There are so many times lately someone says some shit that straight up makes me want to ask, "Do you believe fat people have the right to self-determination?" because everything they're saying indicates the answer is probably "No."
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Fat people have the right to make their own health care choices. Fat people have the right to live in the way that makes the most sense to them. Fat people have the right to not make weight loss a priority (or to make it a priority, acknowledging the massive structural pressures on them to do so.)
Fat people have the right to advocate for their political interests. This is fundamentally not a scientific or medical argument, but an ethical position that at times cites the widely acknowledged evidence showing long-term weight loss to be a chimera for most people. Even so, it stands on its own.
Fat people exist. They are human. They have inherent human rights. A society that does not fulfill or defend those rights is not equitable or humane: that is the essence of the argument. If you disagree, you are choosing an ethical stance, not a "scientific" one, and it does not reflect well on you.
On a personal level, I hate it when people try to come for fat activism from this fake biomedical stance because the deeply unbearable irony of my own experience is that the "healthy" things I do are directly due to fat activism's effect on my life, and that's not even what it's supposed to be about
I learned to skate bc I learned from fat activism that there is no moral imperative to exercise (after years of seeing exercise as punishment due to diet culture), and I healed enough to go swimming with my rad fat friends, who affirmed my (fat) athleticism without pressure or moral value attached
literally if it were not for fat people just hanging out being fat (and also disabled, in my friend group) without shame or self-recrimination, I would have not discovered that I am sort of a jock...the very thing that diet culture is supposedly encouraging us all to be, yet doing a piss poor job of
I have to talk to doctors like children. I'm someone with a fat kink and I enjoy being fat and I'm like. "No you don't understand I like my body, please give me a treatment that is NOT weight loss."
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