Bethany Rutter

[bluebottle20]

I don't think being a size 14/16 would mean she can't be a fat positive exercise person any more, I am that size and I don't think I'm slim. But in the context of her previous size, maybe

I just mean this in the specific context of fat positivity. There’s a lot of debate within fat positivity though around like what size of person gets to talk about it or be prominent in the movement - ‘small fats’ (which I think usually starts at like size 18? Idk tbh) usually are seen as taking up too much space if they talk a lot about fat positivity and stuff cos on the whole they can shop in high street stores fairly easily, face less medical discrimination etc, than fatter ppl. I’m also around that size and wouldn’t say I’m slim (and also sometimes struggle with high street stores and have faced medical discrimination, but not to the point that I would be barred from adopting or left to die if I had covid at the height of the pandemic, to name some specific issues the fat posi movement protests) but also wouldn’t like make myself the face of the fat positivity movement in the way that Bethany previously has done (and certainly wouldn’t try to make money/build a career off it!). I’m not commenting one way or another about whether I agree with these arguments, just saying it’s the sort of discourse I’ve seen on twitter lol

 

[BobRob]

I think Bethany’s tone about the discussions that have been sparked because of the Sarah Everard case has been really condescending

To be fair she usually comes across as condescending on every topic.

 

[Mel Donte]

She's basically just a fitness account these days

 

[Greenlentils]

I'm pleased others have mentioned it because I wasn't sure if I was seeing correctly or not but it's clear that she has lost a significant amount of weight. The article about her donut tattoo where she says something about her probably always being fat was clearly incorrect. All of the 'I never thought I'd be able to do something like this' about exercise and the humble brags about how much she has done, absolutely screams 'good fatty' behaviour, I think she's aware of that, so tries to balance it out with posting about getting food at the end of it all

Mind boggling that she just isn't mentioning anything to do with the effect that all of the exercise has clearly had on her body. Even if she doesn't weigh herself, she must be able to tell by clothes and photographs.

 

[bluebottle20]

I think it’s best to be neutral around weight loss so if she’s happy with her body then that’s great/the only important thing but seriously what is she going to do wrt her brand ? Like if she ends up like a size 14/16 or something no way is she going to be able to keep calling herself a fat positivity activist/writing books about fat experiences etc cos she’ll be taking up space in the movement that doesn’t belong to her … so weird to me that she’s not acknowledging it but I guess she’s kind of trapped now.

Like, she is in a privileged position in many ways in that she has all the free time and money to exercise and go to the gym and classes and doesn’t have to fit it around caring responsibilities and can afford good quality food and stuff so maybe she’ll go down that route when she inevitably has to ‘come out’ as not fat any more. Unless she’s going to be a size 6 still pretending to be a ‘fat exercise enthusiast’…

 

[Shane]

“Friendships” burn hot and fast in plus size world no?

It’s fascinating.

 

[Chip1984]

Off topic but reading that man's bio made me lol. He "was passed over for the 1967 production of Peter Terson's football play Zigger Zagger".
So that's what The Spice Girls were on about!

Ok, I'd had a few wines when I wrote the above!

 

[Cocoloca]

She’s so proud of her weight loss and constantly needs to show it off but because of her toxic body positivity she can’t actually acknowledge it

 

[bigdog]

I see that she has shared on her IG story that we need to become "organised and militant" in light of some of the terrible events of the past week. Find it ironic coming from her who seemingly has all the time and money in the world to saunter about doing exercise classes and eating in restaurants and yet never gets involved in organising or activism herself.

 

[thisismyorange]

The flower ones she’s making now are so bad! Here are hers, and what I assume she is aiming for. She still doesn’t even seem to sand the edges and there are often fingernail dents in them :/

Seriously does my head in that she can charge so much for them just because of who she is.

 

[HarderFaster]

What size feet is she?

They're a size 10. Tbh I didn't mind the ugly shoes in the early days of her blog because it felt relatable that a young woman couldn't afford to buy specialist shoes, but she clearly makes a decent amount of money now and I'd much rather see her spend a bit more on fewer pairs of shoes which don't automatically render every outfit she wears hideous. She spends SO much on (or more likely is GIVEN so much) clothing that I really feel non-minging shoes would be a decent investment.

I do enjoy some of her quirky taste but the whole thing of her "designing" collections is a bit

Also I don't understand why all her obsessive fangirls are reading her books when it's young adult fiction? Like, why are they all infantilising themselves to kiss her arse?

 

[Eurgh]

Charlotte deserves a rave thread.

 

[Mel Donte]

Even if she had met her, how many of us are still friends with minor side characters from our life 10 years ago?! Back then Tinder was just exploding (that makes me feel old lol) and lots of people were going on multiple dates a week, I don’t think it’s a unique life story that no other millennial woman in a city ever lived, and I’m sure her blog was one of many.

Unless Bethany has literally lifted stories from those dates or sentences the blogger surely doesn’t have a leg to stand on?!

This tweet seems to suggest that Bethany had read the blog. I know nothing about the process of writing a novel but even if Bethany had completely forgotten about it you'd think that there would be a research stage that would have jogged her memory. And it would have been polite for her to reach out to the blogger then, even if just to reassure her that the novel had nothing to do with the blog.

(Am I clinging to this because I want to see Bethany's downfall? Maaaaaybe)

 

[queenamber]

I understand she's trying to write books with fat representation and fat women just living their lives but it all feels so boring and redundant. Also I never see her reading commercial women's fiction (she seems a bit of a book snob to me) so feels like she's just churning these out for the sake of it.

 

[Pongoandperdy]

That is a cute photo and nice to see her smile - makes me realise we never really see her smiling naturally! It’s because she does the ‘photographed from above’, pursed cat’s bum mouth look in all her usual photos (presumably more “flattering”).

 

[Greenlentils]

I am going to assume that not only are Charlotte’s more aesthetic but they don’t come embedded with pubic hair trimmings so I think she can sleep soundly tonight!

EXCUSE YOU! They're not pubic hairs, they're beard hairs as part of her ickle baby husband's artwork.

 

[Eurgh]

Saw her out about yesterday. She's definitely not a size 20. More like 12-14 tbh. Weird lie on her part!

Was she stomping? Were you?

 

[Mel Donte]

Still bragging about getting the Sally Rooney proof

 

[Greenlentils]

I would love to know what she classes as an “inconvenience” something tells me they ain’t the same kind as my ones.

1) SpaceNK not having her favourite overpriced cosmetic

2) Not sweating enough during a run to show up in a selfie to show how hard she worked

3) Running out of cutesie masking tape to package her earring orders

4) Lil P / TikTok King being in a huff because he was trying to buy abba tickets

 

[queenamber]

It's the same old shit every day with her now.

A sweaty selfie
A word count update (methinks someone is jealous of Alice's ST bestseller)
A snack
A stomp around London