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Dr. Anita B. Etin, PhD 💕

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Fat-Affirming Dietician w/ PhD in Body Positive Medicine 🔬 Author of “Snacks Over Scales” and “Health with Every Happy Meal” 📚 Feminist/Ally 🏳️‍🌈 She/Her 💕

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@DrAnitaBEtin
Dr. Anita B. Etin, PhD 💕
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I just reported several fatphobic jokes to @elonmusk and he told me to lighten up.
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Welcome to @elonmusk ’s Twitter where literal slurs are allowed to trend.
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“Obese” is the N word for plus-sized people.
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I can’t even relax in my own backyard without being reminded systemic fat phobia is everywhere.
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Going on a sex strike to end fat phobia was a big step in my career as a fat activist and it’s a step I did not take lightly.
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@ClownWorld_ Fat phobia is not a joke. I don’t have time to run a satire account. I already have enough on my plate.
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Name a bigger star than Lizzo. I’ll wait....
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Skinny people are weight supremacists.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but being fat doesn’t make you any less of a person.
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You wouldn’t call a black person the N word, so you shouldn’t call a fat person the O word.
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Why is @elonmusk fact checking my tweets? I’m tired of everyone on Twitter acting like my PhD is a big fat lie.
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I stopped by for a light dinner on my way home from work and half the people in here aren’t even wearing masks. Some people just don’t care about protecting their health. Smh 😷
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I promised to never stop standing up against fat phobia, but my ankles hurt so I’m going to sit down now.
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I’m a POS and I’m proud! As a proud Person of Size, I will never stop standing up to all the fat phobia on this app, no matter how much I want to sit down.
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To all the fat phobes who keep asking if I’m a “satire” account, the answer is no. I’m way too busy trying to end fat phobia, which is a hefty task on its own, so also running a satire account would be biting off much more than I can chew.
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@ACTBrigitte Picking which number I want from Steak n Shake is a choice. Being obese is not.
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Fat Lives Matter.
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@Tattytats @elonmusk Please don’t tag @elonmusk on my posts. I’m on a sex strike until he gets fired from Twitter
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The only thing worse than a rapist is a fatphobic rapist who refuses to rape somebody solely because of their weight.
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@Timcast Maybe you should stop taking about politics and start talking about the elephant in the room: Fatphobia. That’s what I’m doing, and my plus-sided audience keeps growing larger everyday.
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I’m restarting my sex strike until Elon Musk fixes Twitter. @elonmusk
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No I was not in Turkey today, please quit asking.
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Good morning to all my new plus-sized followers. We may not be the biggest fat activists on Twitter, but our community keeps growing larger every day.
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Fatphobic diets are difficult to maintain, but fat-affirming diets are a piece of cake.
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Police shootings disproportionately affect the plus-sized community since we are both bigger targets and have a harder time running away
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@DrAnitaBEtin Pretty sure that there's not a police brutality issue with OBESE people or a marginalized poverty issue either. But what do i know?
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You can’t even tell the difference if you’re not fat phobic
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I’m working late so I ordered some food to the office. I hope they brought enough fries since this is all I have until dinner.
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I haven’t always been plus-sized. I was born thin-sized, but I started feeling fat around puberty. Yes, I am trans fat.
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I’m glad to see so many plus-sized people are inspired by my fat activism here on Twitter. Becoming a fat was a big step on my goal towards ending fat phobia, and like most big steps, it was a step I did not take lightly.
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Inside every thin woman is a fat woman hungry to be free.
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I’m tired of people thinking my page is one big fat joke.
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Skinny women might fit the beauty standard, but I have a bigger heart.
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I’m done trying to fit society’s beauty standards. I can barely even fit my clothes.
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You can’t spell “Beautiful Sexy Woman” without “OBESITY”
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Thank you @ChipsAhoy for respecting my work.
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Big Lives Matter. ✊🏻
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BLM. ✊🏾
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Perhaps the only thing worse than being sexually assaulted is never being sexually assaulted solely because of your weight.
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The man taking my order at Arby’s just told me I look hot. When I asked to speak to his manager (because I’m currently on a sex strike and I don’t appreciate being hit on) he handed me some napkins because apparently I was sweating.
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I will never stop standing up against fat phobia no matter how much my ankles hurt.
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I’m busy fighting against systemic fat phobia, not running a “parody” account. I don’t have time to run a parody account. I already have enough on my plate.
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@DrAnitaBEtin You probably should add “parody” or “satire” to your bio before you get too many people upset.
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Men being “stronger” is a myth. I once asked my boyfriend in college to give me a piggy back ride, and he couldn’t even do it because I was too “heavy” for him. His fragile ego was so crushed he broke up with me the next day.
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It’s been 3 months since I started my sex strike to end fatphobia and I’ve realized I don’t need to chase a man to be happy unless he’s driving the ice cream truck.
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Never let anyone make you feel like less of a person just because you’re plus-sized. You’re bigger than that.
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Skinny women hate when I call out their fat phobia. I might not call them out directly, but I’m always throwing shade.
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It’s ok to be Fat. It’s ok to be Ample. It’s ok to be Thick. It’s ok to be Stout. It’s ok to be Obese. We love and accept everyone in the FATSO community and we’ll always embrace you with wide open arms.
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Biscuit used to have a lot of health problems before I switched her to a fat-affirming veterinarian. Now she gets a clean bill of health and a cookie every visit. That’s the power of body positive medicine.
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I’m having a little pasta and red wine alone with myself tonight. Sometimes it’s fun to pretend I’m on a date, but then I remember I’m still on a sex strike, so I better not get too tipsy and have sex with anyone
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I’m extending my sex strike until Elon Musk goes to Mars.
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@DrAnitaBEtin Had me there for a minute
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Men being “stronger” is a myth. Back in college I asked my boyfriend to give me a piggy back ride and he couldn’t even do it because I was too “heavy” for him. His fragile ego felt so crushed he broke up with me the next day.
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A lot of bad things happened on Jeffrey Epstein’s Island, but the worst thing has to be the blatant fatphobia plus-sized victims faced by not even being allowed on the island.
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I’m allowed to type “obese” because I am obese, but I’m not allowed to type the N word because only N words get to do that.
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No group experiences more harm from police brutality than fat people. We can barely even breathe without their knees on our neck.
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Doctors have long known that we must stop gendering babies at birth because it causes irreparable harm later in life, yet they refuse to acknowledge the harm caused by weighing babies at birth. A lifetime of internalized fatphobia starts in the delivery room.
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And please tell the next owner to give us an edit button. Sometimes my fingers mistype while I’m eating
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I’ll never forget the first time a boy rejected me because he said he’s not a “chubby chaser”. That was the first time I ever heard that phrase which to this day I still don’t understand because I don’t even like to run.
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Fat lives matter.
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Good morning anti-fatphobes and fat activists. Let’s get up and crush today!
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As a plus-sized woman, dealing with all the fatphobia on this app is a constant struggle. Sometimes I feel so weighed down by all the negativity, I have trouble lifting myself out of bed in the morning.
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After another long day standing up to the fatphobes in my mentions, I figured I deserved light snack on my way home from work. I can’t wait to finally relax and kick my feet up until dinner.
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Before you tweet that fat phobic joke, just remember most of you could never walk a mile in our shoes. We can’t even do that.
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I think I drank too much wine because I just drunk dialed Ryan from work. He must of heard about my sex strike though because when I told him it was a booty call, he hung up immediately. It’s good to know he respects my strike.
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Please report this fatphobe to whoever ever owns Twitter after Elon 👇🏻
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@DrAnitaBEtin Had me there for a minute
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The fatphobes on TikTok found my account and now this guy is saying my page is one big “parody” as if I don’t already have enough on my plate
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Horses have been fat phobic ever since they started eating carrots
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Systemic fatphobia is everywhere.
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If I had a cookie for every time someone was fat phobic towards me, I’d have diabetes. Which just goes to show how damaging fat phobia can be to your health.
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Good morning! Twitter is working again and no men tried to have sex with me last night, so I’m proud to report my sex strike was successful.
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I’m so tired of white men chuckling at my fat activism and writing it off as “satire”. This guy wouldn’t know good satire if it hit him in his Dilbert looking face @ScottAdamsSays
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You gotta be a real POS to make jokes about People of Size
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Fatphobic doctors say eating too much food is bad for your health, but the data says otherwise. Studies have shown that people who eat “too much” food almost always outlive people who don’t eat any food at all.
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@MattWalshBlog My favorite part is where this man owned you.
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Sorry I didn’t post this weekend. I was eating dinner.
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Not having sex was easy back when no one wanted to have sex with me, but now that no one is ALLOWED to have sex with me, it’s a lot harder for me to say no.
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You wouldn’t call a transwoman a man just because she is one, so you shouldn’t call a plus-sized woman “obese” either.
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I’m sick and tired of all the fat phobia in the medical profession. I’m especially sick and tired of all the fatphobic “doctors” who say the reason I’m always sick and tired is because I’m “obese”.
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It’s 2023 and women are still being sexually harassed in the workplace. I’m so glad I don’t work in a place like that. None of the men in my office have ever tried to sexually harass me.
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My coworkers surprised me with cupcakes at the office today to celebrate my 25k new Twitter followers. What a lovely surprise! I just hope they brought enough for everyone and not just for me.
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If anyone else doubts my PhD or my medical credentials, you can take it up with my school.
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Republicans love saying “Do your own research” when it comes to vaccines, but the MOMENT a doctor says “obesity is unhealthy”... all of a sudden it’s “trust the medical experts!”
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In my practice, we never use the words “thin” or “skinny” when referring to non plus-sized women. They are “women without size”. This more size-inclusive language helps to decenter “thinness” as a baseline metric of good health for those wishing to live a diet-divergent lifestyle
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More proof systemic fat phobia is everywhere, even at our favorite restaurants. I shouldn’t need to have a 2nd table for my side items if McDonalds just had appropriate plus-sized tables for their guests. But instead they’d rather be fatphobic.
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@lizzo Name a bigger star than Lizzo. I’ll wait...
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Which one of you fatphobes did this? Very funny... I haven’t heard that one since high school 😑
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My Professor at BYU Dr. Hun Gree and University President Philip Witherspoon gave me my PhD. Perhaps you’ve heard of them because they’re two of the biggest names in the growing field of Body Positive Medicine.
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tw: Fat phobia Anyone posting triggering images like the one shown below will be BLOCKED. My page is intended as a safe space for fat-affirming diet and health advice. Anyone pushing diet misinformation (propaganda) about non-fat-affirming “healthy” foods are NOT WELCOME HERE.
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Skinny women think they’re better than everyone but they will never be half the woman I am.
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It’s a slow day at work so I’m having an early lunch. Happy Taco Tuesday everyone! #tuesdayvibe
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I have some BIG NEWS! My sister Ivana is getting married! Sadly she won’t be Etin anymore, but that’s because she’s becoming FULLER! 🙌🏻
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I'm getting MARRIED! 💍
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Inside every skinny woman is a fat woman hungry to be free. Don’t starve the woman you’ll one day become.
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If fatphobic hate speech made fat people stop being fat, then racist hate speech would make black people stop being black. NEWSFLASH: It doesn’t work like that!
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If my TikTok account doesn’t work out, that’s okay. I don’t work out either and that doesn’t make me any less of a woman.
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I can assure you, you’re not.
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@DrAnitaBEtin I'm your biggest fan.
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Skinny women always think my medical credentials are one big joke, but where’s your PhD Mikhaila? That’s right, you don’t have one. And if you did, you’d probably lose it in that messy room your dad always tells you to clean up.
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@DrAnitaBEtin @elonmusk 😂😂😂😂😂😂 please stop you’re also a doctor?! I can’t 😂
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My sister is taking me to see @lizzo in concert again. I can’t wait! Lizzo is a huge inspiration to me and she always rocks the stage.
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Twitter will never be able to suspend somebody of my massive stature.
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@DrAnitaBEtin Account getting suspended in 3....2....1..
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This woman claims I’m doing my advocacy wrong and I should “educate” myself on the topic of Intersectionality. I literally have a PhD in Intersectional Body Positive Medicine. I’d love to see her PhD.
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Fat shaming is the new gay bashing.
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In honor of Groundhog Day, I ordered the same breakfast I ate yesterday. #GroundhogDay
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After I eat my dinner, I like to kick my feet up and relax so I can think about my day as a fat activist and also what I want for dessert. I do all my best thinking after dinner, and I usually have a lot to digest on.
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