I talk a lot about how poorly fat people are treated (with shame, stigma, bullying, and oppression) and how that is at odds with how we deserve to be treated. I say things like “we have the right to be treated with basic human respect” and “the rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness aren’t size, health, or healthy habit dependent” and “Fat people have the right to exist in fat bodies without shame, stigma, bullying, or oppression and it doesn’t matter why we’re fat, what being fat means, or if we could – or want to – become thin.” In short, I tell fat people that, regardless of what bullshit treatment we are experiencing in a fatphobic society, we deserve better.
Every time I do this (so, basically, daily) people leave comments or send me e-mails to tell me that I’m wrong. Most of them read like these that arrived today:
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