#sizeism

Ugggggh. First of all, the notion that social justice movements can be "stolen from" is the worst possible discourse to come out of the late 2000s, and I hate that it still has staying power.

Fat people are systematically discriminated against in every facet of life. We receive worse healthcare, lower salaries, and worse interpersonal treatment than thin people. It is both legal and accepted practice for doctors to refuse to treat a patient solely because they are fat. How is that not a "legitimate" social justice issue? Why would it not be an obvious and simple policy change to forbid weight-based discrimination in medicine?

This is paramisia.

Yeah, the conflation of child predator and pedophile is extremely prevalent and disappointing. They are not the same thing [link.] Thoughts/feelings =/= harmful action.

And the stereotype of only men being child predators is just so dismissive of children who get preyed on by women or enben.

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This is anti-masculinity, androsizeism, and also androableism.

He said I looked gay at first and I was like I wonder why I am gay then he specified the difference between "queer eye" gay and "discord mod" gay

Also for clarity, I also have what people call a "neck beard" and I do look like the "discord mod" stereotype in basically everyway except I'm not obviously fat (probably look that way cause I wear a whole ton of baggy stuff and am trans {fat distribution and people tend to think bigger clothes equal bigger person})

He even told my sister that she "shouldn't have let me go out like that"

That was one of the most blatantly homophobic (and etc) shit I've heard in this town. My sister even tried to call it homophobic and he doubled down

Bringing my alligator next time (joke cause I'm in Florida and it's a fun stereotype to reclaim in my opinion)

He hasn't seen us in like 9 months so. He probably thought that it happened over the span of those months.

We lost all of that within the span of a month from stress making us not eat properly.

Now we know why we've been feeling so lethargic and it's been hard to think. We've been hungry and just couldn't identify what was going on because of our sensory processing disorder being too overwhelmed by stress to notice.

The fact is, when a drug or technology promises to move a person (or worse, their children) out of a despised social class, people will use it. They'll seek it out, wait in line for it, empty their pockets, go into debt, break the law, risk the side effects. You can't just persuade them out of it, especially with abstract political appeals.

I think the only reason the queer rights movement has made as much progress as it has is that every attempt at conversion therapy has failed so miserably. If an even semi-effective "cure for homosexuality" had been invented in like, 1965 -- or even 1995 -- we'd be living in a very different world.

I remember back in like, 2010, when the autistic rights movement was very adamant that we were under a ticking clock -- we had to get the public on board with autism acceptance before the inevitable rollout of a prenatal test for autism, because once society figured out how to effectively prevent our existence, it would be all over. That sense of urgency kind of petered out as the search for a prenatal test ran into scientific roadblocks (but now that Kennedy's war on autism is afoot, now might be a great time to get that sense of urgency back).

And many Deaf people have said the same thing about cochlear implants, Mad people about antipsychotics, people with Down Syndrome and Cystic Fibrosis about prenatal testing -- acceptance and equality for people with a trait that medicine can "fix" is just even more of an uphill fight.

Which does not mean we should give up. We should still be fighting for fat liberation, Mad liberation, autistic and Deaf and all disabled liberation.

I just don't think complaining about and shaming people who choose weight loss drugs/surgeries is an effective tactic at this point. You're not actually persuading anyone, just miring yourself in denial.

By contrast -- and maybe this is naively optimistic of me -- I think we can still smother genAI in its sleep. Its value as a labor-saving or time-saving technology for individuals is minimal, it doesn't work as advertised, and people hate it.

So it's kind of weird to me that the consensus I'm seeing form around these 2020s technologies is "Stop being a luddite, there's no holding back progress, just accept the fact that the machine that takes in scraped data and spits out misinformation is part of our lives now" but also "If we're all just a little meaner to people who take weight-loss drugs, maybe we can reverse the trend and bring back 2017-era body positivity."

I think those predictions are backwards, actually.

We are not repulsive. We are not vile. We are not appalling.

We are people.

If my existence "promotes obesity"? Good!

You want to know why?

I am not promoting the idea that someone should become obese. I am not going to attempt to police someone else's body and lifestyle like sizeist people do.

I am promoting the idea that people of all sizes are deserving of the bare minimum of basic human respect.

This should not be a radical idea. This should not be something we have to fight about.

99% of the time? Being fat is not a choice. And you know what? Even if it was - even if I was shoving big macs into my greasy fucking maw every 2 hours?

I would still be deserving of basic decency.

I would still be deserving of proper medical care that takes into account things other than my size and diet.

I would still be deserving of comfort, of clothing that fits.

You want to know the worst part of all of this?

Fat kids deserve better, and all too often, they don't get it.

Fat kids deserve to be able to be active without being mocked for the way their body moves.

Fat kids deserve to be seen as children rather than medical problems that need solving.

Fat kids deserve clothing that fits them and makes them feel good about themselves.

Fat kids deserve to eat, and to eat good food.

Fat kids deserve to eat cake at birthday parties like everyone else.

Fat kids deserve to go trick-or-treating like all the other kids.

Fat kids deserve love. Fat kids deserve respect.

Fat kids deserve a proper childhood without having to pay a toll of trying to change their bodies.

Fat kids deserve acceptance for their bodies as they are and as they will be - not pleasantries about how they'll grow up to be skinny, so they don't need to learn to love themselves before then.

Fat people deserve better.