I'm getting really tired. Of posts that admonish fat people to get over their internalized fatphobia. "Seriously you recognize the beauty in other people so why can't you see it in yourself?" Etc etc
You know what. My internalized fatphobia didn't come from myself. If i was left to my own devices I'd probably think I was pretty hot shit. I can romanticize any damn thing if you give me a couple minutes.
I've gotten over my internalized fatphobia before. Once. Twice. Three times. A dozen. A hundred. Countless times I've done this. And on the next day the world teaches it back to me.
I'm treated differently every day of my life because of my weight. It factors into my interactions with almost everyone I meet. Multiple times a day I'm reminded of how other I am, a separate human subspecies.
My fatphobia isn't the problem. The problem is the fatphobia of non-fat people who are incapable of viewing me the same way they view themselves. And I'm sick of their issues getting ignored while we focus all our attention on changing the perceptions of fat people, critiquing their self image over and over again while remaining silent on the reason why they feel bad about themselves to begin with.
Stop making post after post incredulously exclaiming over fat people's inability to view themselves in a positive manner, and spare a few words to everyone else - the ones actually causing the problem.