METRO NYC holds ‘Fat Beach Day’ to create accepting environment for plus-size community: ‘A space for people to be themselves’

New York Post ^ | June 22, 2024 | Social Links forMary K. Jacob

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“Fat Beach Day” events are appearing across the United States, aiming to create spaces for the plus-size community to gather — including one Saturday in Far Rockaway.

“We’re going through something culturally that is impacting us every day on an individual level and a systemic level,” Jordan Underwood, the event organizer told the Guardian. “We’re really trying to open up a space for people to be themselves.”

“I’m so self-conscious at the beach, and I’m never around people that look like me,” Emma Zack, who started Berriez in 2018, told the outlet. “I’m excited we’ve created this space for folks with bigger bodies to have a good time.”

“It’s a really sh–ty time, not just on the internet but in society, to be fat, and it feels really violent in a lot of ways,” Zack said. “You’d think it wouldn’t be such a thing because New York is so open, and you dress however you want. I always say I never realized how much people hate fat people until I got TikTok.”

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Save, Yourself, Don't, Look

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[wetgundog]

AKA “Beached Whale Day”

[VanShuyten]

I think I saw a picture of this in a National Geographic article about coastal life in the Arctic…..

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[Responsibility2nd]

Fat Beach Day?

In first with this photo...

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[dforest]

Good Lord. That is something terrible.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Guess who is behind the "Anti-Fat Shaming" stuff?

Pharmaceutical Industry Is Bankrolling Obesity Group That Promotes ‘Body Positivity’

[Cold_Red_Steel]

Hey! I want a second opinion!

[Responsibility2nd]

Fat Beach Day?

It could be worse. It could be Nude Fat Beach Day.

Clothes Optional.

[BobL]

“METRO NYC holds ‘Fat Beach Day’ “

I remember Santa Monica Beach, it was like 1000 feet of sand to get to the water. Probably the fattest beach I ever dealt with. Not sure about NYC, but I suspect they’ll be lucky if the winner is over 100 feet.

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[Deaf Smith]

A beach to see whales?

Beached Whales?

Do people need to try to roll them back into the water?

[Celtic Conservative]

Call in a “mass beaching event” into the local police.

CC

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Mays Landing beach in New Jersey is easily the most unashamedly gross beach , with every shoppers from Walmart feeling no Shane in their husky outfits and wife beater shirts

[taterjay]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bRe1CeGe7g&pp=ygUbdG9uaWdodCBzaG93IGxvdWllIGFuZGVyc29u

Louie Anderson...very funny

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Gonna need a salvage barge to pull him back into the water....

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[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Naturally. 🙄