EDIT: Zoe Whitall is an author; she isnt in my class. This Manifesto is part of my reading list for my Intro To Feminism Class. She is a great author though.
This was a reading we had to do for my Intro to Feminism class. My friends, Thea and Catharine, did a fabulous presentation on it. While they were reading out the manifesto, I felt like my whole life had been put out on paper.. website. 
So presenting the HOT FAT GIRL MANIFESTO:
The Hot Fat Girl Manifesto
Because being a hot fat girl is a lot of work and is undervalued or unrecognized. Because a fat girl still has to pay more money for uglier clothes or spend 11 hours at the thrift store to find anything hot to wear. Because if you take the elevator, people think you’re lazy but if you’re on the treadmill, people laugh.
Because men like John Goodman and Bernie Mac get to have careers on television but sitcom-moms-of-three still have size-two waists. Because even feminist magazines publish fat-phobic articles under the guise of it being a “health issue.” Because anti-capitalist activists still use expressions like “fat capitalist pig.”
Because girls are dieting at the age of nine. Because side effects of the most popular diet drugs are seizures, heart failure, fecal urgency, breast cancer, lung disease, insomnia, nausea and vomiting, dangerously high blood pressure, abnormal heartbeat, psychosis, strokes, hallucinations and sudden death.
Because the Cooper Institute’s ongoing study of 30,000 people has found that those who are fittest live the longest, no matter what they weigh. Because the doctor who said that there were 30,000 “obesity-related” deaths each year received over $2 million in research funding from Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers. Because that study prompted the FDA to approve Phen-Phen and Redux. Because fat-hatred is a money-making industry. Because fat people who exercise live longer than thin people who don’t.
Because if you lose weight ’cause you’re sick, people telling you how great you look. Because hatred is so ingrained in every single one of us, especially inside the heart of even the hottest fat girl. Because even the most progressive people don’t talk or write about it.
Because I am tired of being ignored, invisible, de-sexualized and told that I have such a pretty face.
Because it’s not fat that kills, it’s fear of fat. For all that and more I am a part of the HOT FAT GIRL REVOLUTION!
- Zoe Whitall.
She also has a blog. I haven’t had a chance to check it out yet though…
This is a poem that Thea shared in class-
A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control.
She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn’t curve.
By where she is flat or straight or round.
She is measured by 36-24-36.
She is done in inches and ages and numbers.
By all the things that don’t ever add up
to who she is on the inside
and so, if a woman is to be measured,
let her be measured by the things she can control.
By who she is and who she is trying to become.
Because as every woman know measurements are
only statistics
and STATISTICS LIE!
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