- Joined
- Sep 20, 2016
"Your thinness took your ability to believe me, and people who look like me. It stole away with your ability to identify and believe the bias we face — the bias that lives in those around you. It took the fullness of the world around you, reduced it only to those who look like you, quietly and passively erasing the rest of us."Read this article if you want to rip your hair out: What your thinness takes from you: What a culture of anti-fatness takes from people who don’t wear plus sizes
I doubt it was her thinness that "took away" anything. My money is on age, experience, and growing maturity enabling her to see that some people really are the creators and sustainers of their own goddamned misery, and that fighting the good SJW fight for somebody who routinely makes poor choices and blames everyone else for the shitty outcomes of those choices is a losing game.
God, it always comes down to "I want more cute, cheap clothes, just like the skinny girls get!" with these bitches. But if she knew a single goddamned thing about the process of designing, manufacturing, and marketing clothes, she'd know that making plus-size clothes that are cute, varied, affordable, and that don't depend upon the most exploitative sweatshop labor practices is pure fantasy."In that world, we work together for outcomes that serve both of us: more comfortable airline seats. More clothing options for all sizes, more standardized sizing, and more affordable clothing made by fairly compensated workers.
But weight is never the "lone health indicator." It is, however, an incredibly significant indicator of and precursor for a host of health problems, and losing weight can help reverse, or at least manage those conditions. Pretending that being obese has no effect on your health is, again, pure fantasy. And I'll bet this sad landwhale already has health conditions she doesn't want to admit are the result of her obesity.More accurate, precise health and nutrition information that doesn’t just rely on weight as our lone health indicator. More accessible spaces for people with disabilities, pregnant people, people of all sizes."