Posted by shryve
at 08:02 AM on September 15, 2009
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In my history in the Fat-o-sphere I have managed to be banned from two Blogs\Forums.
The first was Big Fat Blog when it was under the ownership of Paul. My crime was questioning comments that were primarily made by fat women as the factual experiences of fat men. Seeing that in most of these debates Paul and myself were the only men in the conversation that most of their claims about fat men were invalid without more input from fat men. Paul at the time primarily the agreed with the women, but later in his "Reaching Out" post
he brought up many of my own points! Paul himself stated that he is on the smaller side of being fat, but I have seen few fat men agree with the usual statements that Fat Acceptance has had on the experiences of fat men.
The second time I have been banned from a blog\forum was this year on Dimensions\Magazine and this time it was fat women and their male fat admirer\fetishists that were describing the experiences of fat men, while any fat male trying to add disputing input was surrounded and attacked by superior numbers.
I am writing this because I just read a nice Blog Thread on The-F-Word.org. I like the support that I found in that thread (as well as many other threads) but I am always saddened by how long fat men have had to establish their correct history even in Fat Acceptance and not have the need of Fat Men of Fat Acceptance marginalized by others.
William
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