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Dating While Fat: You Don't Owe Anyone an Explanation of Your Body

Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. There are certain archetypes you encounter when dating as a fat person — particularly a woman who dates men. When Nora joined Tinder in , she was 32 and newly back in New York after living in Ireland for six years. She had no social life in the city, and app dating seemed like a fine place to start one. Like so many women, Nora had forged a whole new relationship with her body in recent years. The concept was not new. It emerged from the much more radical fat activism movement of the s, which intersected with the mid-century feminist and civil-rights movements and primarily focused on issues of systemic bias, like workplace discrimination, and equitable health care. And some of them, including Nora, did eventually find their way to the deeper issue of anti-fat bias through their own body-positive journeys. Still, she had a well-earned level of skepticism and anxiety about app dating. So when she met Sean not his real name , she found herself in a tough spot.

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Welcome to Ask a Fat Girl , a column in which Charlotte Zoller addresses your questions about living life in a bigger body. Have a question for Charlotte? Send it to submit askafatgirl. All submissions will remain anonymous unless given explicit consent to share first name, age, location, or body size. What your date did was inexcusable. You absolutely do not need to disclose your size in writing, and his suggesting what you should is dehumanizing.

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Meeting a potential partner in the wild, meet-cute style would obviously be preferable to a mutual right swipe on Tinder. After all, what does my size have to do with dating? The answer is… everything.

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I’m Fat, & That Makes Using Dating Apps Difficult

WooPlus, the largest BBW dating and chat app, plays the cupid for plus size singles and people who admire curvy singles. As one of the best BBW dating sites, WooPlus helps those who appreciate plus size ladies to meet and date local chubby singles. Each day, your attractive photos will be visited by millions of curve lovers. And you will meet lots of local guys who like your full-figured body type.

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