Anyone who doubts this should check out Paul Campos’s The Diet Mythand Gina Kolata’s Rethinking Thin. Several commenters expressed outrage at my comparison between fatphobia and homophobia-because, they insisted, fatness is “unhealthy” and “a choice.” But the science behind the medicalization of fatness is sketchy. “Read a book” is exactly what I’d hoped that readers of my article might be willing to do. One commenter, who described herself as a “formerly fat, now fit, lesbian,” said she was “disgusted” by “the false parallels drawn between the real systemic oppression of LGBT people… and not being able to fit your fat ass into an airplane seat.” Another wrote: “Oh, hell no, I am not living my life in the closet so can eat more Doritos and whine about oppression…Put down the goddamn McDonald’s and read a fucking book.” “Sized Up” received over two hundred comments on Bitch’s website and on Facebook the content of many of them made it clear that fat hate is still accepted in some feminist spaces. Many readers vehemently opposed this idea. In my article “ Sized Up: Why Fat is a Queer and Feminist Issue” for the Micro/Macro issue of Bitch, I invite feminists and queers to become allied of fat people. Yes, fat people can get married, but many thin people would not consider dating, let alone loving and marrying, someone who is fat.
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Both fat folks and queer folks face violence, lack adequate protection against employment discrimination, and are often disparaged for “choosing” an “unhealthy lifestyle.” This trend is puzzling, because anti-fat and anti-queer oppression are so similar. In the seven years I’ve loved her, I’ve been struck by a contrast: While many on the left have fought for equality for LGBTQ people, fat people are experiencing more stigmatization. I am a thin woman, and my partner is fat. Social equality for all people, regardless of size, must become a goal of the queer movement. What work still needs to be done? There are many answers, but here’s one: Fat liberation.
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It’s a time for celebration, and for inspiration. Last Wednesday, my partner and I woke up to wonderful news: DOMA and Prop 8 are defeated! After our wedding this summer, we will be legally married.