I don’t know where this “transfat” thing is coming from, and I don’t care to
But I think we should remember that there are plenty of people who are not what society would classify as fat, yet who still perceive themselves to be fat. These people have body dysmorphia and often it is accompanied with an eating disorder or other unhealthy habits, since it is rarely seen as a positive to that individual.
That said, fat is only an identity in today’s world because fat people have made an attempt to reappropriate the term and the status. The world used to identify us as fat, whether we had other more pertinent identities we wanted to be known as or not. So now some people live as Fat, and they make it a form of activism and protest to beauty standards they see as unhealthy or unfair.
Fat as an identity is something for people who have had Fat Identity ascribed to them and wish to revel in it rather than fight against it their whole life. It is not something you can create for yourself, it’s something that must be lived.
I think that last sentence applies to most of these appropriative “trans” identities, now that I think about it.
Can I please marry this post.
Please.
Please.
