if fat people were allowed to exist in their full humanity, it would rob thinness of its meaning and power
thus, any attempt to bring this about is deeply, deeply threatening to anyone who relies on thinness (even just the hope of it) to give them meaning and social power
I used to think that if I let myself have something that diet culture deemed bad or “addictive,” I wouldn’t be able to stop.
It turns out I was just starving.
Isn’t it weird that we all already know who is going to win the popular vote and yet we’re all biting our fingernails wondering who the president is going to be?
This election is a tough call because one candidate was endorsed by both the Taliban and the KKK and the other was endorsed by a broad bipartisan coalition and the New England Journal of Medicine.