It's absurd how much faster I recieve hate mail and trolling after one of my pro-fat posts pops off than anything else on this site. People HATE to hear that their cope isn't based in anything real. Not publishing any of that crap, so keep it coming or don't, no skin off my nose. Blocking anons is fast, easy, and free! It's infinitely worth it to me to kill fatphobia when I see people whose experiences are so intensely validated by what I say thanking me in the tags.
Fatphobia is a racist, eugenicist pseudoscience. One day we will look back upon it the same way we do things like phrenology. The same way many (but not all!) of us now treat chiropracty. But the only way to move society in that direction is to actually, individually, treat it like that. This is how progress happens. Not all at once, but over time and in waves.
You must choose to internalise and maintain your values, publicly when it is safe to do so (and often when it is not). React with shock and upset when people suggest weight loss to you. You have the right! It IS upsetting to presume you should change your body on another's whim, based on poorly understood ideas of metabolic science, health correlation, and desirability politics.
Do whatever you want with your body, but do it because YOU want it. Not because you feel beholden to perform an image for someone else. Not because you misunderstand "health". Informed consent is so important; instead society at large has only manufactured consent for commenting on and controlling the bodies of other people like it's sport, like there aren't millions of extraneous factors to someone's appearance. Resist it.
