Every fat person has heard this statement before. It is meant as a compliment and meant to make a fat person feel better about themselves.Because being fat is bad, right? The word fat is a bad word, that seems to be a fact. And even Grammarly would rather have me use the word 'overweight'. Many people live with this often unconscious idea that fat is bad. So when their friends and family say they are fat, they feel the need to tell them they ... Read the Post...
Gentle Mental Health Reminders
Some times are more challenging than others. A busy work schedule, personal problems, dealing with the loss of a loved one, or simply feeling overwhelmed by the current state of affairs. These and many more reasons are valid reasons to struggle with your mental health. Sometimes, these situations feel like you are stuck in quicksand: the more you struggle against it, the deeper you get caught in it. So sometimes, instead of trying to struggle, we ... Read the Post...
Medical Fat-Shaming Won’t Solve Health Problems
When I first got sick with my chronic illness, I was about 14 years old. From one day to another, I started gaining weight like crazy. As my mum always lovingly put it: "It was like watching a yeats dough rise." I went to see a doctor about it, and they told me that I just needed to lose weight and everything would be okay again. They did not ask about my diet, how I exercised my body or whether anything else had changed recently that could have ... Read the Post...
Rather Dead than Fat?
I have recently seen a post on TikTok that said: "Death doesn't scare me; being fat does!" This made me think. The girl posting this could not have been older than 15 or 16, and yet she has already internalized fatphobia to the point where she claims she would rather die and end her life instead of gaining weight and being perceived as fat. And honestly, that scares me. It's scary because it shows how much fatphobia affects the mental ... Read the Post...