Is Taylor Swift Allowed to Speak About Fat?

Can you speak about your trauma if you don’t look traumatized?

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Taylor Swift caused an uproar after her new album Midnights dropped last week. The music video of her song “Anti-Hero” shows her at one point stepping on a scale and the word “fat” appearing.

Twitter was in a frenzy, in discussions over whether this was in fact fatphobia or a criticism of the fatphobia that’s so common in our societies.

Some say she should “do better,” like celebrities are often told they need to do. They suggest that using the word “fat” in a negative way is in itself damaging.

Others consider it the complete opposite.

One dietitian suggested a list of words Swift could have used instead of “fat”, which I think was true and…