u201d Fuhlendorf said. \u201cAnd this is regardless of whether or not black people individually were actually fat. That was irrelevant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.3333333333333\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Finding fat people unattractive is racist <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nsGk16UHyY\">pic.twitter.com\/nsGk16UHyY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1404434181011222536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cThe message they spread was that black women specifically were ravenous and uncontrollable and these barbaric traits made them fat,\u201d Fuhlendorf added. \u201cOn the flip side, thinness was marketed as a white trait. Again, regardless of whether or not individual white people were actually thin. That was irrelevant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe idea was that white women specifically were refined and restrained and this led them to having delicate, thin bodies,\u201d Fuhlendorf concluded. \u201cOver the years, these messages have become more subtle, but even today they are still very prevalent in conversations around race, health, capitalism, and poverty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hannahtalksbodies.com\/about-me\">website<\/a>, Hannah Fuhlendorf offers coaching sessions for $180 per hour for individuals and $228 per hour for couples. She also notes that \u201c<\/span><span>Income-based reduced fees are not available at this time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMy personal and ongoing experiences with fatphobia and sexism have fueled my desire to see people free from the prison of self-hate and internalized oppression. My goal is to support all of my clients in reaching their goals and stepping into their power,\u201d Fuhlendorf explains in \u201cMy Story.\u201d \u201c<\/span><span>I practice from a HAES and fat liberation lens. I aim for my work to create a space of collaboration and empowerment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFat liberation,\u201d also known as \u201cfat acceptance,\u201d \u201cfat pride,\u201d or \u201cfat empowerment,\u201d is a social movement that aims to change the so-called \u201canti-fat bias\u201d regarding the stigma of obesity. Standing, in contrast, is a wide swathe of criticism from the medical community, arguing that the movement can promote a lifestyle with significant health consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia\u201d was published in May 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFearing the Black Body participates in a critical discourse that exposes the convergence of anxieties about race and fatness as it manifests in our current fatphobia. The text successfully demonstrates how the Black body has been subject to ongoing surveillance, and more specifically how it has been co-opted as a site where struggles around race and class issues play out,\u201d wrote Fat Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Strings is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the radical wings of social media, the latest form of discrimination to have its roots in racism is \u201cfatphobia.\u201d\u201cHere\u2019s your reminder that fatphobia is rooted in racism,\u201d declared &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280360,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-654400095-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Fatphobia Is Rooted In Racism\u2019: Fat Liberationist Says \u2018Thinness\u2019 Marketed As A \u2018White Trait\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-654400095-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Fatphobia Is Rooted In Racism\u2019: Fat Liberationist Says \u2018Thinness\u2019 Marketed As A \u2018White Trait\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}