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I know this sounds melodramatic, but think about it: If your body is wrong, and you caused it, how are you allowed to exist—to be seen, which is the same thing in the media—right now? In what way? Eating what? The only way you’re ‘allowed’ to be fat with any approximation of autonomy is if you are shown to be trying to change it—or if you at least aren’t seen doing things that everyone is quite sure make fat happen (like eating a hamburger). Then the criticism is held off just a little. At a fundamental cost, of course, because you must always make it clear first you don’t like your body either . But if you don’t do this…all bets are off. The world’s going to go get the belt.
