The video going around Twitter shows how insidious fatphobia really is.
Many Twitter users have been outraged over the past few days after seeing a video of an older woman harassing a young woman for wearing shorts. The older woman, Bonnie Sue Bihary, had a problem with 19-year-old Jennna Munger's denim shorts because she felt Munger was too fat to wear them. The video starts with Bihary referencing another"chubby girl" who is dressed more appropriately with longer shorts.
This kind of adherence to respectability politics goes hand-in-hand with conservative religious principles that seek police women's bodies, sexuality, and expression. Bihary probably felt justified in her harassment because she was encouraging what she felt was ethical behavior and fostering a more chaste environment. But good intentions pave a path to hell, and the connection between religious principles and personal morality is an ambiguous one, at best.
I'm not the only one who found this situation familiar: Munger, and her denim shorts, have been flooded with support on Twitter from people who have faced the same nastiness in their lives.
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