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Woke up to this.
(CN: encouraging suicide.)
(CN: encouraging suicide.)
That was in response to this piece, which just says that I got lonely when my friend’s behavior changed along with her body. https://humanparts.medium.com/weight-loss-surgery-and-the-unbearable-thinness-of-being-23fabdf978f5">https://humanparts.medium.com/weight-lo...
Anyway, I rarely respond, but I did this time. We’ll see.
Thank you for the kind notes. To be clear, I& #39;m fine. This is one of the milder ones.
I share this stuff bc it& #39;s designed to be invisible/can only thrive in the dark. It& #39;s important to me that folks know--esp those who haven& #39;t been fat--how virulent reactions to fat folks can be.
I share this stuff bc it& #39;s designed to be invisible/can only thrive in the dark. It& #39;s important to me that folks know--esp those who haven& #39;t been fat--how virulent reactions to fat folks can be.
If you follow any larger accounts operated by fat people that regularly discusses fatness/fat activism, I promise you, they& #39;ve gotten much, much, much worse than this. And that only intensifies when the person isn& #39;t a man, isn& #39;t white, isn& #39;t cis/straight, & isn& #39;t abled.
Case in point, these responses received by the wonderful Stephanie Yeboah (@/StephanieYeboah - not tagging her directly, because who needs to relive this?). https://twitter.com/yrfatfriend/status/897607833042079745">https://twitter.com/yrfatfrie...
Or this very "motivating" one: https://twitter.com/yrfatfriend/status/885988793207013376">https://twitter.com/yrfatfrie...
Or this one, which (fun fact!) came from a self-described "progressive" queer person: https://twitter.com/yrfatfriend/status/744209765937483776">https://twitter.com/yrfatfrie...
Again, this level of virulent anti-fatness *relies on* not being seen more broadly. I share it here to interrupt the cycle that normalizes it, because people should know, and because frankly, fat people shouldn& #39;t be expected to handle this alone.
