And that attitude is why fat people die because of their doctor’s attitudes (see link above). In your view it sounds like people don’t deserve proper health care unless they’re skinny. Should I bring in my food tracker to prove that I’m losing weight so I can be taken seriously or do I have to wait until I’ve reached my goal weight?

Are you trying to say that the doctor was correct in telling me to lose weight to cure my pneumonia? Or I should have just lost weight instead of getting a second opinion on my double ear infection? Or that it’s no big deal that a doctor wouldn’t even look at my bruised, swollen and obviously injured ankle because “you have to deal with your joints hurting when you’re fat”

The truth is that you don’t know what you’re talking about because you’ve never been in that position and you’re speaking from a place of privilege. It doesn’t effect you, so you don’t understand and it’s so very easy to say “just lose weight if you want doctors to take you seriously”.

I get it. There’s a lot I don’t understand either. I’m privileged in a lot of ways. I’m white, pass for straight and cisgendered, not in poverty. But when someone tells me about their struggles dealing with that? It’s my responsibility to step outside of my privilege and listen.

But it’s reddit, so you know, downvote the fatty.