T'wings gets her rant on

[highlyeccentric]

And it is a worthy rant! Accordingly, I shall repost part of it (emphasis mine):

c) Even if I am eating sixteen cookies full of preservatives and transfats, even if I am eating pizza for dinner every single day and following it up with five beers and two packs of cigarettes (notice how those last two are more morally neutral), it is not your job to make morally-inflected judgments about other peoples' bodies and choices. "Healthy" and "unhealthy" implies not only "thin" and "fat" but also "morally good" and "morally bad" - look at the way that people claim to have been "bad" if they ate a fucking slice of pie and "good" if they ate some 30-calorie soup cup that has no food in it. Labeling certain foods or eating practices as healthy and other ones as unhealthy (especially when, as above, those terms don't actually have any universal meaning, because bodies are different) implies that people who eat "healthy" - which is, by the way, often allied with deprivation and self-denial, which, fuck off - are being morally upright while people who eat "unhealthy" - because they are enjoying or indulging themselves, heaven forfend - are morally bankrupt. Any time one person cajoles, shames, or bugs another person into eating differently or stopping eating, they are creating food shame. Let's not do that, okay? Let's remember that everyone gets to make their own choices about their own bodies - whether they want an abortion, whether they want their partner to whip them, whether they want to go skydiving, whether they want to take drugs, or whether they want to eat a cookie, people get to make decisions about their own bodies, and it would be nice if there were a world in which a fat chick could eat an ice cream cone in public without getting hairy eyeballs.

And if you wander over to her post today you will find parts a and b of this rant, dealing, respectively, with the fact that "healthy" is not a universal constant, and the use of "healthy" and "unhealthy" as code-words for "thin and fat" and the assumption that thin is always preferable. (You will also find three smaller rants about fandom and homophobia/kink-phobia as they apply to fandom, if that's your thing.)