Jokes and memes about gaining weight while people are practicing social distancing can be hurtful and harmful.
Fearing your body is tough. And it’s even tougher during COVID-19 quarantine.
I know what it’s like to fear gaining weight, but I also know what it’s like to be fat. I know what it’s like to read texts and posts from thin people who insist they’ll come out of quarantine “weighing 300 pounds”—well below my own weight. I know the sting of hearing thinner folks bemoan the size of their bodies, unwilling to confront what they’re implying about bodies like mine.
Publicly proclaiming our anxiety about or discontent with weight gain can contribute to a culture that demonizes and scapegoats fatness wherever it finds it. And when you say those things, your fat friends—and your fat followers—hear you. We see you. And whether or not you’re ready to acknowledge it, we know you’re talking about how terrible it would be to look like us.
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