I’m curious

• Where did this stereotype about fat people being dirty, smelly, and lacking in basic hygiene come from? Do people just forget the thin people with body odor or who don’t take showers because “everyone knows” that thin people aren’t gross?
• When was it that someone decided that women needed to shave in order to be clean, beautiful, and acceptable?
• Why is it that few men shave their armpits, and yet men are never told that they’re neglecting basic hygiene for not doing so? And how can people deny that such a double standard is sexist?
• And I think the biggest question is, why is the internet so offended about the state of my armpits? And would they be so offended if this were not a fat acceptance blog?

Newsflash: it is not my job to be attractive to you. Anyone who thinks I should base my choices about my appearance on what they think is severely deluded.

lol you smell

Welcome, Something Awful forum goers, and thank you kindly for raising my hit count. Between being told that I should get it through my head that I smell, that not shaving means I must have eaten paint chips as a child, and that I obviously don’t pay attention to keeping my “fatcheese” under control (because people who don’t shave obviously don’t shower either, or something), and getting my first “well I don’t believe in fat acceptance but I want to tell you that diets don’t work, ~*~lifestyle changes~*~ do” comment, I feel like I’ve hit some big milestones in the fatosphere today. To celebrate, here’s a photo of one of my disgusting hairy armpits. You know, the ones that I don’t give a fuck what you think of.