{"id":18642,"date":"2014-04-25T11:12:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T18:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18642"},"modified":"2014-04-26T00:42:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T07:42:20","slug":"wait-that-happens-to-me-because-im-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18642","title":{"rendered":"Wait, that happens to me because I’m fat?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dirty-Car-Woman\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Melissa McEwan<\/a> has a storify <\/a>that’s well worth reading. It goes on to discuss a lot, but here’s how it begins:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shakestweetz\/statuses\/458312302018588672
\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/Shakestweetz\/statuses\/458312549176332288
\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/jortician\/statuses\/458314715152650240
\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/Shakestweetz\/statuses\/458315296609026048
\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/Shakestweetz\/statuses\/458315489022709760<\/p>\n

Understand: I have poor hearing. I can follow conversations by concentrating on them, but voices that are distorted – like by a doppler effect – or unexpected are hard for me to make out.<\/p>\n

So yeah, people yell stuff I can never understand at me from cars. Frequently. Not every <\/em>time I’m out walking, but often enough so I don’t think twice about it when it does happen.<\/p>\n

So I read these tweets and I’m like “wait, seriously? That doesn’t happen to everyone?”<\/p>\n

Learn something new every day, I guess.<\/p>\n

Although I don’t have any data, I would bet money that this sort of fat harassment happens more often to fat women than fat men, although clearly it happens to both.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Paul Campos<\/a> relates a story a fat woman told him:<\/p>\n

Let me tell you a story \u2014 just one of many. One summer, when my twins were about three, they were in a little wading pool in my front yard, and I was sitting on my front porch steps watching them and enjoying the beautiful day. I was wearing jeans and a T-shirt. A white pickup truck with several guys in it drove by. The truck circled the block, and on the second pass it slowed down and the man in the passenger seat hurled a bottle at me, shouting, \u201cGo back inside where you belong, you fat fucking bitch!\u201d The bottle shattered on the walk, sending glass flying everywhere. Fearing for my children I jumped up and grabbed them, rushing for the house. They were OK, but I cried for days thinking that someone was willing to endanger two babies just for the chance to humiliate me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aaargh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melissa McEwan has a storify that’s well worth reading. It goes on to discuss a lot, but here’s how it begins: https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shakestweetz\/statuses\/458312302018588672 https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shakestweetz\/statuses\/458312549176332288 https:\/\/twitter.com\/jortician\/statuses\/458314715152650240 https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shakestweetz\/statuses\/458315296609026048 https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shakestweetz\/statuses\/458315489022709760 Understand: I have poor hearing. I can follow conversations by concentrating on them, but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18642"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18656,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18642\/revisions\/18656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}