Dear trolls,

No, we will not post your fake stories about how TITP gave some parent the “courage” to engage in the stereotypes that a fatphobic society believes fat parents engage in (like serving only high caloric foods with no vegetables or variety, discouraging their kids to play or try out for sports, etc).

Yeah, we know you’re trying to lie your way to proving that doctors and parents who put their fat kids on diets are always and ever doing it in the best interest of the child and that there’s no bad consequences (or consequences that could possibly be, shock and horror, worse than teaching a fat child self esteem, and how to care for the body they have).

Yeah, we know you’re trying to seed problematic content that reinforces your belief that fatness is a deviant or broken state, and furthermore, that TITP ‘glorifies' bad behaviors and/or physical/mental disorders (since you don’t believe fat people can be fat without behaving badly or having something wrong with them).

So, before submitting again – because I know you’re not going to actually ever question your assumptions about fatness – take some writing classes. Your characters are talking puppets and thus, their voices are wooden and obvious. Remember, in good writing the authorial voice should never be present. Your agenda should always blend seamlessly into the text, lived and breathed and expressed by the characters, setting, and plot.

Oh, and fuck you for trying, in yet another way, to divest fat people of their authentic voices. Every time you make a fake submission you prove why TITP has to exist, and why it shall exist, despite your best (pathetic!) efforts.

Toodles.

-ATL