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“[We] are taught that the weightiness of fat peoples’ bodies [is] inherently burdensome; cross-bearing; back-breaking; onerous. Not on fat people, but on the people who surround us.”
“there’s no regard for whether or not a person is well when they ‘lose’ weight because our societal desire—our only desire—is to not have to concern ourselves with the Ugliness of fatness; it doesn’t matter how it’s misplaced or ‘lost’.”
“So the celebration of “lost” weight feels more like a celebration of thievery; theft of a fat person’s ability to see themselves as someone who matters; theft of a person’s right to see their body as neutral rather than inherently bad; a breach of consent [...]”
“To describe [weight/loss] as something that is ‘lost’, or that is a ‘loss’, would be to suggest that it is dead; that it cannot be recovered; or that you had such a deep connection to it that you had an interest in finding it [...]
“None of which is usually ever true for intentional weight ‘loss’.”
the reason why this statement is true is because there is a commitment we have to not wanting to be fat, and that commitment is birthed through scientific anti-fatness, media bias, diet culture, and government funding of systemic anti-fatness.
https://twitter.com/thekingofreads/status/1292124513598091266?s=21 https://twitter.com/thekingofreads/status/1292124513598091266
https://twitter.com/thekingofreads/status/1292124513598091266?s=21 https://twitter.com/thekingofreads/status/1292124513598091266
we see fatness as something that is bad because we are taught that it is. we are socialized/taught that fatness is something that must die for us to live (& therefore that far people are always already dead)
so we celebrate when people “lose” weight because we see that as an example of D/death defeated. and we don’t want to ever be fat because, again, to be so means to already be d/Dead.
so not wanting to be fat is fatphobic because it is rooted in the literal fear of/hatred for fatness (or the taught “consequences” of fatness).
but “not wanting to be fat” doesn’t necessarily mean you are trying to be fat; it means you aren’t intentionally avoiding fatness.
but “not wanting to be fat” doesn’t necessarily mean you are trying to be fat; it means you aren’t intentionally avoiding fatness.
it means you aren’t investing in diet culture, in gym culture, etc as to run away from being fat. it means becoming fat isn’t an idea that scares you or that you hate. it means not using ED as an excuse for fatphobia bevause fat people can also have ED.
all of us, in one way or another, have invested in anti-fatness. there’s no way to avoid it like there’s no way to avoid anti-Blackness. but there are ways to actively divest from it. and part of that looks like not punishing your body because you don’t wanna be fat. LOL.
to read the piece where the excerpts at the beginning of the thread come from, click here. i wrote it: https://wearyourvoicemag.com/celebrating-adeles-weight-loss-promotes-fatphobia-and-misogyny/
