#but you're so convinced you hold the moral high ground for being straight or skinny or whatever that you won't shut up about it

[nogenderonlyvoid]

okay no you know what i'm not done. i'm gonna keep ranting.

implying fatness is bad, even if that is allegedly only a standard you hold for yourself, is always reinforcing fatphobic narratives. it doesn't matter if you have body image issues. it doesn't matter if you have an ED. it doesn't matter if you have weight-related trauma. in fact, if you have these issues, verbalizing your insecurities only reinforces them in your own mind. if you ever feel like putting yourself down for gaining weight or "feeling" fat, ask yourself, what is saying this going to accomplish? it's not going to make you feel any better, and it just might hurt those around you. not to mention the fat person in your vicinity is just as likely to have the same kinds of issues and you could end up triggering them.

i get that being anything other than negative about your body is, to put it lightly, difficult. but that's something to work out with a professional, not to make casually cruel comments about around others whose issues are just as valid and present as your own. coddling the feelings of thin people is not important enough to warrant further reinforcement of systems that literally kill fat people.

so when fat people voice their discomfort with your explicit fatphobia, consider that as an opportunity to reflect on your actions instead of a call for you to defend insecure skinny instagram models