One thing that bothers me is the idea that "fat is okay as long as you're healthy." Obviously, being healthy is preferable, but heavy or not, being healthy is not "owed" to society. Healthy, unhealthy, size not factoring, everyone deserves respect!

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Totally agreed.

Healthism is saying that people “aren’t okay” unless they present as “healthy.” I say “present as” since healthism doesn’t go after everyone equally – it’s hardest on fat people, women, poor people, disabled people, and other marginalized groups.

Healthism is a tool of oppression wielded by the privileged, after all – it has as much to do with actual individualized health as collecting toy farm animals has to do with being a farmer.

-ArteToLife