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[TRIGGER WARNING: disordered eating, fat shaming, abuse, violent imagery] A Biggest Loser finalist on how the show and its crew dehumanize and abuse contestants.

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[Biggest Loser finalist] Kai and I spoke on the phone about her experiences on the Biggest Loser. From seeing her fellow contestants forced to workout with injuries against doctor’s orders, to the extreme dehydration prior to weigh-ins, to the resultant eating disorder that Kai still is working to heal, the story she told was nothing like the fantasy that the Biggest Loser seeks to promote.

I just want to reiterate again that this interview comes with a SERIOUS TRIGGER WARNING. This describes people (the crew and trainers) who literally see fat people as subhuman and strive to make them believe they are so, and the abuse described is psychological, emotional, AND physical. The second portion of the interview (linked from the first portion) talks about eating disorders in explicit detail. Additional trigger warnings may apply if you choose to listen to the full interview, as I’ve only read the snippets transcribed in these posts. Please, please click with care.

(Reblogged from goddessofcheese)

Awake & unafraid.: (warnings for description of abuse, rape) randomly:

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squintyoureyes:

The worst thing about what they do to Tara on True Blood compared to Sookie is that it reinforces the worst historical social constructs about black women and white women. Tara’s boyfriend gets shot in the head, she’s tricked, trapped, beaten, raped, for…

(Reblogged from tinydragongina)
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A lot of people seem to implicitly think that racism, misogyny, and homophobia are fairly rare things in our society. The corollary to this is that racist beliefs are only held by racists, and racists are the sort of extreme aberrations from mainstream society who burn crosses on people’s lawns. So when you say that what person X said is offensive, they think “No way! Person X wouldn’t burn a cross.” I think this is where “it wasn’t intended to be offensive, so it must not be offensive” comes from.

This worldview presents a double whammy, because even if you can convince them something is technically problematic, it’s not related to any systematic problems in our society, so it’s still no big deal.

A comment by Autumn Harvest on No Cookies For Me: Blatant Sexism *Isn’t* Benign, Thank You… (via iamthecrime)

(Source: onyourownsidethistime)

(Reblogged from goddessofcheese)
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I try not to read too much into it, but there’s a bit of a bias, where you’re thought of as a mystical creature, which is a bit absurd. I have a great sense of humor — and a dark sense of humor — about everything, but it is a bit narrow-minded sometimes, where if they have a dwarf character, the shoes have to curl up at the end, he has this inherent wisdom, he isn’t sexual, all of that. You look at something like Snow White, and each of the dwarves is just one thing — this one sneezes, this one is angry, this one is tired. And that’s sometimes still true for modern-day stories. But it’s not just for dwarves, that could be the case for anybody, for women, for people of color. Right now it’s Middle Eastern people who are all playing terrorists. It’s short-sighted. But life is too short — no pun intended — to be interested in roles that haven’t got any meat to them.
Peter Dinklage on how fantasy depicts dwarves (via obsessionfull)  (via nunmoreblack) (via heronqueenblues)
(Reblogged from goddessofcheese)