…feeds you an endless parade of reductive punchlines, well-intended hatred, and doomsday prophesies, all to cultivate that hatred within your own veins, marrow, cells. I know the sad realization of recognizing that a culture that so violently hates fat people has ann…
…nterrupted. The fear of becoming fat, as Michelle Alison has noted, is a fear of mortality. But the fear of being fat is the fear of joining an underclass that you have so readily dismissed, looked down on, looked past, or found yourself grateful not to be a part of.