‘Fat Liberation Activist’: Losing Weight, Even If It’s for Your Health Is 'Fatphobic'

"Generally speaking, those three kind of big buckets of reasons why someone might engage an intentional weight loss first is desirability second health, third stigma, but at the end, the day, all of those are rooted in fat phobia in different ways that I’ll explain first desirability that is kind of the most obvious when it comes to fat phobia. We.
I currently live in a society that up lifts, finesse, able bodied ness whiteness system as and heterosexuality as the things that are most desirable, and so, If you are wanting to lose weight in order to become more desirable, you are upholding a fat phobic beauty standard, as well as young white supremacy knowledge just so next as health. What we know is that way is not a good indicator of someone’s health, and also your health is not an indicator of you’re worth. You can have health and body related goals for yourself that are not about fat phobia, not about weight, loss, open them giving example. You might decide that you have a goal of hygiene, a particular mountain in your area. Now you would be engaging in different types of movement. In order to achieve that goal, you may or may not lose weight in doing that, and in fact, there’s lots of fat now.
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Third bucket reason is that you might be facing extreme fat phobia, an anti fat bias in your own life, and you have personally benchley had a wall where you can’t deal with that anymore, and so you decide to intentionally lose weight. That is actually the case with Iraq, they’re gay, who is very tall. They are like six foot or six one and prior to that error, weight loss surgery. They would have been categorized as a super fat, so been a super fat and being that tall comes with a particular type of physical accessibility challenge as well as anti fat as and so. For that reason, roxy and gay elected to have weight loss surgery. But it’s really important that if you still go through with intentional weight loss that you don’t sacrifice a fat liberation politics, because otherwise it still does fat phobia, even if you’re doing it for your mental health and accessibility."