Rant about weight, fat acceptance, obesity and health

[Regina]

If someone is happy about the way they look, then I'm happy for them. It doesn't matter if their body doesn't look "normal" or "healthy" to me. What the hell is "normal" anyway? If I accept the person for who they are, then who cares about body shapes and sizes. They don't affect me.

And comparing fatness to smoking is funny. Smoking affects other people around you, not just you. Whereas obesity, that's their problem only.

Is it, though?

I live in a country where austere cuts are having to be made left, right and centre because of the economic recession. Those cuts have also impacted our health service, which could not take sufficient care of my Dad to keep him alive or out of pain as he was dying. You could easily argue that, if we didn't have do many obese people eating their way into a hospital bed, there would be more money to go around for people who have genuine un-preventable illness.

I also don't believe these particular fat people who are always complaining are happy about how they look. If they were so happy they'd have nothing to bitch about and wouldn't give a shit about peoples' comments. I can tell a confident fat person when I see one, because they're not bitching.