People who care listen. And if they will only listen, they will understand that shaming and discriminating against fat people is as damaging as they claim being fat is. If people actually listened, they would notice that Fat Liberation is about fat people’s right to live without being discriminated against. In the Fat Liberation Manifesto, published in 1973, which I’ve placed in the back of this book, two of the seven points are: ‘WE believe that fat people are fully entitled to human respect and recognition’, and ‘WE demand equal rights for fat people in all aspects of life … We demand equal
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