"Block this ad" isn't good enough, I need a feature that directly tells the company "this was so shit that it lowered my opinion of your product"

you cannot make a post about how men put women in certain boxes without someone going "but what if i love the box? what if i've decided that it's comfortable in the box? are you gonna tell me i'm not ALLOWED to like the box? not very feminist of you to police a woman's decisions... maybe you'd be less ugly and miserable if you stopped talking about the box LMFAO #Girlboss #MyBox<3"

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I am whatever gender has the shortest line at the bathroom

Please don't fall into the trap of calling anti-fatness the "last acceptable bigotry", the "most acceptable bigotry", or (I literally saw a post stating this earlier today) "worse and more pervasive than any other forms of bigotry". Anti-fatness is not quantifiably worse than other strains of bigotry.

1. it's important to stay aware of the intersections of bigotry. Anti-fat bias has very strong roots in anti-Black racism. You can't meaningfully dismantle one without touching the other, and you can't act like there aren't millions of people who are targeted by multiple forms of bigotry at the same time. Fatphobia can be racialized and racism can be fatphobic, etc etc.

2. trying to decide on a definitive hierarchy of which group has it worse is a distraction from meaningful real-life efforts to make things better. It's not a contest and it's only in the oppressors' interest to make it one.

3. "worse" can mean so many things. How exactly would we measure the weight of bigotries against each other? Number of people affected? Strongest mental health impact according to scientific studies? Death toll? Legitimacy in the eyes of the law? Quality of media representation? Disproportion of individuals in power? Long-term history of oppression? This isn't and never will be clear-cut.

4. individual people will have individual experiences with bigotry. Some fat people will say their fatness is the only thing they've gotten crap for, or it's the main thing. Other fat people will have faced more bigotry over their sexuality, or their race, or their gender. And if you've been targeted with extreme vitriol for being fat, and only for being fat, I'm sure it feels like this particular bigotry is especially out of control, more than any other. Of course it would! But it's vital that you question that feeling and listen to other people.

5. when you declare anti-fat bias the "worst of them all", all that does is signal to other marginalized groups that you either don't know what they're dealing with, or you don't take it seriously.

6. it's ok to have a main cause that you advocate for, and it's fine and makes sense for that cause to be one that affects you directly. You don't have to justify it by naming it the Objectively Most Pressing One. You can be focused primarily on fighting anti-fat bias WHILE also supporting other liberation movements, because all liberation movements are closely related, and learning about both the similarities and the differences between various social issues will only help you as an activist.

Solidarity is it ❤️

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