![]() ![]() I try, and almost uniformly fail, to convince thin people that I do not mind the word fat – that I strongly prefer it to kid-glove euphemisms like “curvy” or “fluffy” or stigmatizing medical terms like “obese.” "The hurt doesn’t come in naming our bodies for what they are – it comes in the harm that is visited upon us for being visibly fat." And, even with the best of intentions, they create powerful sense memories for children who dare to say the unspeakable name of bodies like mine. ![]() In so doing, they redact fat bodies from their children’s worldview. When children observe plainly that my body is fat, their straight-size parents reliably make a scene, sharply disciplining them, insisting fat means pain, and that fat bodies are not to be seen, discussed, observed, or embraced. When I refer to my own body as fat, I’m met with a knee-jerk, syrupy insistence that you’re not fat! ![]()
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