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Something I really don't see discussed is the intersection of ableism and fatphobia and how if you look at how fat disabled people are talked about you'll see a blatant desire for eugenics that's usually not even obscured

mtfoss

Think about the last time you saw disabled fat people portrayed as anything but a villain or at best a punch line

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Not to mention if a disabled person is fat and uses a wheelchair or electric scooter or anything like that ppl will accuse us of just using it bc we’re lazy and our fatness is seen as “proof” that we’re just lazy

spinlyrightround

Children are conditioned at an early age to confound fat with evil, the villain, the bully (unless it’s the always cheery friend). It’s insidious in its prevalence and acceptance in childrens’ media. Cloudy with a chance of meatballs was one of the grosses examples I came across (the mayor gaining weight and using a mobility age as he becomes more and more evil) but certainly not the only example.