#fatpolitics — Public Fediverse posts
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And here's a post from her, reflecting on a year of the book being out:
https://katemanne.substack.com/p/unshrinking-out-in-paperback -
Kate Manne's book Unshrinking is coming out in paperback. It's one of the ones I reviewed last year on @booktrail:
https://sunny.garden/@booktrail/112129566608464445 -
Let’s talk about #DescriptiveLanguage:
FAT is a descriptive adjective & noun.
OVERWEIGHT includes a negative judgment. We don’t say “He’s OVERHEIGHT.”
OBESE is a medical term—and a pathologizing label. It has a history & its parameters have changed over time.
All of these words may be used or understood as epithets.
The terms #FatAcceptance, #Fatshion, #FatPolitics, #FatLiberation, etc. reclaim the word as neutral while highlighting that it’s not a neutral thing to be fat in this world.