So my Prius has broken down and I’ve been taking the bus to school. I hadn’t ridden public transit in a while, and had forgotten how much of a patriarchal experience it is. The bus was full of man-animals whose disgusting bodies were encroaching on the space of any womyn sitting next to them. I noticed that the differentlyabled seating was still available, so invoking my transabled status I sat across two of the seats (bus seating is also very sizeist in that the seats are unreasonably small for a Womyn of Size). All was fine and dandy for a couple stops, but then the bus started to fill up and a man-animal sat down next to me. I could see that he was visually disgusted by my beautiful fat folds daring to exist in his patriarchal man-animal territory. I was on the verge of tears, but I was finally able to gather my courage and tell the rapist that he had to get out of my safe space by leaving his seat. He asked why he should leave his seat. I got so frustrated with this mansplaining to a superior womyn, and shouted so the rest of the bus could hear “BECAUSE I’M TRANSFAT AND YOU’RE RAPING MY PHANTOM FAT BY DIRTYING THAT SEAT WITH YOUR FILTHY RAPIST SELF!” He asked me what transfat means. What. The. Fuck. This fucking rapist was trying to mansplain his way out of the situation and get me to degrade myself by educating him! However, the rest of the bus was watching us now, including many womyn, so I decided that it was a good time for activism. I cleared my throat and loudly proclaimed “TRANSFAT MEANS I’M PROGRESSING TO A FATTER STATE THAN I AM NOW! BY SMASHING THE PATRIARCHAL BEAUTY STANDARDS, I HAVE SHED MY THIN PRIVILEGE AND BECOME A TRUE WOMYN! I URGE MY FELLOW WOMYN TO EDUCATE THEMSELVES AND JOIN ME IN RIOTING, NOT DIETING!" I felt like Rosa Parks when she refused to get out of her seat. I was teaching this man-animal a lesson about the superiority of Womyn of Size, and exposing him for the rapist he is. Of course he still tried to fat shame me by saying I don’t need to gain any more weight, and the patriarchal driver made me get off at the next stop (ableist fucker), but I still feel like I’ve brought the patriarchy to its knees today :)