Fighting fatphobia

Commenting on someones’s weight, assuming they’re lazy, or fetishizing them: that’s fatphobia.  And its victims won’t be silenced anymore.

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00:00Yesterday someone emailed me, you know that exercise is required to lose weight. No

00:06Never occurred to me

00:14Like any form of systematic oppression fatphobia is deeply rooted in complex structures like capitalism

00:22patriarchy and racism

00:30When you're fat in the world people people have assumptions about who you are and why you're fat and they think you're stupid

00:40Like at the grocery store people make commentary on what they see in your cart, they'll take food out of your cart

01:00So many people are feel as if they're defined by a number whether it's their salary whether it's the number on the scale and

01:06We're so much more than that, right?