The Becky-del Test
Finally I have a concise, repeatable concept
To share with all you headline-sharers—
Behold!!
The Becky-del Test
This test, unlike the Bechdel test
Is not about movies— it’s about
Real life relationships.
The only condition needed
To pass the Becky-del test
Is to have a conversation
With a fat person
In real life
That doesn’t include
—Diet advice
—Diet assumptions
—Exercise advice
—Exercise assumptions
—Self-depreciating humor centered around food, weight, or general gluttony
—Assumed lack of discipline
—Assumed lack of virtue
—Assumed stupidity
—Assumed unawareness
—Tiptoeing, so as to not upset the fragile, in-denial fat idiot
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If you can’t have a conversation
With a fat person
Without assuming one (or all) of these things, you are
Part of the loud majority
That removes dignity from fat people, and in turn
Is unable to bear responsibility.
You are a bully, a fatphobe, a bigot —
Knowingly or otherwise.