Woke up to this.

(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

Anyway, I rarely respond, but I did this time. We’ll see.

Thank you for the kind notes. To be clear, I'm fine. This is one of the milder ones.

I share this stuff bc it's designed to be invisible/can only thrive in the dark. It's important to me that folks know--esp those who haven'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've gotten much, much, much worse than this. And that only intensifies when the person isn't a man, isn't white, isn't cis/straight, & isn'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

Or this very "motivating" one: https://twitter.com/yrfatfriend/status/885988793207013376

Or this one, which (fun fact!) came from a self-described "progressive" queer person: https://twitter.com/yrfatfriend/status/744209765937483776

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't be expected to handle this alone.