Today As A Fat Woman - Tumblr Posts

Well I feel like I need a place to vent, or at least get things off my chest, so aside from my irregularly posted fictional works, I’m going to start a thing called “as a fat woman, I was made to feel guilty for” and follow it up with a daily experience. You guys can add your own things, but please note: assholes will be blocked. I am aware I am fat, almost to a flaw, and I don’t need snide comments disguised as “help” so. If that’s you, just forget about it. I’ll start today I guess.

“Today, as a fat woman, I was made to feel guilty for: eating two little cheeseburgers”

Now before you ask, let me give you context.

We had leftover homemade burger patties we had grilled. So, no unknown ingredients. Just regular beef. Grilled with basic seasonings. I then added buns (yes, I know, first mistake) and cheese (gasp!) and tomato and onion and lettuce and mustard. I ate two of them. Just them. No chips. Nothing else.

Now I would’ve understood if it had been pointed out that I was “unfair” because I ate them and didn’t share. But it was pointed out out of anger because “you know you’re fat, why are you eating that.” Pardon me. I didn’t realize because I was fat I couldn’t enjoy two beef patties and some fixings. I wasn’t aware that I couldn’t eat anything other than veggies. But thank you for the correction.

Also, I wanted to do this secondarily as a way to point out some basic things women (and likely men too) who are over weight have to deal with. Things the rest of the “passing” people get to do without someone even batting an eye. Because we don’t get treated the same. And I’m not minimizing much bigger issues like racism or sexism. I’m just sharing my experience. I don’t even know if I’ll do this again. Don’t know if it’ll matter. Maybe if I stop eating, like everyone else still can, I’ll look different and won’t have these issues.