by Anne Vespry
(via nynakin-deactivated20120301)
Source: law-nerd.orgHello! My name is Starsha. I'm 33, a wife, a mother, and a graduate student in counseling psychology.
I believe that fat people are more than just the fat they carry. They are more than the stereotyped image of the fat person who is lazy and eats all day. They have lives and families. Yet they seem to be open targets for public shame and humiliation. It seems that so many people are all too willing to poke fun at someone who is fat because of some preconceived notion that all fat people choose to be that way. Just because fat is so obvious. It cannot be hidden. It can't be tucked away within ourselves or stuffed in a box and stored under the bed. It can never be a secret.
I'm pro-fat acceptance because I am pro-human rights. Fat people have a right to feel comfortable in their own skin. They have a right to leave their houses without shame or fear of being mocked. Other people do not have to like it, but they certainly do not have a right to make someone feel less than human because of it.
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“Saying everybody needs to be the same weight is like saying all people should be the same height.” — Linda Bacon, PhD. (via National Geographic: Health at Every Size)
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"When are these people going to realise that shame and self loathing does not encourage people to change their lives? You are not going to make me thin by calling me names and telling me I am lazy gluttonous slob. If that was the way to thin, I would be Rachel Zoe by now."
- From Fat Lot of Good (via fatadelic)
