12:36pm July 1, 2014

“The thing is that if someone is being shamed, stigmatized, bullied etc. for being fat, and we say “they aren’t fat” or “they aren’t even that fat” in their defense, what we are also saying is that there is a size at which they would deserve that treatment, and that’s just not true.

Countering fat shaming by denying fatness says that the person doesn’t deserve poor treatment (which is true) but at the expense of reinforcing the incorrect idea that they would deserve it if they were fat (or some greater degree of fat), or that being called fat is an insult. There is no size at which people deserve to be treated poorly.”

She’s Not That Fat | Dances With Fat (via brutereason)

This is why I respond to people throwing the r-word at me by talking about how proud I am of it, rather than saying “technically my IQ is 15 points too high” or something like that.  Because saying technically I don’t fit some definition of intellectual disability, just makes it sound like if I did, it’d be okay to call me names.

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