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thisisthinprivilege:

Text: “Over what weight? It’s not polite. It’s stigmatizing. Use ‘fat’ instead.”

…or maybe check to make sure you use the term the person prefers?

I know a kid who uses “person of size” and thought I object to it on the basis of it being essentially a hijacking of the “POC” term it’s a good example of different people favoring different labels.

“Person of size” is much different than saying “overweight.” It’s much closer to saying fat. “Overweight” has an inherent judgment, a suggestion that a fat person is wrong-bodied. 

There are plenty of ways of describing a fat body without using a stigmatizing term like “overweight.” Again, an individual can call themselves whatever they like, but I don’t have to use that word even in reference to them, and I don’t have to be okay with their use of that word given its inherent negative judgment of fat bodies.

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  1. theelliebell reblogged this from curiouskitty and added:
    I’m pretty sure it is the PC term. A GP would call a person ‘overweight’. They wouldn’t say ‘fat’ or ‘person if size’....
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  9. iamdrawberry reblogged this from witchylana and added:
    I know plenty of large folks, men and women, who prefer to call themselves ‘obese’. That’s what they themselves chose to...
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  13. sleepydumpling reblogged this from fannyhams and added:
    And the douchebag test is whether or not you feel it is acceptable to describe people as “obese”.
  14. mangocianamarch reblogged this from tr-opicalia and added:
    I get the point of the pic, and to some point, I agree, but then let’s remember that there IS an answer to the question...
  15. tr-opicalia reblogged this from fannyhams
  16. chinchillasurprise reblogged this from fannyhams and added:
    I still prefer fat but for entirely different reasons to those stated above :p
  17. fuckingyouisstrange reblogged this from fannyhams and added:
    Nice!
  18. fannyhams reblogged this from turgidandtorpid
  19. infinite8end reblogged this from heartandchaos and added:
    How about we just focus on the person’s personality rather than their body weight?
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