marilyn monroe: stop using me as an excuse for...

8th February 2012

Quote reblogged from editor in chief since 1988 with 30,760 notes

marilyn monroe: stop using me as an excuse for being fat

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OH HEY, IT’S FAT SHAME.

It’s fat-shaming and downright nasty to tell someone that somebody they might look up to, who maybe gives them confidence, who makes them feel perhaps a little bit better about their body is actually just an ‘excuse’ for their disgusting, horrible, repulsive FATNESS. OH GOD NO, NOT FATNESS. YOU’RE OVERWEIGHT?! Well, then you MUST be looking for an excuse because you can’t possibly be HAPPY, or HEALTHY, or CONFIDENT. People are only fat because they’re fucking lazy, greedy pigs, so they need to find someone to say “HEY, LOOK, OVER THERE, SHE WAS FAT AND SUCCESSFUL, STOP PICKING ON MEEEE :(“. Bunch of whining slobs, who are they kidding? They’re fat and ugly and just plain grotesque and Marilyn would be turning in her grave to know that she might be helping fat people feel better about their bodies in a world that does nothing but shame, ridicule and insult them.

I mean, never mind the fact that Marilyn Monroe was actually something like a size six, so not reeaaally representative of anybody who’s plus-size. Never mind that she is still objectified and held up as a pinnacle of the ‘female form’; never mind that her image is still used to perpetuate harmful ideas about what women’s bodies SHOULD look like (remember girls, if you’re not a skinny-minnie, you MUST have an hourglass figure; you can’t possibly have body fat and small boobs, right?!?!?!?!).

Ugh, seriously, get fucked. And everyone who reblogged this thinking it was funny or ‘lolomg so right!’, and anyone who liked it: get the fuck out.

Tagged: fat shame body image body policing marilyn monroe feminism