on fat-phobic assumptions and fat-hate: what fat does not mean.

[belenen]

There are all these assumptions people put on you when you have a fat body. Fat is culturally assigned meanings such as lazy, gluttonous, unproductive, unhealthy, unclean, smelly, monomaniacal, obsessed with food, undesired, second-rate, clumsy, ashamed or stupid, unworthy of life. I know well that I am none of those things yet I feel the

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[divinemiss_em]

I feel this post so strongly in my life right now. An added element, at least for me, is that regardless of how I (re)educate myself, I still internalize so many of those ideas about myself and it really affects my feelings of self worth. I *know* it is bullshit but I still do it!! At the moment, I am trying to build my raw foods business, and seeing a fat girl talking about vibrant health and raw foods just blows peoples minds!! I have to constantly take time to breathe and shake off the negativity.