My Friends Would Rather Have Their Guts Cut Open Than Be Like Me
theestablishment.co
Living a life like mine is so intolerable, some undergo serious surgery.

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.

  • ZDL@lazysoci.al
    8·
    24 小时前

    There is a lot of fatphobia, this is absolutely true, but the sheer self-centredness of the author buries that message utterly.

    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.