I love you skinny bitches. Thank you all for being the last bastion of sanity.  Thank you for appreciating your bodies and the amazing shit of which they're capable. Thanks for keeping your children and pets active and happy. Thank you for thinking about the longterm effects of your actions. I don't like "hate," on principle. But this community isn't hateful, from what I've seen. We're horrified and angered by the future we see being created around us, where logic and common sense are steamrolled by laziness and entitlement.  I used to have empathy for fat people who were bullied, because I was bullied as a kid too. I thought, live and let live, you know? They know they have a problem, maybe they're working on it. Holding on to hatred only brings you down. But they're not just asking for basic human kindness anymore. They're demanding to be praised for ruining their own health, for having no self control. They want to be recognized as a struggling minority, heroically overcoming adversity and oppression. They want to ride the coattails of actual progressive movements like racial equality, women's liberation, LGBTQ rights. People in those groups were, and in some cases are still, tortured and murdered and pushed to the fringes of society for being who they are. The FA "movement" tells every fat fuck with an excuse not to work out that his or her experience is equal to these.  They haven't earned the right to cry oppression. They have no idea what oppression is. If we're lucky, none of us do either; the difference being, we don't claim to. Anyway, this is getting long and I'm typing it on an iPhone. But as a mostly casual lurker, I just wanted to express what the existence of this community means to me. Stay healthy, you beautiful shitlords and ladies. Keep eating right, keep hiking and running, swimming and slacklining, rock climbing and biking and walking your dogs around the block. Take pride in what your bodies can do. Peace and love to you all - sjo