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[Content Note: Fat hatred; violence; misogyny; heterocentrism.]

screen cap of an image by the Post Secret site reading: 'Women say their number one fear of online dating is the guy will be a serial killer. Men say their number one fear is the woman will be fat.'

Whew. I have all the feelings about that. Especially around the disparate lived experiences of men and women with regard to intimate and/or gendered violence, and around the fact that my mere existence as a fat women generates equivalent fear in some other humans as serial killers.

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