It Would Be Nice...

...if I never had to hear again another thin woman equate being pregnant with being fat.

There are a lot of things I don't like about that construction, but the top two are probably (1) that it entrenches the idea that pregnancy is the only "acceptable" form of fatness for women, and (2) that it effectively disappears fat pregnant women.

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