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]

Yes, if fat is one of the symptoms of this health breakdown, it is unfortunately the most visible.

Only fat isn't a "symptom of health breakdown." That's pretty much the number one tenet of the fat-acceptance movement.

To erase all this and say "I just want to be accepted into this system as a fat person, and that's all" is--well--you get the idea.

No, I don't get the idea at all. I don't think that demanding acceptance is tantamount to "erasing" any of the negative things about my society other than the part of my society that rejects people like me.