Sublime

Fatphobia can be defined as a feature of social systems that unjustly rank fatter bodies as inferior to thinner bodies, in terms of not only our health but also our moral, sexual, and intellectual status.

You are perfectly human, right now. Your so-called flaws do not indicate unworthiness or deficiency any more than the dark spots on the moon indicate some kind of lunar unworthiness or deficiency. Everyone has flaws, and your unique set of flaws do not uniquely vitiate your value. Flaws are just part of being human. It’s how we’re supposed to be.

Fatphobia – that is, prejudice directed towards fat people – is one of the most enduringly ‘acceptable’ forms of discrimination in our society.

What is clear, when the enormity of life and death is reduced to a question of thinness and fatness, is that it’s not really about health at all.

Perfection isn’t welcomed here; I’d like to see your flaws. The blueprint of your beauty makes me want to love them all…