THIS IS A BLOG ABOUT VISIBILITY

This is a body positive blog that aims to showcase fat and chubby male- (and occasionally genderqueer)-identified people of color. The purpose of this blog is to promote people of all sizes, shapes and (most) colors and show the beauty and diversity in all bodies, while also occasionally discussing the topics of size and race, separately and intersectionally.

This blog was started with the intentions and aspirations of fillings the gaps between female-oriented body-positive blogs and the overwhelmingly white-centric bear blogs (that also excluded fat and chubby men who are not bears). While many of the people featured here may fall under the umbrella term of 'bear', it should be clear that this is NOT a bear blog.

Please feel free to submit your own pictures or any relevant articles here. Note: if you do not self-identify as a person of color, please participate as spectator only. Submissions of white-presenting people will not be posted. HOWEVER, if you are a white-presenting or light-skinned person of color, you are more than welcome to submit! We encourage all submissions to include background information about your heritage and identity, and this would be especially helpful in these cases.

Your support of FYCGOC is tremendously appreciated, and we hope you enjoy your stay.

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Fuck Yeah Chubby Guys of Color

Why is it accepted that some people who eat a ton of food can stay thin, but not accepted that some people who eat a small amount of food can be fat?

Since thin people get diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure, why is becoming thin suggested as a cure?

Why bother using BMI as a substitute for metabolic health measures when we can easily test metabolic health measures?

Doctors treat thin people for joint pain with options other than weight loss, why don’t they give fat people those same treatments?

Why do we believe that doing unhealthy things (liquid diet, smoking, urine injections coupled with starvation, stomach amputation) will lead to a healthy body?

If the diet industry’s product actually “cured fatness”, wouldn’t their profits be going down instead of up as more and more people were permanently thin?

Isn’t it medically unethical to prescribe something without telling your patients that it works less than 5% of the time with a much greater chance at leaving you heavier and less healthy than when you started?

Why do people continue to think that shaming people will lead them to health?

Why do we accept wide variations in things like foot and hand size, nose and lip shape etc. but expect every body to fit into a very narrow proportion of height and weight?

If weight gain isn’t proven to cause diabetes, high blood pressure etc., why would weight loss be recommended as a cure?

Since weight loss ads have to carry a “results not typical” warning, shouldn’t doctors have to give patients a similar warning?

Why do people take the time to come to my blog and make death threats?

Does anyone really succeed at hating themselves healthy? If so is it worth it?

If we’ve been prescribing dieting since the 1800s and still can’t prove that it works, shouldn’t we be trying something else?

How is it possible that suggesting that healthy habits are the best chance for a healthy body is controversial?

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