the feminist librarian reads

As long as my government is waging a war against me (the War on Obesity) a war in which they are actively trying to involve everyone from employers to restaurants to healthcare providers and insurance companies in my eradication, against my will – and as long as there are people who assert that we should all hope for a world where people who look like me don’t exist because things might be cheaper – I will assert that I am the victim of oppression. I think that society’s attempt to police my body and eradicate me and everyone who looks like me without my permission and by any means necessary constitutes the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel and unjust manner.