Twitter, Trump and Fat Space

Over the weekend, after days of jabs and complaints  on Twitter about the news that was released following President. Trump’s recent physical, Jon Cooper, Chairman of the Democratic Coalition, called his 239,000 followers to tweet using the hashtag #MarALardass. By Monday morning the hashtag was at the top of the trending list on Twitter. Cooper’ s followers enthusiastically embraced the hashtag and there followed more fat shaming, crude anti-fat humor than I could count. I and a number of others began to post responses to the worst of the fat bashing, only to be met with a chorus of justifications because of Trump’s history of lying and b ody shaming others. It was disheartening to see so many people whose ideas and views I mostly agree with post with such nasty glee about fat. Today a blogger and fat activist responded onMedium with “#MarALard*ss and the Left’s Fat Problem”. Please do read her post.Fat is one of those things I can't talk about as if these issues do not effect me. In fact I must say I don't really trust someone who has never been fat yet claims expertise about what being fat is like and what the struggles are. So that lays one of my biases right out there.  Every day I and all of us are bombarded with pretty simple theories about why people get fat and what we should do to get thin. But almost never does anyone ask a fat person about her experience or feelings or thoughts. In my small way, I am trying to add that voice and to explore some of th...
Source: Jung At Heart - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: blogs