although a certain proportion (possibly high) of people with muscles are very fatphobic - and they should be challenged where they are - having muscles is not in and of itself a form of fatphobia.

we do need to create a bit more space between embodiments, desires, ideologies, and acts of speech. bodies are not themselves acts of speech or easily or necessarily attached to ideology.

fatphobia is, though, an abhorrent world-view that is widely held and should be challenged wherever it actually manifests.

(this all said: i can absolutely understand why people would *read* muscular bodies as acts of fatphobia and exclusion. there is, in this sense, an onus on people with muscular bodies to actively resist fatphobia in the places that they come into contact with it)