Joy Nash make a skit called Staircase Wit

It’s awesome!  Check it out.

http://myaimistrue.com/tag/size-positive

Nicole

Fantastic video! Thanks so much for giving us that. I’ve posted the video so that people can watch it right here. The first two “Fat Rants” are great too. Maybe I’ll see if I can find those.

I found the first two Fat Rants by Joy Nash and put them up.

Thanks so much for letting us know about them Nicole.

What do other people think of these videos? Has anyone ever used any of Joy’s awesome lines?

I have a response.  In her video, when Joy yells back at the (mostly) thin people that were bothering her, they were actually in the middle of making size prejudiced comments.  Go Joy! (its sort of like a crap boomerang - shoveling their personal crap back at ‘em)  She also did not take out the kids.  She educated them.  Just because a person is thin and goes near you doesn’t mean it’s ok to scream crap at them.  The issue is *size prejudice comments* which anyBody of any size can make.  Because I see a lot of thin people who get marginalized and screamed at for no reason while they are doing body positive and accepting behaviors.  And likely this approach is a “day off” strategy.  Nobody is an advocate trying to save the rest of the world everyday.  Everyone needs down time when it isn’t their job to teach or model.  Joy probably wouldn’t be effective as an advocate if she went to make a presentation and started screaming crap back at people.

Too bad fat advocacy seems to be about building a pro-fat socially sanctioned framework based on oppression models.  We fatties deserve what the skinnies have.  Except what the skinnies have is a system that requires scapegoats on which to shovel crap.  Reverse the words fat and thin.  Now the fatso’s rule the world.  The whole thing is an entitlement problem - when anyone does it.

It doesn’t matter how much you say this to the (so called) women’s movement, the black civil rights movement, the gay movement…. in a way all of these movements have stalled because they just don’t take in this feedback.  After a while no one bothers talking to them.  And that’s not discrimination.

Nicole, that is a very interesting argument.

A agree with you that a sense of entitlement, no matter the background of the person feeling entitled, often leaves people and groups marginalized. I think most often the sense of entitlement comes from long years of perceived (or real) abuse or perceived (or real) privilege. Whether or not it is justified to feel entitled, I think the realization that a sense of entitlement will hurt you much sooner than help you would be great.

In any group that advocates size acceptance, there needs to be an acceptance of all sizes. I once went to a group of fat people’s meeting (agenda was mostly social, partly political, I guess) with my friend here in Cali. She was ridiculed as a size 16 and I remember her being really sad because in the “real” world she feels fat and she said that for the “fat” world she was not fat enough. I felt awful for her.

Your point is well-made.