I just read the thread. My first thought was "welp, that person was just a loon". Then realised the irony of the phrasing my brain had picked. But, yes, it's a high offence / low defence thing and gives me flashbacks to the tumblr "smallfat" wars.
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Aha! I see. You quote tweeted a "don't treat your weight as a personality flaw" thing that was, I think, trying to encourage people with e.g. anorexia to chill and stop undereating, and
$loon jumped to a conclusion about you and it went wrong from there. -
No, it was about overeating.
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Hm. I read it as trying to tell people "it's ok to not undereat". I think this reading is where the loon started looning from.
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Then why
#fatphobia? -
Because people believing "if you're not stick thin, you're disgusting" is a serious contributor to anorexia? (I don't mean to sound condescending, I thought this was obvious and am genuinely confused that it wasn't obvious to you)
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It is obvious to me. I wouldn't disagree with a tweet which said 'If you're not stick thin, you're disgusting.' It didn't tho. 'Your weight is not a character flaw' is a slogan of fat activism & I found it retweeted by fat activists. And it says
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Hrm. I wonder if this is one of those things where "fatphobia" was *originally* describing stuff more like that and then got distorted as it ricocheted around a particular tumblr subculture. And I didn't know that was a slogan - so I'm guessing the loon might not've either.
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