So this is a real hot take but more often than not, when I read criticisms of media from a fat discourse or disability discourse lens, it comes off as functionally an attack on the validity of the perspectives of intersex people or those with mental illnesses or gender dysphoria
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But I mean just because the author in the book covers all that nuance and shit doesn't mean the activists on the ground do so It's the same thing as when brocialists say "There's no such thing as a class reductionist! No one ACTUALLY believes class is the only oppression!"
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(Well they sure fucking act like it) I mean I'm sorry but after arguing with the Bay Area "rationalists" I'm very weary of being told I have to obey the principle of charity and read everyone in good faith, as opposed to using my brain and reading between the lines
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