Something that I have come across in the arguments against fat acceptance is the thought that at some point you can be "too fat". That fat acceptance is taking a stand saying all fat people are healthy. I think the point is being missed. As far as I can tell, as as far as I am concerned, fat acceptance is fighting for the rights of equality. There are lots of fat people who are unhealthy, and there are thin people who are unhealthy. Getting good health care shouldn't be the privilege of the thin. I would like to sit in a restaurant, doctor's office, airplane, with chairs available that are wide enough for a fat person's hips. I would like to be able to buy snowpants, rent skis, ride a bike that isn't an adult trike, buy maternity clothing that comes in my size or can handle my weight.
So to the young folks in the waiting room at the fetal scan who teased me because I needed to ask for a chair without arms in the waiting room that had didn't have a chair that fit my ass, I hope the child you bring into the world opens your eyes to the privilage you expressed when you openly laughed at me. It was a mighty couragous thing to do, considering the volitile state I am in.
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