fattypatties speaks for me

[firecat]

Others posted it while she was in the middle of writing it. Now it's finished, and it's fucking brilliant. Start at the bottom of the page and read up.

Top 10 Things I am Tired of Discussing in the fat-acceptance community

I'll have more to say about this later; I'm still taking it all in.

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[firecat]

I'm glad your knees are better and you're happier.

It is troublesome that some fat-acceptance circles reject people who have had WLS. I understand why people have it, but my problem with it (apart from the high risk, which I'm glad hasn't affected you) is that I perceive it as a zero-sum game - I feel like the more people have it, the more medical institutions will treat it as the only option, and not bother to develop other treatments and instruments that work with fat people.

Of course, that's not the fault of people who have it, it's the fault of medical institutions.