Fat Acceptance

From their tender age, big girls are the nicest. Society also sends them the message that they also have to be nicer than everyone else. And that, even when no one else has to be kind… they (still) do. ►►►

In the past year or so, many women at the forefront of the fat acceptance movement opted for bariatric surgery and/or major weight-loss. More recently, Roxane Gay, feminist and body activist author I admire, went under the knife to get the weight-loss surgery. ►►►

Over the past couple of years, the body positive movement became less and less of a dark, obscure thing. It’s getting almost “mainstream” now. Along with Ashley Graham, “Bopo” has become some kind of a… buzzword. A buzzword that seems to have lost (a part of) its meaning. And some of its inclusive nature. ►►►

Since December 2017 that I repeat that I will write a blog post on French author Gabrielle Deydier’s slap-in-the-face-book, “On ne naît pas grosse” (“One Isn’t Born Fat”). Well, here it is, finally! ►►►

Fat-shaming is one of the buzzwords in the plus-size / fat-acceptance / size-positive blogosphere. Because it’s an everyday reality of the big folk’s universe. ►►►

until quite recently, Canada had nothing to envy to France when it comes to how they treat their fat people. Plus-size people in France have it quite hard. Not easy to be a fatty in the Camembert country! ►►►

After reading an article on “inspiring plus-size models from Montreal”, in a newspaper, last February, I noticed that we still have a looong way to go to reach “fat tolerance”. ►►►

This open letter was sent to the 3 major French newspapers in the Montreal area – La Presse, Le Devoir & Le Journal de Montréal – in January-February 2017. It was never published, though it was written according to the requirements of each publication. So here it is, for your “pleasure”, and hopefully, for you to share around, so it can get the visibility it deserves. ►►►