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We literally don’t have to use people’s weight or height as a means to distinguish who would be an abuser/ who would overpower someone vs. who would be a victim based on size. This man is an abuser because he abused someone. That’s it. https://twitter.com/karnythia/status/1354488376234225671
Many of us understand abuse and intimate partner violence through an assumption of physical strength based on size due to misogyny and binary ideas of gender but this erases the fact that anyone can abuse you if they want to no matter their body size.
Sizism and fatphobia erases big/ fat/ tall, people as victims of abuse and IPV.
Assuming that someone being bigger affirms their ability/ capacity to abuse erases fat/ big folks’ victimhood and perpetuates that small/ thin people can have less ability to abuse. That’s violent.
Assuming that someone being bigger affirms their ability/ capacity to abuse erases fat/ big folks’ victimhood and perpetuates that small/ thin people can have less ability to abuse. That’s violent.
This also erases trans folks from the ways in which antiblack gender operates to have rigid ideas of what a ‘woman’ and ‘man’ should look like/ should perform like/ should present like.
This is how the binary works to harm and erase us in our survival and victimhood.
This is how the binary works to harm and erase us in our survival and victimhood.
Anyone can abuse.
Anyone is capable of abuse.
Anyone is capable of abuse.
