Fight on your own terms

I spent the weekend on a FB page fight the bigotry and vitriol of fat shaming. I was buoyed at first because I made some salient points and a few people actually saw them. But at the same time I get tired of letting those concern trolls control the narrative.

There are so many movements I don't know that I support one completely. I do, however, like much of what HAES - Healthy at Any Size has to say as I truly do believe it is possible for a person the establishment considers obese to be healthy. But then I do believe that healthy is a subjective term. Once upon a time, sure, it meant something like without disease. But between what's in our air and what's in our water and the sheer volume of people on psych meds these day (I don't judge, I'm on them, too), I think the unhealthy greatly outnumber the ones who claim they are healthy. I mean my grandmother had a tumor removed from her head and yet she claimed she was never sick a day in her life. Okay Old Lady, if you say so.

I also like quite a bit of the Body Positivity movement, too. Do I support the glamorization of obesity? This is how I feel about that: if you've got your body in a place where you love it and you want to show it off, if you can do it in a way that makes you feel like a goddess, go for it. If you want to get in someone's face and insist they should reform themselves to look exactly like you, then hell no, step off.