Except, obesity isn’t a disease. People of any size have cancer. Obesity is defined not as the presence of so-called ‘fat diseases.’ It’s a simple volume calculation.
In other words, there’s no way to divorce ‘fat people’ from ‘obesity’ because obesity is defined as fatness of a certain degree. A war on obesity means a war on fat people. The whole idea is to change fat people, either through therapies or pills or shame or forced behavioral changes or some means. But it’s the fat person who is being focused on, the fat person who the anti-obesity warriors want to alter, not some abstract disease called ‘obesity.’
It just goes to show you how successful the War on Obesity propaganda has been, that it’s redefined a body size as a disease and abstracted it so that people who are being called to arms against it don’t see themselves as fighting fat people, but as some dehumanized concept called ‘obesity.’
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Me with romantic interest: Hi, how've you been lately? How's that project you're working on? Yeah? I'd love to see sometime, dude! How's the family? Good, good. Well, I'll talk to you later! Yeah we definitely need to hang out more often. Hopefully see you soon! :)
Me with platonic friend: YOU GORGEOUS CREATURE HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE LAST I SAW YOU? HOW I'VE MISSED YOUR LUCID DIAMOND EYES, UGH I JUST WANT TO KISS YOU AND MAKE SWEET, SWEET LOVE UNDER THE MOONLIGHT. WHY ARE YOU SO PERFECTLY SCULPTED, ARE YOU AN ANGEL MADE OF MARBLE LET'S GET MARRIED.
If we define sexual orientation based on anatomy, as most people do, who would an intersex person be expected to be with in order to be heterosexual? We are destructive to heteronormativity, to the notion of “men and women”, even to ideas like “gay” and “lesbian” if we define sexual orientation purely by anatomy. So what’s next? Where do we go from here? And how do we get there without violating the bodies and identities of more intersex people?
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Identity Theft: A Trans* Intersex Woman On Traumas and Surgery (via moreglitter) This is why I talk about orientations based on gender, not genitals. Heterosexuality is the sexual attraction to people of a different gender, homosexuality is the sexual attraction to people of the same gender. (via fuckyeahsexeducation) |
