"What an absolutely vicious cycle: fat people are considered unhealthy, are less likely to be given appropriate medical guidance, and then when this lack of care consequently results in ill health (which would be the case regardless of the body shape of the person receiving this “care”) this fat-phobic community uses it to reinforce their beliefs that heavier people are inherently more unhealthy"
MsPipCheerio’s comment on ” ‘Offensively’ Fat: The Truth Behind Weight Stigma” at Jezebel (via jerseyjezebel)