fuck yeah fat positive

Any one of any size can participate in fat activism. If you weigh 105 pounds soaking wet and you speak up against fat hate, you are participating in fat activism! That is awesome! Generally, fat people will appreciate it as long as you are not condescending about it.

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Fat identity is built around being fat. It’s kind of a prerequisite. If you aren’t fat - which can be determined by a lot of things, including cultural surroundings, doctors, retail clothing stores…. - then trying to claim fat identity is wrong. That does not invalidate body issues or imply those body issues are not important.

I often think that Fat Acceptance is, in large part, about finding ways in which we can be kinder to ourselves, less unfathomably cruel. Finding that is important for everyone, of course. And it’s important to apply that to other people, too.

But kindness does not equal the abandonment of boundaries. Good fences make good neighbors, like the man named Frost said.