Last week, my friend Jessica Luther published a Storify on The Subjectivity of Evidence and the ubiquitous habit of privileged people demanding that marginalized people provide objective evidence of their claims of oppression, alienation, and/or harm. The very next day after she published it, I tweeted this example of pushback I got in response to my assertion that dehumanizing images of fat people are harmful: **screen cap of a tweet authored by me reading LOL FOREVER followed by an image of a tweet directed at me reading So what harm does the media to fat people? Do you have any real scientific evidence? Remember: Correlation is not causation.** Jess, fresh off deconstructing this very flavor of bullshit, challenged him to explain, exactly, what sort of evidence he required, quickly revealing, as always, that there is an impossibly unattainable threshold for proof to convince any person who needs science to confirm widely reported lived experiences of a marginalized population. Because demanding evidence is not about ascertaining whether people are being harmed; its about denying that they are.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 03:57:01 +0000
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