This is what thin privilege looks like. It looks like one person forcing an argument from an objective distance about a moral issue and another person arguing while embedded within a present-tense moment of abuse about their very right to exist in their own body. You can’t tie someone to a chair and hold a knife to their chest and then expect them to form a reasonable argument about why you shouldn’t plunge it in. And arguing that fat people should no longer have equal or affordable access to medical care at a time when we already experience employment discrimination and social stigma, are already being denied necessary medical treatment, when bias among medical and mental health professionals is so common and so well-documented that many fat people avoid preventative care and procrastinate necessary treatments — is doing exactly that.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 04:02:47 +0000
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