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boneless-mika · 1 year ago

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I sometimes feel like my family aren’t aware that I’m fat/fatter than them. Like they’ll fully make “I really need to lose weight” and “I shouldn’t eat X it’ll make me fat” jokes (and say it seriously) around me, someone twice their size

#I feel like this is a problem a lot of people not involved with fat activism have #but probably the most useful thing I learned in highschool #is to always act like somebody with whatever feature you’re talking about is in the room #the point was actually that they could be then #but I think this could be a useful framework for thinking more normally around fat people #would you say this too a fat person you value? no? then maybe don’t say it #(clearly this doesn’t work great for everybody since ppl will be super fatphobic right to my face)#(but I think a lot of people at least want to be good and nice people)#(and maybe if you consider a hypothetical fat friend then when you meet a fat person you won’t be tempted to say this stuff)

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