Unfortch, “activists” are just as myopic as anyone. When even Gloria fucking Steinem , failing to see the connective tissue between oppressions that keeps patriarchal values fat and happy, I’m not sure why I was so fucking floored by this broad:
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Not to suggest that all different oppressions are simply cognates of each other, obviously racism isn’t fatphobia isn’t ablism isn’t etc etc etc. To compare them like that would be to minimize the very real and quantifiable ways that some kinds of hate, quite simply, have been more devastating to human history than others.
However, when somebody devalues you for say, your fat body, there is a certain amount of shared logic behind that action and devaluing somebody else for their blackness! Or their gender ambiguity! Or WHATEVER, UGH. THEY HATE YOU TOO, DON’T PLAY ON THEIR TEAM.
Just because you’re hot and fat and can do your makeup or whatever? That in no way entitles you to feel like you’re really doing some good in the world when you’re simultaneously engaged with something that is so criminally explicit in marginalizing racially and socioeconomically oppressed people. It’s like that whack-a-mole game; it’s soooo great that you’re helping make a ton of teenage boys completely conflicted about why they get a boner looking at your picture, but just because you’ve nailed that peg down, doesn’t mean the game is over, sweetie!
I hope she never dares to speak for me and my fat belly again. Fuckin’ first world problems, man.
