'As a fat person, my health is one of the primary grounds offered by those who mock, harm, and reject me as a fat person. Cruel and judgmental behavior is often justified with an off-handed, 'I’m just concerned about your health.''
harm, and reject me as a fat person. Cruel and judgmental behavior is often justified with an off-handedAs if my health were their responsibility. As if I owed it to them, a debt I’d never taken out and could never repay.—that’s what makes it so insidious, and what can make it so cutting. But underneath its explicit message of caring concern, there’s a clear implicit judgment.
And healthism isn’t just a problem for fat people—it’s a tool used to further anti-fat bias, yes, but also ableism, transphobia, misogyny, racism, and more.
To be clear, healthism isn’t the root cause of transphobia, ableism, racism, anti-fatness, or misogyny—but it can be a tool to enforce all of them. That’s in part because healthism assumes a playing field that simplyAnd when it stubbornly attributes societal and community outcomes to “individual choices,” it reinforces the biases facing marginalized communities.
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