lines-and-edges:

swolerbear:

hatchetsandscars:

swolerbear:

I honestly wish people would understand that making fun of a shitty person for something like being fat sends a message to other fat people that aren’t shitty. Using sexist slurs against a woman that’s a piece of shit sends a message to other women who aren’t pieces of shit.

I mean if a fat person is being shitty, and you make fun of them for being fat claiming they are fair game, congratulations! You just sent the message to every other fat person that being fat is something to make fun of. Period. And it’s so ridiculous because there’s shit to be made fun of right there in front of your face with the shitty things they’ve done, but you default quickly to making fun of their weight and that’s telling

Honestly I don’t give a shit if you mock shitty people. Mock them. Their hurt feelings mean nothing to me. But if you make fun of them for shit like being fat that absolutely tells how you feel about fat people, and it is not a good look. You’re not just hurting them, you’re hurting innocent fat people who did nothing wrong. They’re listening, and you’re telling them how you feel about them.

Tl;dr- even if they are shitty people dont mock them in ways that non-shitty people are mocked or you’re basically telling them ‘i only see you as a person if you agree with me’

Yes, yes this, thank you so much for boiling my rant down to be so much more to the point. When people do this it absolutely forces their hand and shows that they’re only pretending to accept their friends when they really don’t.

I kind of want to create a sarcastic form reply for the broader situation this encapsulates, like:

‘Congratulations, in your haste to condemn [group/person x], you have decided [group y] are acceptable collateral damage!’

With, maybe, suggestion tickboxes for what the person can do with this knowledge, such as:

✔️ read up on intersectionality [with links]

✔️ read up on how to be a better ally to group y [with links]

✔️ if they really genuinely DO believe group y is acceptable collateral damage, seek the company of other [y] haters [with links] and leave the rest of us alone