I stumbled across this while researching old feminist publications. I can’t really explain why I liked it so much.
I don’t agree with the author’s perspective, but it’s a point of view I’d never heard before, and she writes beautifully, with wit and humor and pain.
Agreed. It’s almost breathtaking. “I am happy with who i am i should get to be who i am but everyone else who doesn’t like what i like for themselves is bad”
There is a lot of fatphobia, this is absolutely true, but the sheer self-centredness of the author buries that message utterly. For fuck’s sake they literally open by taking their mother’s concern over health issues and making it a slight at themselves.
HAES means be healthy no matter what your size, not “wheezing up stairs and prediabetic is healthy because i am built large”
This is why I stay faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar away from the “body positivity” crowd, despite actually agreeing with them.
There’s a disturbing percentage of that crowd that is all about “positivity for me, but not for thee” and I’ve had more than a few run-ins with people who called me “skeletal” because … I’m only 10% over my so-called “ideal” weight.