Madeline’s Reviews > “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People > Status Update

“We keep our disappointment and displeasure quiet, revealing our disapproval of fatness only in our celebration of thinness. Ultimately, weight loss compliments don’t function without a hierarchy of bodies. Thinness is only worth celebrating if it is an accomplishment and thinness is only an accomplishment if fatness is a failure.”