“Marginalized groups must work to resist the tendency to devalue or bristle over any member whose actions might be viewed as ‘making the rest of us look bad’. The work to end all forms of oppression does not involve policing group members to ensure they are ‘on message’. Ending oppression – be it fat or racial or gender or whathaveyou – requires an active commitment to resist any cultural messaging seeking to frame one member of a marginalized group as representative of all members – regardless of whether the framing presents the members in a negative or positive light.”
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Snarky’s Machine, from her blog post You Are My Sisters over at Shapely Prose.
End the good fatty/bad fatty dichotomy!
(via riotsnotdiets)
This is something I’m really conscious of at the moment. If I ever slip up, please don’t hesitate to point it out.