fat shaming and skinny shaming are both awful but actual fatphobia goes far far deeper than “shaming” and that is the difference

fat people are denied healthcare, fat people have to worry about fitting on fucking furniture when they go out, fat people can’t buy clothes in person, fat people are openly ridiculed and humiliated, fat people are assumed to be unclean, people avoid fat people on the street

fat people are never judged based on their achievements before their weight, fat people feel scared to say they feel attractive because the BASE assumption is that fat people are ugly, fat people don’t get to see people who look like them taken seriously in media

fat people have to pay more for clothes even though bigger straight sized people don’t, household furniture is not designed for fat people and fat people have to worry that they could break their own furniture, fat people can’t fit in baths

fat people are ridiculed equally for being fit and for being unfit because either way we are just seen as disgusting, fat people receive threats based on their weight, fat people are told that their trauma can’t be real because no one would want to get close to a fat person

fat people can’t buy regular heels, boots or jewellery because it isn’t catered to our bodies, fat people have to apologise for taking up extra room in tight spaces, fat people are stared at on the street and openly laughed at

would you like me to go on? because i could