[ SECRET POST #2876 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2876 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[The Boxtrolls]


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03.
[One Piece]


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04.
[Hockey RPF, Patrick Kane]


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05.
[The Silmarillion]


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06.
[Meghan Trainor: All About That Bass]


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07.
[Radiant Historia]


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[Twin Peaks]


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09.
[Meghan Trainor]


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10.
[Taylor Swift]



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[Star Wars]













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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Why do you deserve an anthem at other people's expense?

[(Anonymous)]

At whose expense am I feeling good about myself while listening to a pop song, exactly? Who does the music I use headphones to listen to in my kitchen hurt?

[(Anonymous)]

MEDIA EXISTS IN A COMPLETE AND PERFECT VACUUM!!!!!!

[annethecatdetective]

Ah yes. So all the media telling its audience fat people are a punchline at best, are morally lax gluttons, are lazy and stupid and think about nothing but food, that has never had any affect whatsoever on people's opinions. Hallelujah.

I know media doesn't exist in a vacuum. But one line in one song is nothing compared to the message that's shoved down my throat every day. I'm not making you listen to the song, and I'm sorry if you can't avoid it if it bothers you, but I haven't heard about any upswings in violence by fat people against skinny people because of this song.

[(Anonymous)]

(Sorry, I'm signed out because I'm on my phone)

I deserve to respect myself and feel good about the body that I have because I'm a person and we all deserve that. Some people can get that validation from society because their body types do not cause strangers to view them as stupid, lazy, gluttonous, undeserving of love, or even undeserving of proper medical care.

I don't get that message from society, however. I don't get it from the vast majority of tv, movies, magazines, or pop music. I certainly don't get it from strangers who feel comfortable judging my worth as a human being by the size of my ass. And I'm far from the fattest person I know, for whom those messages are even more frequent and more vicious.

So at whose expense am I getting a scrap of validation with a beat I can dance to?

[(Anonymous)]

this is a good comment. rock on, anon, you do deserve it! :)

[(Anonymous)]

Of course you deserve all of that. Of course the abuse that society heaps on people who don't have the correct body type is wrong. But why does feeling validated have to involve slagging on people who don't look like you?

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

Obviously, in a perfect world, it wouldn't. Everyone would just have a ton of empowering stuff for everyone with no abuse of anyone else. I agree that it's silly to talk about skinny bitches the way it does.

But we don't live in a perfect world, and personally, I'd rather feel good about the song that makes me feel good about myself even if it is imperfect, rather than wait around for kickass stuff that happens to be perfect in every single way. I am capable of acknowledging that it is imperfect and it'd be better if it didn't talk about skinny bitches, while also enjoying the song and being empowered by it, and I don't think that is wrong in any way. I'd rather not criticize everything that moves in the direction of being empowering or good for every little mistake that it makes. I'd rather not engage in endless caviling about whether the person is fat enough to count as being fat. I don't think that something needs to be immune from criticism for me to like it. Sometimes it is good to feel good, even if you're still imperfect. I'd rather focus on the "every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top" than the parts that are bad.

[annethecatdetective]

It doesn't come off that way to me. There's one line that, without the following, might, yes, but if you're not a bitch, you're not a 'skinny bitch', no matter how skinny you are, and therefore not being addressed. Just like if a privileged group I belong to is called out for a behavior I don't engage in, I understand that I'm not being personally attacked. It happens a lot and sometimes you just have to let it go.

And here's the thing-- compared to me, most of the girls in that video are pretty thin. I don't expect anyone to want to look like me, and there's a big difference between my listening to a song, and going out and shouting at individual women who happen to be thin-- a thing I don't do.

I see so much outrage over a single line in a single song, which by the way goes on to include people of ALL body types in being told that every inch of their bodies are perfect. Yes, more people would have been happy without that line. Not everyone-- no song is for absolutely everyone.

You don't have to like the song. And I get how annoying it is when a song that you dislike is everywhere for a while, or even a song you find insulting/offensive. But thin bodies get validated all over the place.