Fat Feeling, Feeling Fat
The real problem with fatphobia
And fat activism
Is that
To most people–
Fat activists might as well be
Flat-earthers.
The majority of people
Believe
That fat activists are
Whiny, stupid babies
Incapable of dieting, who want
The world
To stop dieting with them.
I have,
For the record–
Never, ever suggested
Not dieting. Not exercising. Not living fully.
I want to understand
Why it is
That the public
Is educated about
The sensitivities we must all have
When talking to someone
With an eating disorder–
What about their eating disorder, their
Body dysmorphic disorder, gives them a free pass
To a sympathy
That an actual fat person
Is completely exempt?
Why is it that
Imagining being fat,
But not being fat–
Is something that we should all
Protect, nurture?
Why is fat
A feeling, to those
It least affects?
Why is my life, why is my cushing’s,
Why are my experiences,
My serious diseases–
Why are these second
To the ones that
A thin body imagines?