Can't believe this still needs to be said. But thank you, yrfatfriend, for your insightful words.
I am bone-tired as I watch Bill Maher’s segment on fat shaming. It has been emailed to me a dozen times, with phrases like “Can you believe he’d say those things? And on television?”
As a lifelong fat person, Maher’s segment isn’t anything I haven’t heard before. It arrives daily in emails and comments from trolls who gleefully predict how and when I will die. It shows up in conversations with coworkers who publicly tell me when to eat and how to move, then insist they’re “just concerned for my health.” It even comes up in romantic relationships, opening the door to emotional abuse and even physical violence.
This year, Harvard researchers analyzed 4.4 million results of the university’s implicit association test—an online quiz designed to identify implicit biases against different communities. While implicit bias dropped or remained neutral in nearly all categories between 2007 and 2016, bias against fat people was the single category that
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