Renee Lawrence

“Phobias are real mental illnesses, and conflating phobias with bigoted beliefs and behaviors invites further stigma and relies on ableist language.”
― Aubrey Gordon, "You Just Need to Lose Weight": And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

“Thinner people are seen as working hard to achieve their thinness, therefore as dedicated and tenacious. Fatter people are seen, consequently, as failing to put in the effort needed to become thin, or healthy and virtuous. We are defined as categorically unhealthy, and therefore as categorically irresponsible.”
― Aubrey Gordon, "You Just Need to Lose Weight": And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

“It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Just lose weight is deeply dismissive, incuriously judgmental. It assumes that fat people have neither considered nor attempted weight loss and, more than that, that thin experts need to teach us about the wrongness of our bodies and how to make them right.”
― Aubrey Gordon, "You Just Need to Lose Weight": And 19 Other Myths About Fat People