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My name is Melissa Ava Bello and today. We'll be talking about my stomach. I'm not fat. I'm big-boned
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Welcome to the Brad Lang show I am Brad Lang and I like big butts I
Cannot lie, but all asses are not created equal this week
We're going to dig into a body positivity body politics and cancer I mean
intersectional feminism channel
Melissa a fellow youtuber
writer feminist and a doctoral candidate in human sexuality
Sunday's gonna have a bright future there
She's also the managing editor or former managing editor of everyday feminism. Oh this should be
Amazing you see after you left a website that is on the brink of collapse because you know
Patriarchy you branched out. I came across what I assume
Was intended to be a series called beauty school
But she only has one video in the playlist and that's in the past month or so, so we'll work with what we've got
So about two weeks ago on October 18th. She published the first video for the series
Widening the lens on body oppression. Let's have a look my stomach and I have a complicated relationship
It loves and respects me and does all of the amazing things. It's supposed to do the organ it holds
Helps me digest food and my core keeps me from like
Falling down like I'm glad all that research is really sticking with you
My stomach generally speaking does not fail me, but I sure as hell fail it and I don't really like it very much
I have like two little ABS instead of an Instagram worthy core and my waist I feel like doesn't quite curve in enough
Pants give me muffin tops half the time by the end of the day I feel bloated
It's just like not my favorite part of my body. Okay. These are all
personal body image issues
I mean it's okay to not like your body because that can be a catalyst to improve yourself, but that's not what she does
That struggle is legitimate
I'm a queer woman living in a patriarchal heteronormative society and capitalism as hell doesn't help whoa whoa whoa?
What did capitalism ever do to you sure the struggle is?
Legitimate I've said repeatedly that I am basically jello held together with skin
but it has nothing to do with being queer or the
patriarchy or
heteronormativity and
Capitalism didn't do this to you
It's because of capitalism that you're making a career of this nonsense
In a fat phobic diet culture where we're sold the thin ideal is not just a beauty standard, but also proof of our worth
It's normal to feel like you can never be skinny enough never be pretty enough fat phobic diet culture
Phobic look nobody is afraid of fat people at least not in the same sense as I'm afraid of wasps
The thin ideal that's purely
Cultural and based on what is most attractive to the most
people that's why it's on magazine covers and commercials not because of
capitalism wanting everyone to hate fat people
But because most people like looking at attractive fit people
That's real
Yeah
But because body image is such a personal experience
And because most of us struggle to appreciate the body that we move through the world with
It's easy to get stuck in the minutiae of our own personal battles
But why shouldn't you I mean body image, and the struggles you have
With it or just that they're your own personal battles you should fight them
Particularly as white thin conventionally attractive women wait what?
So thin white attractive women are struggling with this and weren't you just talking about fat phobia?
But let's zoom out for a second
Because learning to accept our bodies is not and cannot be the focus of body
Liberation movements we need to widen the lens of how we talk about body based oppression
Get it because
Because well
Yeah, my agent of my stomach is totally the result of some fucked up shit when I focus on that experience
I leave out a lot. Yeah way to just gloss over that one
Do you want to dig a little deeper into the deep-seated psychological issues you have with your stomach no
Oh, it's fucked up shit. Oh, okay cool
We'll just make this about other people then because when I focus on my oppression
I kind of forget about my privilege god damn
What am I supposed to do?
I'm a
Fairly attractive thin white woman who's educated I mean, I'm at least a six out of ten. How do I deal with all this privilege?
I've got it. I want to focus on my oppression and when I forget about my privilege
I leave behind folks who are oppressed in ways that I am NOT
Body-based oppression is far more complicated and varied a concept than most people who call themselves
Boko allow for both oh, that's so cute, though
that sounds like one of those little hipster hangouts you find it like Brooklyn may look it is it's
Complicated and it's varied
do you know why honesty is always the best policy it's because lies become too convoluted and
complicated to keep straight
Like any good lie this whole concept is bullshit
And I'm not just talking about fat although that might be the first thing that comes to mind
Then privilege is totally a thing it's the idea that mainstream clothing sizes
Airplane seats and even the widely use BMI scale. We're all made to benefit us
Look, I am literally swimming in privilege so you can probably just stop playing this video now because nothing I say
Has any value to society now wait wait wait hold on before you go
I should let you know that clothing sizes and airline seats are the way they are because of the market yeah
Yeah, I get it the average woman is like a size
Fourteen so why aren't the racks full of size 14 of all these four sixes and eights well
That's because most shoppers
They don't buy for teens four to eight are the highest selling sizes for clothing retailers
therefore the market dictates
You got it more fours sixes and eights and airlines they try to accommodate as many
Passengers per flight as they Klan. I mean we're lucky. They aren't smaller have you seen Ryanair. It's basically a bus with wings
Air travel stopped being about comfort and experience a long time ago
And if you want comfort and a better experience
You are always free to pay for it. You can always get first-class now this one
I don't even know where you got it BMI as thin privileged
I mean I guess if you think that low blood pressure reduced risk of heart disease and not having diabetes
Are also thin privilege and fat, Sigma?
Absolutely needs to be at the center of the work that we do and
There are other forms of body based oppression that we often leave out of our work completely
Racial profiling is body based oppression
Racial profiling is a little a little bit more varied than skinny jeans
In accessibility for disabled people is body based oppression not having a wheelchair ramp is
Really, not the same. I don't think that that really rises to threshold for oppression the
Astounding rate of murder against trans women is body based oppression
I'm pretty sure that we could just include all murder under what is apparently a very broad definition
You have for body based oppression. I mean, it's like the epitome of oppressing my body by you know
Making it dead the way that we obsess about Muslim women's clothing this has nothing to do with the body
I'm starting to think that you care less about body image
And this is really just Melissa raging about BuzzFeed headlines the prevalence of sexual violence against Native women
The fact that skin lightening creams exist oh, yeah
She's just angry now
There is a point there. There is a
Problem with sexual assault and native women and how that is handled in the Native community
They're absolutely issues that can be talked about there
But the problem is is complications within and outside of that community. It's really down to a complication of
Jurisdiction between tribal and u.s.. Police forces
We can talk about that, but it has nothing to do with them being native and skin lightening creams look
Do you know the primary use of skin lightening creams I get it you can take this off onto a hundred different
Tangents about how it's more attractive to be light skinned
But that's not what they're for their primary purpose is it hiding scars skin
Discoloration age spots freckles if you don't like freckles look when I was a kid. I knew a girl when I was growing up and
She had a birthmark on her face, and it was this bright red mark on the side of her face
And she used skin lightening creams to reduce that discoloration, and it made her feel more comfortable
non-consensual genital reconstruction on intersex infants every clip here
She goes further and further down the rabbit hole Melissa. Please, just let me run through this
I have to stop like every five seconds
Nobody is that they're championing genital mutilation
I mean unless there's a chance you're related to someone named Muhammed
But Melissa kind of goes off the rails I mean if she was ever really on them intersex children
really
Yeah again
This is better served by other videos by people better able to speak to this than myself like Blaire white or Susanna Miraz
I've linked their channels in this description below go check them out
xenophobia and immigration bans the caste system
Food deserts and communities of color all body based oppression all having nothing to do with the body
How many of us myself included are regularly talking about these issues through the lens of body liberation?
There's at least one too many
How often are be taking a step back from my stomach will never be on the cover of the Sports Illustrated
Swimsuit Edition how often do we dissenter ourselves and our totally legitimate?
experiences to make room for
Arguably more pressing issues outside of ourselves. How often are we sitting our audiences down to be like ok y'all today?
We are talking about mass incarceration or rather than just referring them to someone else
Body liberation is not about feeling good in your skin although
Yes That will be a side effect body liberation means tearing down all systems of oppression by drawing attention to them and making people uncomfortable
With how often we ignore them, so here's a challenge. Oh goodie
Everyone watching this especially if you fall into the categories of thin white and pretty
Choose one issue just one related to body based oppression that you don't usually talk about
Now post about it it can be an article video or tweet thread by someone with more expertise it can be a series of infographics
That you create with pertinent statistics
Or it could be a personal reflection on why you've never talked about this before but say something
And let's all try to make it a habit yeah
Just hashtag it see
This is the problem with so many of these social justice warriors that it's it's all protest and no progress
Your your whole call to action is to post about it
I mean some of what you talk about definitely merits more conversation, but thanks to the joys of
Intersectionality you blend all this emotional rage, and you blur it with the genuine issues
You know to that point. I suppose that I've done the same thing. I haven't been able to dig into
What about this video is more ridiculous the anger at thin white girls or the insanity of intersectional feminism?
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