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Fat Acceptance Activist dead of heart attack at age 34.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:48 pm
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:48 pm
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Marge Swanson, a fat acceptance activist who helped pioneer the concept of thin privilege, is dead from a heart attack. She was 34 years old. Swanson championed the notion that weight and health have no inherent connection. She enjoyed dying her hair bright colors, wearing glasses and dating African American men.
“It’s not that I’m thin-phobic,” she once told an audience on a college campus. “It’s just that curvy women have been enslaved and victimized by capitalists for far too long and yeah, I’m upset.”
Swanson was born the middle of five children to a working class family in rural West Virginia. She was overweight as a child, and by her senior year of high school weighed over 350 pounds. She would later describe her teenage years as the most difficult period of her life.
“People can be so intolerant of others,” she later wrote. “My classmates were such judgmental, privileged assholes.”
In college, Swanson found acceptance among a group of intersectional feminists. “First I learned to love myself, and that helped me become a happier person. Then I learned about white supremacy and thin privilege, and I got pissed.”
After finishing college, Swanson moved into a studio apartment. She had trouble securing a full-time job due to “systemic ableism,” so she started a blog. Within a year, she had attracted a worldwide audience. Swanson became a big voice in the fat acceptance community, where she sought to raise awareness about the impact of fat phobia, which includes expressing concern over someone’s size (“concern trolling“) or associating obesity with health issues.
“I don’t want to compare struggles, but Harriet Tubman fought a similar battle,” Swanson once told a reporter. “Women in larger bodies are seriously underrepresented among athletes and models. Oppression and discrimination are the only logical reasons why this is occurring.”
Some doctors, who Swanson called “psychological terrorists,” affirmed her message of self-acceptance but warned about the practice of endorsing unhealthy body types amidst skyrocketing obesity rates. Additional concerns were raised about the fat acceptance movement’s use of dangerously unscientific or misrepresented concepts, like the belief that weight and health have no clear relationship.
The promotion of obesity, some have said, is no different than advocating for anorexia.
“When people learn that I’m 412 pounds, they assume that means I’m inactive or unhealthy,” she wrote in her blog last year. “I’m actually one of the most health conscious people you’ll ever meet. The myth that obesity has any relationship to health is absolutely ridiculous.”
In 2015, Swanson was diagnosed with heart and gallbladder disease. The reality of her mortality, she claimed, only deepened her commitment to fight against weight related injustices.
“I may have a few bad cells, but my health has not been affected,” she told fans on her website. “Thin privilege is a far greater menace to health than having a few extra curves.”
Marge Swanson, a fat acceptance activist who helped pioneer the concept of thin privilege, is dead from a heart attack. She was 34 years old. Swanson championed the notion that weight and health have no inherent connection. She enjoyed dying her hair bright colors, wearing glasses and dating African American men.
“It’s not that I’m thin-phobic,” she once told an audience on a college campus. “It’s just that curvy women have been enslaved and victimized by capitalists for far too long and yeah, I’m upset.”
Swanson was born the middle of five children to a working class family in rural West Virginia. She was overweight as a child, and by her senior year of high school weighed over 350 pounds. She would later describe her teenage years as the most difficult period of her life.
“People can be so intolerant of others,” she later wrote. “My classmates were such judgmental, privileged assholes.”
In college, Swanson found acceptance among a group of intersectional feminists. “First I learned to love myself, and that helped me become a happier person. Then I learned about white supremacy and thin privilege, and I got pissed.”
After finishing college, Swanson moved into a studio apartment. She had trouble securing a full-time job due to “systemic ableism,” so she started a blog. Within a year, she had attracted a worldwide audience. Swanson became a big voice in the fat acceptance community, where she sought to raise awareness about the impact of fat phobia, which includes expressing concern over someone’s size (“concern trolling“) or associating obesity with health issues.
“I don’t want to compare struggles, but Harriet Tubman fought a similar battle,” Swanson once told a reporter. “Women in larger bodies are seriously underrepresented among athletes and models. Oppression and discrimination are the only logical reasons why this is occurring.”
Some doctors, who Swanson called “psychological terrorists,” affirmed her message of self-acceptance but warned about the practice of endorsing unhealthy body types amidst skyrocketing obesity rates. Additional concerns were raised about the fat acceptance movement’s use of dangerously unscientific or misrepresented concepts, like the belief that weight and health have no clear relationship.
The promotion of obesity, some have said, is no different than advocating for anorexia.
“When people learn that I’m 412 pounds, they assume that means I’m inactive or unhealthy,” she wrote in her blog last year. “I’m actually one of the most health conscious people you’ll ever meet. The myth that obesity has any relationship to health is absolutely ridiculous.”
In 2015, Swanson was diagnosed with heart and gallbladder disease. The reality of her mortality, she claimed, only deepened her commitment to fight against weight related injustices.
“I may have a few bad cells, but my health has not been affected,” she told fans on her website. “Thin privilege is a far greater menace to health than having a few extra curves.”
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:50 pm to knowingabyss
the hat really ties it all together
This post was edited on 3/20/17 at 7:51 pm
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:51 pm to knowingabyss
This weighs heavy on my heart.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:51 pm to knowingabyss
Those poor, poor pallbearers.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:51 pm to knowingabyss
quote:
She enjoyed dying her hair bright colors, wearing glasses and dating African American men.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:52 pm to knowingabyss
Pioneering thin privilege, wtf?
"Dead from a heart attack" I'm going to pioneer fat privilege, and this will be my main subject.
"Dead from a heart attack" I'm going to pioneer fat privilege, and this will be my main subject.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:52 pm to knowingabyss
quote:
Women in larger bodies are seriously underrepresented among athletes and models. Oppression and discrimination are the only logical reasons why this is occurring
Ok.
Maybe people can learn from her mistake.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:52 pm to knowingabyss
quote:
Marge Swanson
Tell em Large Marge sentcha!
ETA- shite, too late
This post was edited on 3/20/17 at 7:55 pm
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:53 pm to JustLivinTheDream
quote:
She enjoyed dying her hair bright colors, wearing glasses and dating African American men.
Is she from the LP?
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:53 pm to knowingabyss
quote:no
She enjoyed dying her hair bright colors, wearing glasses and dating African American men
fricking
comment
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:53 pm to OWLFAN86
She was so fat that even clicking on the link in the OP and it is struggling to load the article about her.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:53 pm to knowingabyss
quote:
I don’t want to compare struggles, but Harriet Tubman fought a similar battle
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:54 pm to lsunurse
quote:boom
She was so fat that even clicking on the link in the OP and it is struggling to load the article about her.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:54 pm to lsunurse
Thats pretty insensitive nurse. Fatty fatasses cant help being disgusting fat turds.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:54 pm to BamaFan89
quote:She really meant Harriet Tubofchicken.
Harriet Tubman
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