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I need or rather, I want to respond to something.

Yesterday I talked about the backlash that Taylor Swift was receiving, people saying that she was fatphobic for her music video, and I very much disagreed.

I personally believe the moment in the music video was her talking about people calling her fat in the past. All of a sudden, the self-hate she's feeling, the ED, the body

dysmorphia, things that I can actually very much relate to. If you look through the comments on yesterday's

the vast majority of people did agree with me. But someone tweeted something at me yesterday and

I think they were a fan and I think that they're not going in with any ill intent. I'm not going to show their name and please don't search them out. That's not what this is about. But I did want to respond to it because it did

make me wonder a question. So the comment reads, I normally agree with you, but on the issue of T Swift,

it's mine literally every other plus-sized person I know is opinion that and isn't fatphobic. Imagine if white people got to determine what is racist. So, uh, right off the top, I am going to put in a different box that I am not going to touch, uh, you equating racism and fat phobia. I think that short-sided, a false equivalency, but it's not my fight to have. My question as it pertains to the main story around Taylor Swift and this backlash is

at what amount of weight loss did my opinion on this topic become invalid? I've been a big person

for most of my life. I have almost hit 300 at certain points. I've been very open about my

struggles with eating disorders in the past. I openly talk about my body dysmorphia even after my

weight loss. So I ask that question because I want to understand the mindset behind saying something like this. Because me losing the weight and having a healthier

lifestyle now, that doesn't change everything that I've fucking dealt with or struggled with or still

struggle with. Like it's not a grudge I actively hold. I mentioned this just because I don't like

this just being, I guess, like invalidated. Like in recent memory, when there was this podcast, it was like one of the biggest in the world at a time.

One of the hosts, like singled me out, specifically was talking about how it was fat.

I looked like I was on death's door.

All of a sudden, I have a mob of people pointing at and dunking on my biggest fucking insecurity at the time.

And I'm going to tell you something. thoughts which I felt that Taylor Swift was highlighting in that video. Those stay there

whether I was closer to 300 or now I'm under 200. And check this out, that monster of a

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