u/GetInTheBasement

There's a subset of fat women, especially fat white women (which OOP/Purple is), who refuse to fathom that there are a myriad number of body and appearance-based issues and insecurities that a thin woman could have that's completely unrelated to fatness, but unlike fatness, is not modifiable through lifestyle changes and decreased consumption alone (such as race, being mocked for certain innate facial features, hair loss, hair texture, nose shape, height, etc).

And this isn't even strictly limited to minorities, but I literally knew thin white girls and women when I was growing up who, despite their thinness, were bullied and harassed relentlessly for being too tall, too gangly, having shoulders that were too high, having a face that wasn't considered conventionally attractive, amongst an assortment of other traits beyond their control.

However, unlike their fatter counterparts, the traits they were bullied for weren't modifiable through lifestyle changes and changes in eating patterns.

From an FA fatfluencer IG Reel about the "pain tax" that comes with being fat (transcript version to comply with sub rules).

I think the unspoken issue that's being completely omitted is how much of this "pain tax" is self-imposed and directly stems from the fatness itself.

OOP implies that this tax is something inflicted on them by larger society, but refuses to acknowledge how much of it is a result of lifestyle choices that prioritize consumption and staying fat over general day-to-day functioning and flexibility.

Pics taken from here.

The IG of the tattoo artist is here.

Excerpt taken from this Dazed article.