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Some fat women of color resist dominant beauty standards by creating intersectional frameworks for accepting fat women of all identities. [50] Fat women of color work to resist fetishization by the male gaze or those giving unwanted health advice, while also creating positive and accepting spaces for themselves. [51] [52]
The body positivity movement focuses largely on women, believing that women face more societal pressure to conform to beauty standards than men. [42] [43] Eating disorders are more common in women due to this social phenomenon. [43] Nevertheless, men may face societal pressures to fit into a masculine physical ideal.
The fat fetishism community has overlapped with body positivity and fat feminism movements. The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) has worked as an advocacy organization for fat people, but was partly formed to help male fat fetishists and other fat admirers (FAs) find fat women to date and have sex with. [4] [5]
Mainstream apparel companies market themselves as “body positive” but refuse to make clothes that fit the plus-size models on their own billboards. Social media, too, has provided a platform for positive representations of fat people and formed communities that make it easier to find each other.
Lee-ann Cordingley, a clinical sexologist and sex coach, suggests just practicing some racy words or phrases out loud when you’re alone so you can get more comfortable hearing yourself say them.
Jools Lebron, the TikTok star behind the "very mindful, very demure" catchphrase, is opening up about how the viral video changed her life. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: The Hapa Blonde ...
[80] Women are particularly active within the fat acceptance movement and membership of fat acceptance organizations is dominated by middle-class women in the heaviest 1–2% of the population. [81] Members have criticized the lack of representation in the movement from men, people of color, and people of lower socioeconomic status.
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