There's a radical notion floating around the fem-esphere that I think we feminists should support. It's the completely foreign idea that every woman's body is different and, no matter what her body looks like, she has the right to accept, embrace, even (shocker!) love it. This is particularly novel when it comes to fat women, who, in addition to constantly being told they're seconds away from dropping dead and killing the planet, are generally treated with equal amounts of disdain and malice whenever it's at all socially acceptable to do so.

Fat acceptance trumps the idea that people are fat because they eat more and exercise less than thin people. As I'm sure we've all encountered, it's impossible to look at someone and[...]

[Published in NonProfitBlogs - Read the original article]