Fatphobia

[violachic]

I'm sorry, but guys, instead of saying crap like "I like a woman who takes care of her body", why can't you just be honest and straightforward and say "no fat chicks"? I mean, come on already. By using stupid euphemisms, you end up annoying me on two levels: first, the one where I think you're an idiot for assuming you can't be attracted to fat chicks, and second, the one where you insult my and everyone else's intelligence by thinking you can get away with masking what you're really trying to say with a supposedly-benign turn of phrase. I'm getting really tired of people- especially men- trying to tell me that I don't take care of myself just because I wear a larger size clothing than other women.



Fatphobia: unbelieveably enough, still a socially accepted predjudice.



So just in case you aren't aware, I'll make an announcement: I'm a fat chick- actually, I'm a Fat Chick- and I'm damn sexy.

Comments

[splagxna.livejournal.com]

go you. this is something i have been thinking about a lot lately, prompted by some good stuff on shapely_prose. being healthy is important. being thin, much less so (or so i'm trying to convince myself). and i should not have to justify my lifestyle, be afraid to go to the doctor, etc. it's unacceptable that it's still ok to discriminate against us.

[violachic.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I've added that feed to my f-list. It looks really interesting. Yeah, I don't understand why other people feel its okay to decide how healthy someone is or isn't by what size they are. There are tons of really unhealthy skinny people that nobody judges for it, because they're, well, skinny; why should they judge us for that? Its nobody's business but our own.