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Hmm... I’d love to discuss this one a bit more. https://twitter.com/thekingofreads/status/1292124513598091266
This is a slippery slope.
Considering that there’s so much anti-fat rhetoric within the medical field, being fat, for many people, is synonymous for lack of health.
So, even if folks know that the BMI is trash, many people don’t. And that speaks to the bias fat people face.
Considering that there’s so much anti-fat rhetoric within the medical field, being fat, for many people, is synonymous for lack of health.
So, even if folks know that the BMI is trash, many people don’t. And that speaks to the bias fat people face.
Additionally, the way media depicts fat people as lazy, incompetent, desperate, dowdy, and ugly causes people to stray away from fatness in order to avoid such qualities.
I don’t think “not wanting to be fat is fatphobic” is also saying “everyone should want to be fat.”
I think the message of that tweet is: the fear and apprehension towards being fat is what perpetuates fatphobia in society.
I think the message of that tweet is: the fear and apprehension towards being fat is what perpetuates fatphobia in society.
When one vehemently detests to wanting to be fat, it then makes “currently” fat folks out to be a product of lack of self control/discipline, therefore their fatness is seen as a failure that needs to be redeemed.
“To be fat” is commonly deemed as one of the worst things to ever be, so those who have been fat for a long time/their entire lives are subjected of discrimination & bias based on other’s perceptions of fat bodies.
I think the tweet needed to be explained so that people don’t assume that the OP is saying that everyone strive for fatness, but rather that fatness isn’t the worst thing to be, and it’s important to disconnect the negative connotation that it has.
