https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lizzo-and-the-problem-with-fat-activism/

……………………So rather than donate to a charity which supports incarcerated black women, Lizzo gave money to an organisation which presumably supports the right of criminal men to be housed in female jails, where a disproportionate number of prisoners are black women. In some states, such as California, the amount of ‘transwomen’ who force themselves on actual women is so out of control that condoms are routinely handed out to prisoners. As the Women’s Liberation Front put it ‘The new resources are a tacit admission by officials that women should expect to be raped when housed in prison with men, where all sex is considered non-consensual by default within the system.’ It was probably another sign of something shady that she declared the singer Chris Brown – convicted assaulter of Rihanna – to be ‘her favourite person in the whole world.’ But she was given a pass because, well, she’s a singing, twerking, flute-tooting old-fashioned all-round entertainer. And probably because she’s fat.

In recent years – in an attempt to redress the prejudice against fat people as thick and lazy – the somewhat oxymoronic term Fat Activism has emerged. This isn’t ‘activism’ as in standing on picket lines in the pouring rain helping the wretched of the earth to get a living wage, as we used to understand it. This is being a nepo-baby, sitting on your big fat bum and swearing at naysayers on the internet while a gaggle of similarly chunky girlfriends call you ‘Kween!’ It may be a bad thing that fat people have been looked down upon – but the attempt to reframe fat women in particular as somehow more ‘real’ than thin women was bound to attract a bunch of wrong ‘uns holding grudges……………………………………….