madame thursday: The body police need to be arrested already

stachiomaniasis:

Okay, my fellow fat acceptance folks and allies. 

Here’s the thing, when you post pictures of larger or curvier people and make comments like, “see, someone who’s beautiful and doesn’t starve themselves”, you’re actually adding to the problem of body policing, not helping anything. 

Because when you put up a picture of a larger person and assume that they must eat well, or make comments about a thin person and how they must obviously be anorexic/bulimic, you’re just reinforcing that fat = eats a lot and thin = doesn’t each much. This is wrong. There are plenty of fat people who do regularly starve themselves and plenty of thin people who eat quite a lot. That, however, is not the point. 

The point is that in making these remarks, you’re reinforcing that you can know a damn thing about someone’s diet, exercise, and health just by their size and looking at them. 

THE ONLY THING YOU CAN TELL ABOUT A PERSON BY THEIR SIZE IS THEIR SIZE.

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