The Ink-Pot and the Palette

There is such a lot of politics around weight that sometimes I think you can feel guilty for selling out to the body-image police. (You know - it's anti-feminist to lose weight because it puts you on the side of fat shamers etc. But to gain weight is not to feel empowered.)

In the end I think it has to come down to whether you're happier or not. I don't think it's feminist to shame women into being fat any more than it is to shame them into being thin. And I don't think it's anti-feminist to say "I've *been* fat against the wishes of society. So society hasn't shamed me into this - I've done it because I want to."

It should be up to everyone to decide what level of weight and fitness they want to maintain, I think. If they like themselves as they are or are becoming something they like, then that's all good. (Bar the extremes of anorexia or the kind of obesity where you're unable to get up and walk around.)