Jillian Michaels
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Fat's okay to use?
But see, you are, but listen, Jillian, you've positioned yourself, you've positioned yourself as really, really knowing this movement and really knowing where we're showing up.
And it is really, really common for activists and advocates to talk about using fat as a neutral descriptor.
We just say fat, right?
So this was started by a gentleman whose wife was fat.
Who was discriminated against.
That's where your part began.
Intuitive eating is a different animal.
Yes, that's not how I came into it through body positivity, right?
I understand, but that's how the movement started.
No, that's how my organization started.
The movement started with black women and fems in the civil rights movement, with women, with people at Stonewall who were fat people, with fat performers.
What's the through line?
What do you mean?
Okay, so people at Stonewall, is it because they were gay or because they were gay and, as you guys say, fat?