Fat is Fat is Fat
First rule of fat acceptance - fat is fat. If you are fat, say you are fat.
We're used to hearing fat as a bad word, just about the worst insult there is, often hissed with such stinging hatred and malice that one can hardly help but find it offensive. If we want to change the fact that fat people are degraded, that fat is considered just about the greatest evil there is, then we have to stop acting like it's bad ourselves. "Fat" has to stop being a bad word. "Fat" has to be a word said with a complimentary, proud, accepting connotation.
We also often hear one describing someone whom they like with less offensive words than fat, words that are supposed to lessen the sting. Words like "big boned, fluffy, full-figured, queen sized" and so on. None of these are as beautiful, as simplistic, as fat.
I suggest that next time you are described as "big boned," you politely correct the person to explain "Excuse me, but I find the term 'fat' far less offensive. My bones aren't particularly oversized."
In conversation, if your friend says "She's so fat!" you might say "Yeah, geez, she's a friggin knock-out, isn't she?"
If you feel like being a little catty and someone says "I'm getting so fat!" say "Yes, you may soon come up to par."
If you refer to yourself as fat in the nicest way possible and the other person misinterprets your comment to mean you want to lose weight and quickly recommends a certain diet or work out regimen, you might say "How dare you assume that I would want to make my body as narrow as your mind!"
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