most thin people don’t realize the extent to which fat people experience medical abuse. why would we? we don’t experience it ourselves, and we’re steeped in cultural fatphobia so that any vague sense we have of poor treatment of fat people can be dismissed via the belief that they brought it on themselves. but they did not in any way bring it on themselves (so what if they had???), and they cannot go to the doctor for the flu without being told that they need to eat less and exercise more (even if they have a history of anorexia), and that their weight itself is killing them (unscientific nonsense). they’re lucky to be treated at any point for the condition they came in about.
imagine if you were afraid to get treated for a lump in your breast bc you’d be berated and shamed about a quality of your body that’s irrelevant to the problem at hand and over which you have no control? if you didn’t even know whether the condition at hand would be addressed or whether the whole appointment would be a spurious diet lecture? and you were already dealing w internalized fatphobia and the despair of failed weight loss attempts? that’s psychological and physical agony, and it’s the habit of most doctors to inflict it on their fat patients. this is severe iatrogenic harm!
it’s no wonder, other stigma-related causes aside, that there’s a higher prevalence of certain diseases among fat people… preventative care, or sometimes any medical care at all, is unsafe and inaccessible to them
By the description of him driving the moneylenders from the temple, we can also tell that he fit inside the temple, which gives us an upper bound as well as a lower bound on his size.
It’s been said that Jesus Christ was larger than a baby but smaller than a temple
It’s been 10 years since the 1 Twilight movie was released and
I just wanted to tell you that Catherine Hardwick
wanted to have a diverse cast playing the vampires. She wanted a Japanese actress to portray Alice Cullen, but Stephanie Mayer
didn’t approve because she was “uncomfortable casting the film in a way that diverted from her text” And bitch I’m going to be forever salty about this, FOREVER!
See this is how collective action works. They can’t conquer us if we refuse to be divided.
I hate how they misconstrued this as “an effort to get out of class” instead of the beautiful act of solidarity that it is. Believe it or not a lot of kids actually like school and those kids did this not to get out of class but to protest and show just how ridiculous this is.
Firebird Scratches 