[ SECRET POST #4530 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4530 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think a lot of people, possibly including you, put too much importance on the physical part of the overall stereotype. When someone says "fat fandom chick," they mean a certain type of person, like you said. But tons of fat women in fandom don't fit or act anything like the stereotype. Most don't. It's those other people conflating a physical trait with a set of personality traits.

I'd say being active and visibly participating in fandom might in fact help fight against that. The more different kinds of fat people are active and visible and failing to be the stereotypes, the more "fatness" becomes decoupled with the personality traits people assume they're attached to. Yeah, people might look at you and think "fat fandom chick" but that's just an opportunity to prove that what they think "all fat fandom chicks" are like is wrong in the first place. Because I assume you're not, idk, hugging animu husbando body pillows and yelling about yaoi in public while idk asking actors what sex positions they would take with fellow actors and furiously spending your parents' money to purchase cats who you all name Khaleesi regardless of sex because fuck the patriarchy except for hot vampires. And if you are, being fat is really the least of your worries tbh

I mean, I'm not saying it should make it your responsibility to represent fat women. But I am saying it probably can't hurt anyone else for you to be Visible While Fat. If everybody socially aware thought like you and stayed home, people would only see the people socially oblivious enough be visibly be those stereotypes and not realize it or care... and keep thinking they're right about all the others in that group. Which they're not.

And if assholes who don't give a shit about reality just want to keep making fun of fat women in fandom to make themselves feel superior, they weren't interested in viewing anyone well in the first place, whether or not you were the one they decided to judge today. I don't think we should bother to give the opinions of people like that any kind of importance

[silverr]

*applause* Excellent, excellent points.