Like thin people, fat people can struggle with our body image and self-esteem. But unlike thinner people, that’s only the start of our body-related challenges. As you will read in the pages ahead, fat people face overwhelming discrimination in employment, healthcare, transit, the treatment of eating disorders, and more. While body image is certainly a piece of the puzzle for fat people, it is a relatively small one. While the body positivity movement’s aims are laudable, they’re simply a solution for a very small part of the much larger looming problems faced by fat people—especially fat
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