I am so tired of getting this damn message everywhere I go that I’m wrong.

Particularly I’m sick of seeing it in newspapers. I read a very liberal newspaper and yet once or twice a week I check in on the paper’s website for news and there’s another article on “obesity”.

Fat people are disabled. Fat people are stupid. Fat people have mental problems. Fat people are a drain on society. Fat people are weak-willed. Fat people have a disease. Fat people have an addiction. Fat people should have surgery. Fat people should be shamed into thinness. Fat people this that and the bloody other.

I’m not disabled, I’m not stupid, I don’t have mental problems, I’m not drain on society, I’m not weak-willed, or diseased, or addicted and I’m NOT going to have surgery and I’m NOT going to sit back and let people shame me publicly for fucking EXISTING.

And I hate this conflation of fat people with disabled and mentally ill people, because all the negative connotations of being fat are lumped in with disability and add to ableism (and vice versa). I want to stand up and say that I’m just fine and move about fine and look, you’re wrong you’re wrong you’re wrong and before I do that I have to tell them that it’s not bloody OK to be shitty to disabled people anyway. That using “disabled” or “mentally ill” as negative and disparaging descriptors is just so wrong. And the fact that I don’t think that’s OK to be a dick to disabled people somehow undermines my fucking point because I wouldn’t be bothering to make that argument if I wasn’t disabled- so obviously I am a disabled fat person. Apparently wanting to be a decent human being doesn’t count as motivation.

“Oh well I know a fat person, like, a REALLY fat person and she can barely walk and she’s sooooo depressed about her weight, so some fat people ARE like that”.

Fuck off. Fuck right off. Judging this woman based on her health (physical or otherwise) is shitty, and fact that you may know a fat, disabled, mentally ill person doesn’t negate the experiences of other fat people, like ME, standing here TELLING YOU THAT’S NOT WHO I AM.

Did I mention that the comment sections of these bloody articles wind me right up? If one more person describes fat people as “broken” I will end them with my fat powers.

Thin privilege is being able to read the paper without journalists telling you you’re wrong, or broken, or a bloody problem to be solved.