"There were years as a little kid when I only wore dresses, not because I wanted to be a princess or was girlie but because I noticed no one criticized my body when I did..." - exactly. As a teenager - and hell, as an adult - I always felt like if I "dressed up" people would focus on the care I put into dressing my body, vs. focusing ON my body. And PS Aubrey Gordon & Maintenance Phase are my fucking favorite. Happy belated birthday, babe!
Jamie McCrary used to call me fat every day in civics class until I developed a decade long eating disorder. I asked him about it at the reunion and he didn’t even remember. I’m not much of a Billy Corgan person, but sometimes I will put Disarm on repeat for an hour or so. Thanks for being awesome Millicent.
First of all, happy birthday! <3 I usually hide my birthdays but I'll follow your step and try to really celebrate my 5-0 (coming up in a few years!). Fat phobia shows the true color of a person. It is incredible what people are willing to say out loud about fat people even though they would never say that about, e.g. racial or gender or sexual minorities. I teach public health, and my otherwise progressive students still flinch when I say looking at obesity as a "public health problem" is heavily debatable and problematic. We have a long way to go (but thank goodness for the Maintenance Phase).
"There were years as a little kid when I only wore dresses, not because I wanted to be a princess or was girlie but because I noticed no one criticized my body when I did..." - exactly. As a teenager - and hell, as an adult - I always felt like if I "dressed up" people would focus on the care I put into dressing my body, vs. focusing ON my body. And PS Aubrey Gordon & Maintenance Phase are my fucking favorite. Happy belated birthday, babe!
Jamie McCrary used to call me fat every day in civics class until I developed a decade long eating disorder. I asked him about it at the reunion and he didn’t even remember. I’m not much of a Billy Corgan person, but sometimes I will put Disarm on repeat for an hour or so. Thanks for being awesome Millicent.
First of all, happy birthday! <3 I usually hide my birthdays but I'll follow your step and try to really celebrate my 5-0 (coming up in a few years!). Fat phobia shows the true color of a person. It is incredible what people are willing to say out loud about fat people even though they would never say that about, e.g. racial or gender or sexual minorities. I teach public health, and my otherwise progressive students still flinch when I say looking at obesity as a "public health problem" is heavily debatable and problematic. We have a long way to go (but thank goodness for the Maintenance Phase).