‘Fat Liberation Activist’: Losing Weight, Even If It’s for Your Health Is Fatphobic

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UNKNOWN: “Generally speaking, there’s three kind of big buckets of reasons why someone might engage in intentional weight loss. First is desirability, second health, third stigma, but at the end of the day, all of those are rooted in fatphobia in different ways, and I’ll explain. First — desirability. That is kind of the most obvious when it comes to fatphobia. We currently live in a society that uplifts thinness, able-bodiedness, whiteness, cisness, and heterosexuality as the things that are most desirable. And so, if you are wanting to lose weight in order to become ‘more desirable,’ you are upholding a fatphobic beauty standard. As well as, you know, white supremacy and all that jazz.”