Marge Swanson, a fat acceptance activist who helped pioneer the concept of thin privilege, is dead from a heart attack. She was 34 years old. Swanson championed the notion that weight and health have no inherent connection. She enjoyed dying her hair bright colors, wearing glasses and dating African American men.
“It’s not that I’m thin-phobic,” she once told an audience on a college campus. “It’s just that curvy women have been enslaved and victimized by capitalists for far too long and yeah, I’m upset.”
Swanson was born the middle of five children to a working class family in rural West Virginia. She was overweight as a child, and by her senior year of high school weighed over 350 pounds. She would later describe her teenage years as the most difficult period of her life.
“People can be so intolerant of others,” she later wrote. “My classmates were such judgmental, privileged assholes.”
In college, Swanson found acceptance among a group of intersectional feminists. “First I learned to love myself, and that helped me become a happier person. Then I learned about white supremacy and thin privilege, and I got pissed.”
After finishing college, Swanson moved into a studio apartment. She had trouble securing a full-time job due to “systemic ableism,” so she started a blog. Within a year, she had attracted a worldwide audience. Swanson became a big voice in the fat acceptance community, where she sought to raise awareness about the impact of fat phobia, which includes expressing concern over someone’s size (“concern trolling“) or associating obesity with health issues.
“I don’t want to compare struggles, but Harriet Tubman fought a similar battle,” Swanson once told a reporter. “Women in larger bodies are seriously underrepresented among athletes and models. Oppression and discrimination are the only logical reasons why this is occurring.”
Some doctors, who Swanson called “psychological terrorists,” affirmed her message of self-acceptance but warned about the practice of endorsing unhealthy body types amidst skyrocketing obesity rates. Additional concerns were raised about the fat acceptance movement’s use of dangerously unscientific or misrepresented concepts, like the belief that weight and health have no clear relationship. The promotion of obesity, some have said, is no different than advocating for anorexia.
Tyler Roberts
>Marge Swanson
that's not her
Tyler Hughes
“When people learn that I’m 412 pounds, they assume that means I’m inactive or unhealthy,” she wrote in her blog last year. “I’m actually one of the most health conscious people you’ll ever meet. The myth that obesity has any relationship to health is absolutely ridiculous.” In 2015, Swanson was diagnosed with heart and gallbladder disease. The reality of her mortality, she claimed, only deepened her commitment to fight against weight related injustices.
“I may have a few bad cells, but my health has not been affected,” she told fans on her website. “Thin privilege is a far greater menace to health than having a few extra curves.”
>“I may have a few bad cells, but my health has not been affected,” she told fans on her website. “Thin privilege is a far greater menace to health than having a few extra curves.”
When you get to the bottom of a barrel full of denial and realise it was delicious fried chicken, so you open up another.
Aiden Garcia
At least he's getting a gastric bypass.
John Jenkins
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! This made my day. Can't make this shit up. If you wanna believe dumbass shit, be prepared to suffer the consequences for your poor choice. No amount of sugar coating it will help.
Lincoln Fisher
Health at every size is literally killing people.
Levi Bennett
Can he get those on your shekels?
Nolan Kelly
F
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Bentley Young
It was congenital, faggots. It had nothing to do with her weight. You morons are so gullible.
Isaac Rodriguez
It's satire you guys, as much as I wish it was real
We're so deep in this fucking rabbit hole of feminism that I almost couldn't tell by reading the article.
Andrew Martin
She's not dead, moron. You fucks are so gullible. Did you know we are invading Syria, and Russian subs are docked in LA?
Daniel Barnes
>Women in larger bodies are seriously underrepresented among athletes >Oppression and discrimination are the only logical reasons why this is occurring
death was too kind a punishment for someone so stupid.
Kevin Lee
>In college, Swanson found acceptance among a group of intersectional feminists. “First I learned to love myself, and that helped me become a happier person. Then I learned about white supremacy and thin privilege, and I got pissed.” >She had trouble securing a full-time job due to “systemic ableism,” so she started a blog. >“I don’t want to compare struggles, but Harriet Tubman fought a similar battle,”
this is satire
Leo Scott
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Leo Gray
Jesus Christ, I couldn't listen to that heavy breathing of hers for more than 2 minutes. It's like just walking on to the stage was tiring for her. What an awful way to live.
Lincoln Gray
>She enjoyed dying her hair bright colors, wearing glasses and dating African American men.
Marxism, not even once
Kayden Martin
Fake and GAY original article ran on (((liberal))) SATIRE website.
No it is real! That site got hacked by the Russians.
John Flores
Who keeps making this thread and to what purpose? Its always with the same picture, which isnt Marge Swanson.
Brody Williams
Hah!
Like the GRIDS denialists, dying from their own bad choices.
Adrian Campbell
>When you get to the bottom of a barrel full of denial and realise it was delicious fried chicken, so you open up another.
Fucking lol'd
Lincoln Rodriguez
>Women in larger bodies are seriously underrepresented among athletes
James Ward
Wait, that's the bitch from the /fit/ despair face maymay right?
FUCK YEAHHHH!!!
Grayson Ross
Sadly it's fake
The bitch in all the pics is Kelli drink water and she's alive
Moreove I could find any pic on Marge Swanson or any of her articles..... It's a cheap fake cooked up to discredit us Don't fall for it >INB4 WLT RIFHT NAZIS SPREAD FAKE PROPAGANDA TRYING TO DICREDIT FAT RIGHTS: CNN
Ethan Smith
Fat bald, fatty fat... fat fat!
Dylan Wright
Obese pride parade when?
Ryder Miller
This is the same woman that said being obese is healthy, right?
Charles Lopez
If you actually click your link you will learn that this never actually happened. All fake and the person in the picture while a fat activist is not dead.
Elijah Stewart
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Jonathan Mitchell
Wow that's crazy next thing I know you'll tell me a lgbt activist died from aids
Carter Ramirez
> “First I learned to love myself, and that helped me become a happier person." How can someone love themself when they are doing something so self-destructive?
Chase Jackson
>"big" voice in the fat acceptance community Is there any other kind?
Ethan Jackson
Bahahah, brilliant. Truly top keks.
I mean also RIP in theory, but... nah I have no more pity left for subversives like this.
Camden Walker
I always pity these fatso
but still, they did that to themselves
Gabriel Adams
>She had trouble securing a full-time job due to “systemic ableism, those employers that insist a person is able to move for 8 hours a day are a huge problem
>Get told your life style is pretty much killing you >Cover your ears and go LALALALALA >Actually fucking die cause of said lifestyle
Wonder what her last thoughts were.
Carson Bell
So was it the ableist white supremacist patriarchy islamophobes that killed her, or was it a big mac?
Nathan Cooper
So how the fuck is Boogie still alive?
Jayden Cruz
A death more Ironic than Paul Walker's
Julian Allen
He is on a diet :^)
William Long
Just means he'll die sooner for being incapable of following the strict diet that comes with getting the surgery.
Jonathan Perry
>it's a fake ...For what porpoise? Do libshits seriously think fatasses up and dying sounds unbelievable?
Ian Stewart
It turns out she may still be a live after all. Well, perhaps she can take this as a warning and change her life for the better. Oh and OP why gotta tease me like that?
