hi everyone i hope you're all well so with the end of 2021 fast approaching thank god i've been
struggling to decide what to talk about for my final video of the year because trust me finding
content nowadays that i can actually talk about on youtube without big tech horribly suppressing
it is very very difficult and as many of you have probably noticed my last few videos have all been
deciding on a particular avenue of work activist describing and analyzing what their strand of the
wokey movement is all about then taking to tiktok finding the most ridiculous examples
and having a good giggle is this trend a total rebrand of my content no absolutely not
do i feel kind of dirty for leaning into this genre yes absolutely yes but here's the thing
by all metrics and i do mean actual metrics in my youtube's analytics you all seem to like it
and youtube doesn't seem to suppress it as much this is evident not only in terms of views and
engagement but also in terms of click-through rate nice more regular viewers are choosing to
watch this video helping to increase its reach now that has happened every time i have made
one of these videos recently then there was this poll i conducted in my community tab the other
day which indicated by a margin of 92 percent to 8 percent out of 1600 votes that yes you would
like my last video of the year to be another laughing at wacky work tick tock videos video
so everyone the results are in the numbers don't lie and here we are for my final video of 2021
doing just that although this will be my last one of these for a while i promise
we have to get back to some serious content in january this is a serious youtube channel
so what avenue of woki did i choose to dissect this time well before i do the dramatic vocal
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suggests today's avenue of woeful workness will be of course fat positivity tick tock and i'm not
talking about larger people who are taking strides to overcome insecurities and be comfortable in
their own skin i have no problem with that good for them i'm talking about fat positive political
activists there's a difference now i want to make one thing very clear as we launch ahead we
are not here today to cruelly laugh at fat people on the internet that is not what i'm about that is
not what this channel is about i have made fun of someone for their weight a total of
one time in my life and in retaliation for this particular person harassing and slut-shaming me
publicly for two months on twitter and even though she richly richly deserved the dish i served her
i still eventually apologized to her because i genuinely felt bad about it okay we are not here
to make fun of fat people for being fat so please please don't type any cruel remarks about people's
weight in the comments section i don't want to see it what we are going to comment on instead
are the ideas expressed by these fat positivity political activists see i've realized that the
fad positivity movement is a lot more complex than a bunch of test holidays trying to glorify
obesity as as is the general perception of fat positive activists there is a real identity
politics flavor to the movement almost as much as we see in critical race theory feminism radical
gender theory and all of the rest they talk about the same things like systemic oppression
straight-sized bodies which i i gather is a term that they have borrowed from you know gay
or straight there's obviously a lot shared with feminism but there's also a direct intersection
with so-called racial justice activists the weird and racist history of the bmi and there is even
believe it or not adjacent terminology with lgbt activism in terms of fatness instead of sexuality
or gender quite literally being a spectrum so as we all know fatness exists on a spectrum so fat
people have created terminology that will help explain the different parts of the spectrum a
little bit better this is a little easy chart uh made by fat lip dot ash on instagram now
i don't know whether you can actually justify the fat positivity movement sitting in the same
identity politics cultural marxist space as the other identities on the oppression pyramid
or if they have simply co-opted the terminology to fit in or if it's a little bit of both
but either way these fat positive activists are as narcissistic as the activists on non-binary tick
tock that i talked about a few weeks ago and as oppression obsessed as crt and feminist tick-tock
but there is an awful lot of mental illness in this movement quite seriously and it is much more
pronounced than in all the other work movements and to be honest it is really alarming i have no
real idea of what i look like why does she look so different from her now this is really horrible
and should not be ignored so excluding the very real and very sad cases of genuine mental illness
within this movement fat positivity activists have something in spades that the other identity
politics movements comparatively have in teaspoons entitlement specifically entitlement to be desired
in a sexual way because apparently if you don't find fat bodies hot that's just a symptom of your
inherent fat phobia and you need to unlearn it and speaking of fat phobia watching these
activist videos has quite seriously made me realize that i am in fact fatphobic not in
the sense that i hate fat people but in the sense that i am terrified of being fat because that as
i have learnt is also apparently fat phobic so yes because of a combination of vanity the fact
that i'm on screen a lot and my own history of disordered eating i am terrified of getting fat
now is this the kind of fat phobia that as a thin person these fat positive activists would insist
i do a kind of groveling mayor culpa to unlearn it in the same way critical race theorists insist
that white people need to unlearn their inherent racism and white supremacy no absolutely not i
am a screen personality i'm not going to apologize for being vain and vaguely egocentric but at least
i can acknowledge and appreciate that i have an issue right anyway i have selected a few tick tock
videos from fat positive activists that i feel demonstrate the ideological tropes that i have
just described and trust me some of it really does need to be seen to be believed here we go hey i'm
ava and here's my hot take for nonu once november there's no such thing as mid-size you are a small
fat okay stop using the hashtag stop distancing yourself from fatness it's fat phobia and it's
ugly what is small fat like what is what is small fat i mean i've heard that term used before
i think it was used you know in my intro when i showed that girl who showed that girl who had like
the fat spectrum um yeah i'm guessing it's sort of like you know size 14 to 16 but like i think
it's a little bit rich that a movement that aligns itself so heavily with feminism is telling women
what they should and shouldn't label their bodies and giving them an ultimatum that it's somehow
prejudiced or fat phobic to say that they are mid-sized instead of small fat so but again you
see look at the terminology this is a political movement we're talking about like i can't see
you as a kardashian a bucket of like haagen-dazs ice cream like i'm so just because you were shamed
by your fat phobic family to lose weight doesn't mean you get to come after anyone else oh shaming
people for their food choices perpetuates the problem i'm gonna need you to sit down and shut up
oh wow um does that not remind you of like every male feminist or white savior who's ever come out
in defense of a woman or or a black person you know riding in on their on their shiny horse
to do that i mean that looks like a very thin woman um yeah i don't know does she really need
to enter into this kind of debate i guess she considers herself sort of like i guess you call
a fat ally but um yeah even so it's got a very kind of white savior male feminist feel about it
i'm so sick of mainstream body positivity because most mainstream body positivity is just straight
sized people reassuring other straight sized people that they aren't fat oh okay it's just
a bunch of people saying things like you're not fat you're bloated you're not fat that's where
your uterus is literally any excuse just to reassure their followers that their worst fear
hasn't come true like me so i just want to be really clear about something i am not interested
in soothing your fear of being fat i am interested in creating a world that has
no reason to fear fatness okay i'm interested in seeing fat people treated with dignity and respect
i'm interested in seeing fat people gain access to the rights and resources we're currently denied
i'm interested in seeing fat people gain full and uninhibited access to healthcare employment
travel clothing and more that world is possible and that's what we should be working toward
okay um she was actually making very good points for part of that video and she talked about
mainstream body positivity she's basically talking about like normal sized women who go see look
that's that's just my my you know relaxed tricep oh there's my my uterus is there i'm not fat like
she's i've seen those videos and she's actually right so but she says she had me right up until
she started talking about you know fat people being denied rights for instance i mean seriously
tell me where where it's like when people say oh women don't have the same right as men yes they do
please find me a law that discriminates against fat people and hey look i mean that quite
sincerely perhaps there is one if i'm wrong please correct me in the comment section but um resources
i understand what she means um in terms i think fat people i've heard a lot of these activists say
have trouble getting health insurance but again it's like smokers you know it's going to be harder
to give a smoker health insurance because they're doing an activity that can cause a lot of problems
i'm similarly giving a very overweight person health assurance that health insurance might put
some insurers off because being very overweight can increase your risk of heart disease etc so
there is that but um either way it it is just all tied into the oh fat people are so a press kind
of narrative but um i actually like her blue hair for the record i think it brings her out
it brings out her eyes if they're healthy or they're not and if you say that that's not true
i'll kick you in the cross oh you say you're just concerned but i know that's insincere
and if you don't stop trolling i will kick you in the rear then this is not a virtue and there's no
reason to bloat and if you post the before and after i'll kick you in the dirt i guessed it
and you deserve
then you have some work to do
i'm feeling very attacked right now so perhaps i have some work to do but then again
they were using a lot of violent inferences in there look i i find it very um it's very
creative it's very colorful it's a nice little rhyme i i was having a very visceral reaction
to the slapping of the tummies because i can imagine no matter what size your tummy is that
would really hurt after a while but look um at least it's it's creative and visual but i really
do not like the violent references and i think they could really do without okay nice dancing
there's not a lot of commitment to the dancing it's a problem
okay um let me just read out this list here like you know in case you can't see it because it
is it is just like so massively into the id pole stuff so you've got treat fat people with respect
and dignity okay um call out fedphobia when you hear and see it it's exactly like feminists and
racial activists say call out sexism and racism whenever you hear and see it
seek out fat stories from fat people again it's like seek out
black stories from black people just change fat to either woman or or black and it is like the same
believe fat people what an earth is that supposed to mean like what believe women
like i believe them about believe fed people about what ask restaurants buzz special events fear
sorry let me say that again ask restaurants bars special event venues etc to provide size inclusive
seating options so i'm guessing that's like larger chairs or chairs without
arm rest and take fat friends and family to fat accessible spaces what is a fat accessible space
i don't understand any of that these are my arms oh it's another musical one
but it's okay because these strong arms help me to shake and groove this is my
tongue i can give it a squish it holds all the important parts of me including my favorite dish
my beauty spots have stayed a while my eyes can see my nose can smell
and my lips allow me to smile this is my beautiful body as clear as day can see
and while it might not be perfect it was made just for me
okay i don't actually have a problem with that as a piece of fat positive activism
um yes it was in fantasy she's a very nice singing voice it's it's very positive um i like the fact
she focuses on your body being functional because the thing is you know if you're having a uh
if i was once told for instance like you know if you're having a sort of insecure
body day just just think how functional it is you know it's it's functional it's
which is good it's very good to have a functional body so yeah ultimately if you want to do like a
fat positive activism video that's a good way of doing it well there you have it everyone
that is the best of fat positive tick tock quite extraordinary indeed i'm sure you can all agree
with me that it is a multi-faceted multi-layered movement much more so than we originally thought
let me know what you think in the comments section and also please have a happy wonderful
safe fantastic excellent 2022. happy new year to you all and i will see you all in my next video
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