Manifesto

Fatsos, it's time we refused to be weighed during doctor visits! If a health professional pressures you to get on the scale, ask what possible medical purpose it would serve. A nurse told me, "Well, we need to track your weight so that, if it changes a lot from one visit to the next, we'll know, because it can indicate disease." Like I wouldn't notice a sudden loss of 50 pounds! Call the doctor's scale what it is: a tool of intimidation and humiliation, a means to justify the medical industry's anti-fat bias.