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"Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realises himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is. Hence we can well understand why some people are horrified by our teaching. For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit I have never had a great love or a great friendship; but that is because I never met a man or a woman who were worthy of it; if I have not written any very good books, it is because I had not the leisure to do so; or, if I have had no children to whom I could devote myself it is because I did not find the man I could have lived with. So there remains within me a wide range of abilities, inclinations and potentialities, unused but perfectly viable, which endow me with a worthiness that could never be inferred from the mere history of my actions.” But in reality and for the existentialist, there is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving; there is no genius other than that which is expressed in works of art. The genius of Proust is the totality of the works of Proust; the genius of Racine is the series of his tragedies, outside of which there is nothing. Why should we attribute to Racine the capacity to write yet another tragedy when that is precisely what he did not write? In life, a man commits himself, draws his own portrait and there is nothing but that portrait. No doubt this thought may seem comfortless to one who has not made a success of his life. On the other hand, it puts everyone in a position to understand that reality alone is reliable; that dreams, expectations and hopes serve to define a man only as deceptive dreams, abortive hopes, expectations unfulfilled; that is to say, they define him negatively, not positively. Nevertheless, when one says, “You are nothing else but what you live,” it does not imply that an artist is to be judged solely by his works of art, for a thousand other things contribute no less to his definition as a man. What we mean to say is that a man is no other than a series of undertakings, that he is the sum, the organization, the set of relations that constitute these undertakings."--Existentialism is a Humanism, Jean-Paul Sartre (via sunrec)

I have a hard time believing and sympathizing with this, because the argument is not corroborated in any sense. It is stated as a matter of fact, which is quite offensive toward, I guess, non-fat-women population who are “blamed” to think this way - that fat women should appreciate all kinds of sexual attention whether they like it or not. I’ve heard numerous arguments surrounding this issue, and what it came down to (for me) is that you are sexy if you feel sexy. You’re entitled to feel that way, and no one can stop you. No one can make anyone think that they should appreciate even rape, since that’s also a kind of a sexual encounter. Also, “When fat women are raped, they’re often told they should be grateful that anyone wanted them” - …. WHO told them that? Who? Who in their right mind would tell ANYONE, fat or not, that they should be GRATEFUL for the sexual assault? Christ, this quotation just bothers me a lot now, ‘cause it’s just not plausible. 

Not only that, but I don’t believe that it is a myth that rape is about uncontrollable sexual desire. It’s not the sole cause, but compulsion can very well be a cause - it is a mental deficiency (which shouldn’t be an excuse, I’m not saying that it should be) that could easily make the rapist more probable to lose control in situations of sexual attraction. 

I feel that this is just victimizing fat women further, instead of focusing on moving toward instilling positive body image in everyone’s mind.

"[TRIGGER WARNING: Rape] Fat women are treated as utterly undesirable in our culture [and] are often turned into a ‘bizarre’ fetish object. The result is that fat women are told to be grateful for any sexual attention they receive from anyone, whether they themselves find that person sexually appealing or not. In other words, even more than your average women, fat women are only allowed to be occasional objects of desire and are regularly denied their right to have and pursue sexual desires of their own.

That way of thinking becomes very dangerous when sexual violence is mixed in. When fat women are raped, they’re often told they should be grateful that anyone wanted them, or, alternatively, disbelieved because it doesn’t seem plausible that anyone would want them ‘enough to rape them.’ These arguments not only rely on the dangerous myth that rape is about uncontrollable sexual desire (it’s not), but also propagate the message that fat women’s bodies aren’t valuable enough to the culture for their violation to be taken seriously."--

Jaclyn Friedman, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety (via khaleesi)

I may have reblogged this before, but it bears repeating.

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Jaclyn Friedman, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety (via khaleesi)

I may have reblogged this before, but it bears repeating.

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