ancient melodies

See here’s the thing. I believe YOU believe you have no discriminative thoughts toward fat people. I believe YOU believe you “don’t hate fat people, but worry for their health”.

But, you’ve convinced yourself that you “mean well” because living with the actual truth that you discriminate against fat people- is a less appealing awareness for you to live with. You don’t want to think you’re the bad guy. I get it. That’s a tough pill to swallow. But here’s the thing, you’re not the good guy. You’re not an ally. You’re not aware, or informed, or “just really caring”. You’re prejudice, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

This might come as a shock… Get ready….Are you ready?

You can’t see someone’s health status. 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

Crazy, right?

You Can’tSeeSomeone’s HealthStatus

Assuming someone is unhealthy based on their looks is discrimination. :)

You hide your hate for fat people behind a flimsy veil of “concern”, so you can look yourself in the mirror, and I’m not going to help you maintain such a false reality so that you can sleep well. Fuck your sleep.

You harbor discriminative opinions of fat people.

Someone’s medical status shouldn’t even be of “concern” to you. It’s not your business.

Are you messaging smokers on tumblr ask expressing your concern for their health? No.

Are you messaging very thin people about your concern for their health? No.

No, you’re messaging me. Because you’re like “awe I love her selfies! She’s so beautiful, why is she ok with being fat? :(”

Like, it’s no coincidence that I just posted a bunch of selfies and then you just HAD to message me (on anon, of course. You’re making your fellow cowards proud with that choice 😉).

Check yourself. Step away from the computer and assess where your supposed concern comes from. Think about it. Sit with your uncomfortability. Ask yourself if your hate and discriminative assumptions of fat people are your own, or if you inherited them from society.

A woman who is a size 6 can be unhealthy and out of shape, and a woman who is a size 26 can be healthy and in shape. There’s no way of knowing ANYONE’S health status without having access to their medical records so 👏🏻 that 👏🏻 means 👏🏻 any 👏🏻 assumptions 👏🏻 about 👏🏻 anyone’s 🙌🏻 health 👏🏻 derives 👏🏻 from 👏🏻 your 👏🏻 own 👏🏻 prejudices.👏🏻

Got it?

Good.

But simply being fat (as in, having a lot of fat cells under your skin) does not, as far as I know, directly lead to any health conditions other than increased wear and tear on the joints due to carrying around extra weight. Fat cells under your skin don’t clog your arteries or mess with your blood sugar. (If somebody with medical expertise knows differently, please correct me.)

There are so many ways that someone could become fat and stay healthy, or get skinny but be very unhealthy. They could have been extremely physically active - like playing basketball three times a week before going dancing all night - before suddenly cutting back - dancing for a few hours, basketball every other week. They could consume very few calories, but in lots of foods that are not nutritionally complete. They might simply have a genetic predisposition.