[Image: Six photos of art installation in which six different kinds of adults face a wall with their arms spread out and on their backs, posed in a position to resemble the typical positioning of Jesus on the cross found on crucifixes are bodies of different types of children. The first is a priest with a young white child wearing only underwear on his back. The second is a white man dressed in a gaudy floral pattern shirt and blue shorts, holding a camera with a young girl with brown skin wearing a white shirt and blue skirt on his back. The third is of a soldier in full military combat dress with a rifle propped up against the wall beside him with a young girl wearing a dark blue dress and a headcovering on his back. The fourth is of a man dressed in surgical attire with a cooler on the ground beside him (meant probably to represent coolers in which organs for transplant are carried) with a young light skinned boy wearing only shorts and having a long scar down his sternum on his back. The fifth is of a person holding their arms out, guns in each hand and a rifle propped up against the wall beside them, and a young girl wearing a white shirt, white sweater vest with a logo and pink plaid skirt on his back. The sixth and last is of Ronald McDonald and a fat, brown skinned child, wearing only underwear on his back.]

1a. I want to know where the picture of the white middle aged rich dude in a suit who’s a senator or a congressman or politician or whoever is, but maybe the artist decided that there were just too damn many children to fit on that guy’s back. Fair enough. Because honestly? All the children included here could be put on that guy’s back and it would be a true statement.

2. I call SUCH FUCKING BULLSHIT on the picture with the fat child. First, because being fat ISN’T A FUCKING CRUCIFIXION, ASSHOLE. It isn’t a damage or a blight or a sickness or a perversion or any kind of wrong. A kid being fat isn’t automatically a kid who’s got something wrong with them.

There’s nothing fucking wrong with being fat.

THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING FAT.

And people who want to throw back “but fat people are unhealthy” will get the full force of my rage in their face because I have a world of statistics and information that I will lob across the way and bury you in, you ignorant fucking fat shamers.

Let’s be clear on something. The fat kid’s problem isn’t being fat. It’s being HATED for being fat. It’s being targeted by everything from bullies and parents (perhaps unwittingly, because yeah, it was done to me and I was a fat kid) doing abusive things to him to get him thin to the First Lady spearheading a campaign that pushes forward the agenda to increase stigma against fat children by making sure they get labeled as being unhealthy right off the bad and assumed to be eating nothing but “junk food”.

And all the while, any thin kids who may be eating nothing but “junk food” are handwaved away, because if they’re thin they must be healthy and don’t need any nutritional intervention, right? Any fat kids who are actually getting only occasional meals and live in poverty and have dire food insecurity in their lives are assumed not even to exist or even told it might be good for them to miss meals because they’re fat.

I want the fat kid on Jillian fucking Michaels’s back, that’s what I want. Because that’s what crucifies fat kids.

I want the fat kid on the back of Jenny fucking Craig and whoever runs Weight Watchers. I want the fat kid on the back of the pharmaceutical executive who’s company not only makes billions from their weight loss products, but fosters bad study after bad study to create an atmosphere of fat hate and fat fear, thus widening and increasing their marketplace and customer base.

I want the fat kid on the doctor’s back, for the role the medical establishment has played in the increase in fat stigma and the scaremongering that throws out bad or inaccurately explained science to masses of people they know to be not well versed in scientific terminology and procedures and who themselves seem to have missed the day in med school where they taught that CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION IN AN EXPERIMENT OR STUDY. Which is a basic fucking tenant when you’re doing studies. Because I goddamn well promise you that if some study were conducted that went against stigmas or exposed the results of abusive behavior in doctors against their disprivileged patients (especially those of color, those who are fat, those who are women, those who are trans, etc) they’d suddenly remember that CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION and be shouting it to the world.

And then, I want an emaciated kid on Jenny Craig’s back, on Jillian Michaels’s back. Because I predict that in coming years we’re gonna see a very hard and fast spike in eating disorders because we’re raising a generation of kids to see fat as the ultimate failure and the ultimate sin.

You wanna make statements about resource equality and food insecurity in the U.S. and nutritional deficits in children who aren’t get fed enough or who, due to poverty and other factors, eat food that isn’t giving them nutrition they need - that’s all well and good. But don’t you dare step all over a fat kids body, vilify it, and use it as fodder for your ignorant statements.