One of the first things I wrote on this site was an article about how eating clean doesn’t have to cost a lot of money. I had to write this because early on I realized that when backed into a corner most fat activists will quickly say they are too poor to eat “clean”, that they have to resort to eating trash 24/7 because there are simply no other options. Amanda Levitt (@FatBodyPolitics) was one such person, Laura Bogart (@LDBogart) is another.
Today Laura says her body doesn’t need a cure, next year it will probably be something about how diabetes isn’t a disease she should be shunned for, a few years later she will complain about the poor handling of her scooter after she loses a foot.
Laura recently wrote an article about how the movement to eat clean and be fit is a matter of class, how impossible it is to be poor and fit. I could write about how I went from nearly 300 lbs and barely making above minimum wage working a retail gig to the slender successful shitlord we all know and love but I think it would be far more productive to simply rip her weapons grade fatlogic apart.
Healthy living has become a new mode of conspicuous consumption, with thin, yoga-toned bodies emblematic of one’s social standing: Cheap-and-easy fried foods are for the poor and uneducated, people who couldn’t possibly spell serotonin, let alone realize that 30-to-40 minutes of rigorous cardiovascular exercise will boost their levels of it.
-Laura Bogart
You don’t have to be educated to learn how to whip up a salad, and I would wager I spend way less on my food than she does. Being fit and eating right isn’t a sign of privilege it’s more about an understanding about the way nutrition and activity work. If you opted to suck down McGriddles and a 900 calorie Starbucks gingerbread pumpkin frappachino with extra whipped cream for breakfast every morning before you park your fat ass on tumblr until lunch time that just shows that you have no self-control and live in a fantasy world. Still Laura here likes to rely on the message of privilege when it comes to fitness, that the bloated mass in the picture above is not the result of her making shitty life choices, it’s just that she can’t afford a personal trainer and an all organic food diet!
The immaculately packaged uber-fit lifestyle they present is a world away from the workaday drudgery that keeps so many of us housed and fed (even if from an office vending machine): There are no gray cubicles under fluorescent lighting better-suited for an interrogation room; no hands chapped and raw from washing other people’s dishes; no slow grinds through traffic and no bus rides spent inhaling our neighbors’ armpits. The hot, “healthy” bod with the 35-inch waist is, in its own way, a totem of leisure, just as the soft-bodied beauties of yore relied on their double chins and their fair skins to show that they were the pampered elite.
-Laura Bogart
The fact that Laura thinks a 35″ waist is some near unattainable measurement shows just how out of touch she is. Just for reference I’m a 5’10 ~180 lbs and have a 31″ waist despite my 75 minute commute into the city every day and back. That’s nearly 3 hours a day, before I factor in the 9-5 that is my day job. Yes I also spend about an hour a day in the gym, that hour counts for only 4% of our day, far less than the average fat tumblrina spends talking about this perceived privilege on their shiny new macbook or their smartphone with data plan. If you can’t find 60 minutes of your day to put into improving your body, it’s simply because you don’t want to. I can already hear fatties whining about the privilege about having a gym in my apartment building, but I didn’t have this luxury when I was in my early 20’s and nearly 300 lbs. Back then I couldn’t simply take the elevator to the gym, I couldn’t even afford a membership at my local gym! So I planned a routine of many free exercises like running, push ups, sit ups, mountain climbers and many other exercises that don’t require a cent! All of those activities are free and you can do all of them in or around your home, so once again the myth of having to be privileged and rich in order to be fit falls flat once again. What’s worse a quick review of the average fat activist shows that they spend more time complaining about how fat they are than I do maintaining a body that they consider “unobtainable”. Staying fit isn’t a sign of privilege, sucking down everything you want while blogging for a living about the oppression & plight of the lonely obese 20 something white female because you are a undatable slob is.
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