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Hello, Fellow Gym-Goers, Look at My Fat Butt | xoJane

And that’s why it is politically transgressive to simply be fat and happy in public. It is against all the rules.

So I’m deeply familiar with the sentiments in Emily Anderson’s essay about being fat at the gym:

“Being a fat woman at the gym is in itself an act of social disobedience. I shouldn’t be in there, taking up the space of the lithe-bodied, unless it’s with a face of sincere penance and shame. But I have claimed the gym as my own. I celebrate being visible and fat all over the gym—running and sweating and sometimes breaking into song, lifting dumbbells alongside muscle-laden men with uncompleted tribal band bicep tattoos, flinging my weight around in aerobics and finally cooling it poolside in my bright, non-apple-body-shape flattering tankini.”

I smile and chat with women before yoga and mention how hungry I always am after class and can’t wait to eat. I want to be seen. I am fat and happy in places where I should be fat and shameful, and denying this stereotype is a political action in my eyes.

Hello, Fellow Gym-Goers, Look at My Fat Butt | xoJane.

November 30th, 2012 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment |

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