Quoted from bodypositive.com
"If the thing being projected upon you is something you worry is true about you, if you have internalized those oppressive stereotypes ("I am a fat lazy out-of-control loser"), then it passes by your boundaries and confirms your worst fears. It wounds you deeply. On the other hand, if you have done the work of thinking critically about the culture and how oppressive it can be to different groups of people, and you have looked inside to your own attitudes and challenged yourself to tell the truth about yourself to yourself, then the thing being projected upon you is less likely to be a match. It may still bruise you, but maybe it won't give you a terminal illness. Instead, you may think, that guy/gal really has a problem with (fat/old/Asian/disabled/gay/etc.) people. It was your bad luck to cross their path today, but their bigotry does not make you bad."
When I first started reading/listening to things from ISAA a few months ago, I called my mother a weight bigot one day when she was being particularly irritating. Of course she denied it. But the point is, that it's true. Weight bigotry is pretty common, and it's socially acceptable.
When I first started reading/listening to things from ISAA a few months ago, I called my mother a weight bigot one day when she was being particularly irritating. Of course she denied it. But the point is, that it's true. Weight bigotry is pretty common, and it's socially acceptable.