(Note: when this response talks about skinny people, it is talking about skinny people as a social class, not every single individual skinny person ever)
Okay, first of all, I don’t hate skinny people. But I hate how they treat me, how society treats me, how thin people are praised and worshiped for doing literally anything, even doing things that cause fat people to be mocked and attacked. I hate the way they speak over fat people in conversations about fatphobia, how they deny fatphobia’s existence while perpetrating it, how they speak about fatness like a disease, how they speak about fat people like we are less than human. I hate when they derail posts about fat people and make those posts about them, or how they justify harassment, bullying, and discrimination against fat people by saying we deserve it for “being unhealthy” or for “being unattractive.” I hate how they take every opportunity they can to make me feel undesirable, unlovable, unwanted. I hate the way they refuse to give me the same medical care as thin patients, and the way they prescribe weight loss as a cure for all life’s problems. I hate a lot of things that skinny people do. And I hate the fact that people think it’s all perfectly okay.
But even if I did hate skinny people, I would have every right to. As long as I am not bullying or harassing someone just for breathing, I am allowed to hate my oppressors. I am allowed to be angry at them, to feel hurt by them. And I do feel hurt by them. All the time. Because they never leave me alone. They never let me just exist. They always have to find an excuse to attack me, to degrade me, to humiliate me, to punish me for existing as a fat person. And that hurts, buddy. That hurts.
Second, no, no one thinks skinny people should die. No one would ever say that, and if they did they would be a horrible person. What we think is that skinny people shouldn’t be treated better than fat people just because they are skinny. That’s not an unreasonable thing to think. We think that thin people and fat people should be treated as equals, and should be judged by character rather than size or beauty. We think that all people of all sizes can be beautiful, but that beauty doesn’t determine one’s value as a person and neither does health. We think that bullying, harassing, and discriminating against people for their appearance is wrong. That’s what we think. And that is not the same as thinking skinny people deserve to die. No one deserves to die.
Third, please don’t use “obese.” Just say fat. Obese is a really disgusting word that medicalizes our bodies and has a lot of negative connotations.
You should educate yourself on fat acceptance before making ignorant posts like this.
Just The Fat Facts, Ma’am
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3 Important Lessons From My Mistakes as a Thin Ally to Fat Acceptance Movements
Back Off, Thin People – Here’s Why Body Positivity Wasn’t Made for You
How I Know the Body Positive Movement Will Never Be Mine to Claim
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