Harward’s implicit bias researchers noticed that while all other forms of discrimination were improving in the 2010’s, bias against fat people was the only form of discrimination in their research that was actively getting worse.
We haven’t improved since 2000’s, we’ve constantly been recessing.
The reason we think we’ve improved is because of body positivity, but body positivity is mainly about thin bodies and thin experiences, and even if body positivity is about fat people, it’s often not fat positive. The messages are more like ”Fat people are allowed to love themselves if they’re actively trying to lose weight” and body positive people often call discrimination against fat people bullying, and ignore fatphobia as a social justice issue.
We’ve rebranded being fat into ”being chubby”.
I’ve seen a body-positive influencer cry on social media because she was called fat, and she prefers the word plus-size.
I see thin people say ”you’re not fat, you’re beautiful” or just ”you’re beautiful” everytime on posts where fat people talk about the discrimination they face as fat people. Which might sound nice, but they’re still ignoring the whole message the fat person in the video was talking about. Imagine a post on queer rights or misogyny and all but one or two of the comments just being ”you’re so beautiful”.
I’ve seen thin people comment ”what about thin people” on posts about fat people! I wish I was kidding!
I see clothing brands sizing down. I walked into an H&M and another clothing store last week just looking around, and I couldn’t see any XL or L sized clothing at the front of the H&M store. And I couldn’t find any L or XL sized clothing in another prominent clothing store I walked into. Everything was XS and S and maybe M.
The fact that Disney threw one fat side character into their Cinderella remake doesn’t mean we are improving. I grew up with not a single person like me in fiction and I still can’t find people like me in books.
We often talk about how the internet makes teenagers feel bad about their bodies because they see people with perfect lifes and bodies, but when are we going to talk about the fact that the internet is brimming with hate against fat people? Every fat influencer and social media poster has gotten hate messages and comments at some point. Children are growing up in a world where we openly harrass fat people online!
This year was the first time ever that I’ve seen television ads that are anti-fat.
This is the world children are now growing up in.
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