Compound/Interest
Many self-identifying intersectional feminists
Seem to forget
The fat clause
On purpose.
They’re like–
Race, gender, sex, class, orientation–
These things have an extra element
That compounds discrimination
If someone is a
Person of Color, who is queer, who is trans
They experience things
A straight cis white person doesn’t.
Not a lot of disagreement with this sentiment.
And yet,
If you say
I’m fat, I’m queer–that
Compounds my discrimination–
I experience things
Non-obese people do not
I experience things
Non-obese queers do not
The response is–
Fucking lose weight
You bitchy, whiny idiot.
It seems to me that
The most important element, for the
Elements to matter, is that
They have to be on your instagram feed
With some vague, far-reaching concept
That doesn’t actually effect the subject
In a viral story that ended
Years ago.
The interest is in the performance, the ideal–
Never anything real.