In her new music video for the song Anti-Hero, from the newly released album Midnights, Taylor Swift is tormented by her villainous inner critic. It's a really relatable, powerful video, but it has a major problem when Taylor steps on a scale and it reads, FAT.

I've seen many call on Taylor to change this scene. I'm creating this petition in the hopes of getting Taylor's attention.

Eating disorders are something many of us have experience with, and Taylor has talked about her own struggles with body image and the eating disorder behaviors she engaged in as a direct result of things said about her body.

I don't think Taylor intended any harm, but this scene absolutely does cause harm. It validates the very fatphobic messaging that led her to feel like she needed to not eat because a headline in a gossip magazine speculated about her (very small) stomach looking slightly bigger because of a weird angle or because she dared to eat a big lunch one day.

Aside from the harm this causes people of all sizes, Taylor isn't actually fat, and as a fat fan of Taylor's, this scene was just gut wrenching to watch. While I feel for Taylor, she doesn't have the slightest idea what my life, or the lives of any other actually fat person, is like. She doesn't have the lived experiences of being actually being fat in a world where being fat is someone else's nightmare. 

Fatphobia leads to medical discrimination. It can lead to serious medical conditions being left untreated, causing life altering consequences - or even death.

I'm not trying to minimize Taylor's body image struggles. But if "fat" weren't used as a bad word, Taylor - and millions of others - wouldn't endure these traumas. And those of us who are actually fat, and just trying to live our lives, could do so in peace.

With the size of her audience, Taylor has an unbelievable opportunity to address this scene, to acknowledge those of us who are saying this is a harmful, hurtful message, and to help foster positive change in a toxic industry that she herself has been harmed by. Simply by changing this scene, or removing it, she could help so many others not have to endure the same kind of messaging that led to her skipping meals.