Fatphobia Is:
Fatphobia is
Telling a fat person
They need to lose weight, as if they don’t
Wake up everyday and pick it all up
Going to work, going to church, going to school.
Fatphobia is
That urge you have
To give a new diet tip
To the fat person you know
Would lose it all if they just knew.
Fatphobia is
The constant association
Of ignorance
With the fat body, the constant
Belittling of the fat perspective,
Fatphobia is
The omnipresent expectation
For the fat body to shrink
Into a more palatable package.
Fatphobia is
Treating a fat body
As less than, just because
Of your perspective.
It shouldn’t be that difficult
For a queer person to understand
The privileges of being thin,
The freedom that a thin body has–
Chief of which
The freedom to be
Fatphobic, and above correction.
It doesn’t matter if you’ve
Never lost more than 40lbs–
It doesn’t matter if you’ve
Never had an illness that
Damaged your metabolism, it doesn’t matter
None of it–
Fatphobia is
The oversimplification
Of weight, body, fat, and how to lose it
The oversimplification
Of my experience, of others’
Of the world of fat bodies
Screaming “I diet and exercise, but it doesn’t seem to work”
Of the chorus of doctors
Screaming “I hate my fat patients– they are non-compliant
Smell like shit, poop too much and
Don’t take care of themselves– how am I
Supposed to fix a fat fuck
Who won’t fix themselves?”
Fatphobia is
Experiencing that sentiment first-hand
Thin-privilege is everyone
Who has no idea what I’m talking about,
And wishes I would shut up, and go back
To talking about She-Ra.