২৪ জুন, ২০২৪

"Fat Beach Day... is being held to coincide with Pride month at Jacob Riis Beach in New York, a location deeply ensconced in the city’s activism space..."

I'm reading "New York’s Fat Beach Day gives plus-size people a space to be themselves/Jacob Riis Beach hosts the day of body positivity and fun, in the city at the heart of the fat acceptance movement" (The Guardian).

I didn't know that fat acceptance was part of what Pride month is about or that New York had something it wanted to call its "activism space." 
... New York has, for decades, been at the heart of the fat acceptance movement. In the 1960s, about 500 protesters held a “fat-in” in Central Park, burning diet books and photographs of the supermodel Twiggy, to publicly encourage body positivity and liberation.... 
Jacob Riis Beach is named after Jacob Riis, the "Danish-American social reformer, 'muckraking' journalist, and social documentary photographer" (Wikipedia). There is some criticism of Riis, you know. This doesn't have to do with fatness. The people in Riis's photographs were skinny — poor people living in tenements.
Libertarian economist Thomas Sowell (2001) argues that immigrants during Riis's time were typically willing to live in cramped, unpleasant circumstances as a deliberate short-term strategy that allowed them to save more than half their earnings to help family members come to America, with every intention of relocating to more comfortable lodgings eventually. Many tenement renters physically resisted the well-intentioned relocation efforts of reformers like Riis, states Sowell, because other lodgings were too costly to allow for the high rate of savings possible in the tenements...

The harshest criticisms that Riis faced was for his depictions of Eastern European Jews.... Fried (1997)... argues that the undertone to [much] of Riis' work was “the image of Jews as alien, exotic, unassimilable race, and a people resistant to the promises of Christian universalism." Riis' written work about the Jews invoked anti-semitic tropes such as saying “money is their god.” Additionally, Riis saw the Jews as antiquated and mysterious. He called the area of the Lower East Side with the most Jewish immigrants, Jewtown, with a “omnipresent and unfathomable peddler” harking back to the trope of the Jewish usurer, and that entering a Jewish house of mourning meant “going back 2000 years."...

The Jews weren't the only immigrant group he stereotyped in his work in an effort to explain why these groups “hindered the growth of a uniform culture." In Riis's books, according to some historians, "The Jews are nervous and inquisitive, the Orientals are sinister, the Italians are unsanitary." For example, early on in his career he stated that “the Chinese must go” and then 20 years later “only as regards to the Asiatic we have made a flat verdict of exclusion” Riis also criticized Italian immigrants stating that they “reproduce conditions of destitution and disorder.”

৮০টি মন্তব্য:

Gusty Winds বলেছেন...

You'd think Wisconsin and Michigan would lead the way for the fat acceptance movement.

rehajm বলেছেন...

burning diet books and photographs of the supermodel Twiggy, to publicly encourage body positivity and liberation

…so these MFs believe skinny shaming is A-okay!

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves বলেছেন...

American decadence.

stonethrower বলেছেন...

They're gonna need a bigger beach.

wendybar বলেছেন...

More victims. Wahhhhhhh.

Cappy বলেছেন...

Eewww

Christopher B বলেছেন...

As far as I can tell, Fat Beach Day is any day ending in Y given the level of obesity in the American population.

rhhardin বলেছেন...

Fat acceptance ties in to pride month because of lesbians.

Humperdink বলেছেন...

Next Saturday is STD Day. Swimsuit not required.

rhhardin বলেছেন...

You don't need lifeguards on fat beach day.

Jamie বলেছেন...

A random day at the beach - just about any beach - suggests to me that plus-size people don't need a special time or place to "be themselves."

Man, I hate Pride Month. Why should we be proud of the particular traits its increasingly incoherent flag stands for? It's like being proud of being right-handed or allergic to peanuts.

Aggie বলেছেন...

One day to celebrate the founding fathers, and entire months for special interests. Congress will have to pass an act to generate more months in a year, so they don't have to share grifting space.

Jersey Fled বলেছেন...

Is there anything that’s bad for your health that we’re not supposed to acknowledge and endorse today?

jaydub বলেছেন...

The photographer missed the true story. Shortly after this photo was snapped the Riis Beach "Save the Whales" chapter arrived and mistakenly dragged this person back into the water.

Jamie বলেছেন...

By the way, stonethrower, well done!

Look, I am not on this earth to mock people of size any more than I'm here to mock anyone else. But it's just not good to pretend that being overweight is either innate (I would argue for a genetic tendency but not for fat as a truly immutable characteristic), innately attractive, or healthy - and it's offensive to demand that everyone mouth these sentiments, just like everything else we're supposed to "celebrate" in this month of celebrating non sequiturs.

Bob Boyd বলেছেন...

It would be better to prioritize resources for researching the gut microbiome.

tim maguire বলেছেন...

The alphabet mafia has gotten so complicated that it's usually abbreviated.* This makes it impossible to be sure who is included and who isn't. BUT, so far as I know, there is no F in the letter chain.

*Since the abbreviation is made by simply cutting off an indeterminate number of letters from the end and placing a "+" after the last included letter, this has led to some competition for who comes first. In Canada, it is 2SLGBT...+ because Indigenous pandering comes first over all other kinds of pandering.

Tacitus বলেছেন...

Over in Oregon they are quite Proud of the whole exploding whale fiasco. There is an Exploding Whale Day... https://www.xplodingwhale.com/

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RideSpaceMountain বলেছেন...

Listen fat...

Levi Starks বলেছেন...

In view of massive worldwide death toll from starvation I’d like to make a modest proposal.

tcrosse বলেছেন...

Traditional Body Positivity Anthem

Yancey Ward বলেছেন...

Did Save the Whales ever finally stop showing up for this event?

Yancey Ward বলেছেন...

Well, fuck me- others already beat me to it.

Bob Boyd বলেছেন...

Fat activists are trying to piggyback on Pride Month.

Enigma বলেছেন...

XYZ "Acceptance" has become the left's ideological purity test. As such, conformity with such nonsense reveals either blind faith or a cognitive defect.

Fatness = unhealthy
Fatness = likely to die during surgery
Fatness = likely to have knee, hip, and mobility issues
Fatness = shorter lives
Fatness = unable to fit in vehicles or plane/train/bus seats

I propose this be redone as "Fatness reality check day," "Make an activist look foolish in public day," and "Mental illness call out month."

mindnumbrobot বলেছেন...

Meh. Most Americans are overweight, so Fat Beach Day is just another day at the, er, beach. Now, Fat Beach Day at the nude beach?! That would be cause for concern.

Bob Boyd বলেছেন...

What deep emotions stirred within Nadler when he opened his invitation to Fat Beach Day?

Leland বলেছেন...

activism space

Sounds like "free speech zones", where the Constitutional Right to Free Speech was limited to certain areas by governmental organizations. Here, it seems limited to a time and place. Which probably works for those supporting Pride Month and Fat Beach Day, because both like being limiting themselves by certain identifying characteristics. Why not further limit themselves to a time and place?

Bob Boyd বলেছেন...

People with food trucks love this idea.

RCOCEAN II বলেছেন...

Hello? Being fat is unhealthy. And being really fat is really unhealthy. Its why its called morbid obesity.And if you're a women and you have big gut you're unattractive and that's never going to change.

As for criticism of Riis, this sort of thing drives me crazy. Basically, they're asserting Riis should have lied about what he saw in the Lower east side. Or covered it up. Because NO criticism of Jews is allowed. Telling the truth about Jews that puts them in a bad light is NOT allowed. Telling the truth that might lead someone to think bad thoughts about Jews is NOT allowed.

This strikes me as insane and I have zero idea why any non-Jew would go along with it. But then I remember most 'muricans, don't read, dont think, dont have a religion, and don't have a country. They're just unthinking consumer blobs who live in the USA.

tommyesq বলেছেন...

So they burned photographs of a particular person chosen on the basis of that person's appearance to promote body positivity?? Why do these "positivity" movements always seem to involve so much negativity towards others?

gilbar বলেছেন...

i'm obese (250.3 lbs this morning)..
Know what's Helping ME stay alive? LOSING Weight (120 lbs in the last 23 months (374.4lbs 7/22)
Know what WASN'T Helping keep me alive? "fat acceptance" and "body positivity"

If you LOVE an Morbidly Obese person.. Tell them they are KILLING THEMSELVES

Achilles বলেছেন...

I didn't know that fat acceptance was part of what Pride month is about or that New York had something it wanted to call its "activism space."

Pride month and "fat activisim" is what Feminism turned into.

Feminism was wildly successful.

Women had a good deal with society strictly enforcing monogamous marriage and two parent families. This gave women a path to fulfillment. They traded that in for work, loneliness, and single parenting with government support so they can be harem girls for the first 30 years of their life.

But women managed to prove why we can't have nice things. Similar to what the WNBA is doing to Caitlin Clark.

They are just doing the same thing with the LGB. They added the TIQ and + to make them toxic. The LGB had it pretty good but the leftists are ruining it for them too. Now they are associated with the pedos like Chuck.

Apparently fat people are now part of the fold... =D

Oligonicella বলেছেন...

Thank you, Tacitus. That was hilarious.

Firstgen বলেছেন...

Not surprisingly, Jordan Underwood, the organizer is a "them" in the Guardian article (the first sentence
of which is preciously woke) but the photos make clear that "them" is a "she."

Why she chose to be photographed like a beached whale is a mystery to me.

AMDG বলেছেন...

I think I will watch the “Marine Biologist” episode from Seinfeld.

Oligonicella বলেছেন...

OK, time for this again.

Oligonicella বলেছেন...

@gilbar - Once again, kudos on your weight loss. I've watched your numbers as you've posted them. Keep going.

n.n বলেছেন...

Trans- refers to a state or process of divergence from gender (i.e. sex-correlated attributes), from healthy (e.g. body mass index), thus a pride month to celebrate trans/homosexuals, trans/pseudos, trans/socials, and trans/fats, too, under an albinophobic banner in a hate crime targeting a minority by the color of their skin. #SSBLM

Narr বলেছেন...

Fat Fat the Water Rat Day.

n.n বলেছেন...

Feminism was wildly successful.

A class-disordered ideology that progressed to keep women affordable, available, reusable, and taxable, and the carbon "burden" of evidence sequestered in darkness under a Planned corporate charter and political party.

MadisonMan বলেছেন...

I'll be on a beach tonight. Maybe I'll see fat people. They can enjoy the sun and waves just like anyone else. I will simply be happy that I don't share their excess avoirdupois.
Not a fan of the overuse of "pride" or -- especially -- "proudly" as in "We Proudly serve xyz coffee" as IF the barista is glowing with pride as they grind up the beans (maximum eyeroll from me). I see this "We proudly do..." everywhere. Stop.

narciso বলেছেন...

Goggles theh do nothin

Robert Marshall বলেছেন...

I recently spent the hot part of the day at a water park on Jekyll Island, GA, with my two grandkids (10 and 12) and family. It could have been a fat acceptance day, for all I know; there was plenty of rotundity on display.

Equally off-putting was the tattoo "artistry" on display: UGH-lee! I'm guessing that a lot of the ink happened when these folks were younger than now, and that the piling-on of the fat since then resulted in shape distortion of those original images, often to the point of provoking "what-the-hell-is-that" questions. And of course, everything colorful that once was, is now just dull blue.

But the water slides were steep, fast and fun!

MadTownGuy বলেছেন...

"... New York has, for decades, been at the heart of the fat acceptance movement. In the 1960s, about 500 protesters held a “fat-in” in Central Park, burning diet books and photographs of the supermodel Twiggy, to publicly encourage body positivity and liberation...."

And here I thought only conservatives were the ones burning books. Fahrenheit 451...lbs.

William বলেছেন...

I take a lot of pride in NOT being fat. I live in a pizza rich environment. There are bakeries and pizza parlors on every street. Sometimes I get withdrawal pains when I walk by them, but I walk by them. It's truly amazing how good cheap food tastes and how it is everywhere. It really does take character and restraint to not get fat....It's easy not being a libertine. There isn't that much temptation, especially for octogenarians, but food temptations come at you from all sides at every waking moment. Gluttony is my last surviving vice, and I take pride in its mastery.

Oro Valley Tom বলেছেন...

As long as we're not worrying about health, how about cigarette-smoking acceptance day?

gilbar বলেছেন...

Oligonicella said...
Once again, kudos on your weight loss. I've watched your numbers as you've posted them. Keep going.

Once again, thank YOU for the support. weight-loss acceptance & (smaller)body-positivity is a REAL thing.
Other people's feeling influence me, and help me keep counting carbs and exercising.
It's Hard to Imagine that it wouldn't work the other way too.

Old and slow বলেছেন...

RCOCEAN II, your obsession with Jews is really unhealthy and reveals much about you. You'd be much better off just shutting the fuck up.

n.n বলেছেন...

Fat Bitc... Day h/t NAACP.

fairmarketvalue বলেছেন...

@gilbar: At 5'9", I weighed in at 220 until I had my open heart surgery in 2019. I now weigh 170. I think I would prefer your weight loss program over mine. Keep up the great work!

RCOCEAN II বলেছেন...

Obesity is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes. A 2020 study found that people with a BMI of 30–35 had a five times higher risk of type 2 diabetes than people with a normal BMI, and people with a BMI of 40–45 had a 12 times higher risk.

Original Mike বলেছেন...

'Pride' is for things you've accomplished, not things you are.

Losing sight of this is not healthy for our society.

Leland বলেছেন...

Blogger Oro Valley Tom said...
As long as we're not worrying about health, how about cigarette-smoking acceptance day?


No. Cigarette implies tobacco, and you can't smoke it, because big brother says so. However, roll a joint and light up.

Kevin বলেছেন...

What's the problem with "Fat Beach Day" in NY?

Oh, it's BEACH.

Yeah, I can see the confusion.

Yancey Ward বলেছেন...

"As long as we're not worrying about health, how about cigarette-smoking acceptance day?"

What are you- a domestic terrorist?

Quaestor বলেছেন...

rhhardin writes. "Fat acceptance ties into pride month because of lesbians."

Give that man a cigar!

JK Brown বলেছেন...

The bit on Riis reminded me of this article from 1908, I read a few years back. Quite revealing of the early NYC and immigration. Also, some proposed changed in policing that is now common practice.


FOREIGN CRIMINALS IN NEW YORK.
BY POLICE COMMISSIONER THEODORE A. BINGHAM.

When the circumstance is taken into consideration that eighty
five per cent, of the population of New York City is either
foreign-born or of foreign parentage, and that nearly half of
the residents of the five boroughs do not speak the English lan
guage, it is only a logical condition that something like eighty
five out of one hundred of our criminals should be found to be
of exotic origin. In no one police precinct on Manhattan Island
does the percentage of native-born heads of families reach 50?
the highest, 45.44 being in the West Side district lying between
Forty-second and Eighty-sixth Streets and Eighth Avenue and
the North River, and the lowest, 3.12, in the densely congested
East Side quarter, largely peopled by Russian Hebrews, bounded
by East Broadway, the Bowery and Houston and Norfolk Streets.
Wherefore it is not astonishing that with a million Hebrews,
mostly Russian, in the city (one-quarter of the population), per
haps half of the criminals should be of that race, when we con
sider that ignorance of the language, more particularly among
men not physically fit for hard labor, is conducive to crime;
nor is it strange that in the precinct where there are not four
native-born heads of families in every hundred families, the per
centage of criminality is high.


Foreign Criminals in New York
Author(s): Theodore A. Bingham
Source: The North American Review, Vol. 188, No. 634 (Sep., 1908), pp. 383-394
Published by: University of Northern Iowa
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25106203

PM বলেছেন...

I love how everything gay is 'deeply' something.
But I do like the pun "Fat Beach". wah-wah.

Joe Smith বলেছেন...

Harpoons have been banned from this event.

-- The Management

Joe Smith বলেছেন...

'Man, I hate Pride Month. Why should we be proud of the particular traits its increasingly incoherent flag stands for? It's like being proud of being right-handed or allergic to peanuts.'

Also, the radical gays push sexuality above all.

So the message I'm getting is "I'm proud that I fuck other men in the ass."

Not an appealing message.

Nicholas বলেছেন...

Fat Beach Day is going to have to be followed by Mind Bleach Day.

ALP বলেছেন...

Jamie said: Man, I hate Pride Month.


I am between jobs and happy I don't have to feign excitement at Pride Month for four weeks at work. These days, I consider such events the same as the NCAA brackets, the Super Bowl or the Oscars: I am very happy you are enjoying life but please don't expect passionate emotion out of me for your thing while I am working. I think far too often, acceptance of something is assumed to be interest.

Oligonicella বলেছেন...

While BMI can be somewhat useful if you're already looking at an obviously out of shape individual, keep in mind the formula is simply:
BMI = weight (kg) / height (m)2, if using metric units
BMI = (weight (lb) / height (in)2) x 703, if using imperial units
BMI is an estimate of total body fat and a measure of health risk

That last is only partially true, as the attached article states "Body mass index (BMI) is a tool that healthcare providers use to estimate the amount of body fat by using your height and weight measurements. It can help assess risk factors for certain health conditions. The BMI is not always an accurate representation of body fatness."

Power lifter at the gym daily. @5'9", 230lb = BMI 34 - obese
Office worker who sits all day @5'9", 230lb = BMI 34 - obese

When I was running my stunt show I was 6'1", 215lb = BMI 28.4 - overweight. The bank required everyone to take a physical and the tiny Indian doctor fed me those stats and suggested I lose 25lb, so I simply stood, removed my shirt and dropped my pants and said "Where should I lose the weight?" No response.

Doctors are just as prone to taking lazy shortcuts as anyone else.

RNB বলেছেন...

Tim Maguire wrote: "The alphabet mafia has gotten so complicated..." I'm calling it the ABSP Movement. That's 'Anybody But Straight People.'

effinayright বলেছেন...

RCOCEAN II said:

"But then I remember most 'muricans, don't read, dont think, dont have a religion, and don't have a country. They're just unthinking consumer blobs who live in the USA."
*******************

Yet the Jews you hate do read, do think a lot (Spinoza, Einstein, Feynman, Kafka, Bergson, Bohr et al), certainly "have" a religion, AND a country to boot.

As it's often been said, when you go through life thinking everyone's an asshole, you're the asshole.

Narayanan বলেছেন...

do seals and hwales come up to cavort with them

n.n বলেছেন...

I hate Pride Month

Lions, lionesses, and their unPlanned cubs in gay parade. I think albinophobia, a hate crime targeting a minority, is a transgendered abd sympathetic interest thing, because the lions are equitable and inclusive.

JaimeRoberto বলেছেন...

We were in New York just a couple weeks ago. I don't recall seeing many fat people. Our AirBnB was in an old tenement in the Bowery. I doubt fat people could have squeezed down the narrow hallway.

damikesc বলেছেন...

Sadly, the West is crippled with weaponized empathy.

Nobody can be criticized because feelings might, in fact, get hurt.

That large pharmaceutical companies are funding some of these "fat acceptance" groups shows how much they care about people.

Iman বলেছেন...

Choose life! ya fat bastids.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent বলেছেন...


"I didn't know that fat acceptance was part of what Pride month is about"

It's a head-scratcher.

I was on the CPUSA website the other day and there was a photo of a group of pro-Hamas protestors. Three fat old White hippies, a trans-y guy, a sullen Black chick, and an agonizingly uptight White girl with a mask. It isn't hard to see why there are people clamoring to crowd under the Pride umbrella.

Iman বলেছেন...

“sullen Black chick, and an agonizingly uptight White girl with a mask.”

An over abundance of them in our fair land.

Jamie বলেছেন...

Also, the radical gays push sexuality above all.

And your line after that one, which I'd rather not repeat though I agree with it.

This is really the crux of what I was saying - I was just trying not to be indecorous. "Pride" in your preferred sex partners is just dumb.

FullMoon বলেছেন...

TV commercial this morning soliciting donations to feed middle easterners.
Burka hijab clad mothers
Emaciated, teary-wide-eyed children.
Melancholy music.
Somber female narration.


Followed immediately by Weight Watchers commercial:
Happy, smiling, dancing ,American chubbies
Upbeat music
Joyful narration.

Must be some kinda subtle message here..





Tim বলেছেন...

Laate to the party, I know, but I'm pretty sure everyday is Fat Day at the beach.

Iman বলেছেন...

“FAT!!!”

—- P0TATUS Biden

MartyH বলেছেন...

I’d like to get the following data:

The average weight of the participants in the 1960’s protests compared to today’s;

And the lifespan of the 1960s protestors.

I’d bet that people considered fat in the 1960’s would be of average weight today, and that 1960’s protesters’ did not live as long, on average, as their peers did.

Bunkypotatohead বলেছেন...

Once a cheap generic version of ozempic comes along, most of this problem will disappear.
All those fatties will want to "transition" to thinness.

rkeva বলেছেন...

It's just Pride, Inc. expanding the product line. You know, like Oreos.