RE: Body shaming, and "My Big Fat Fabulous Life"
September 10, 2015 at 4:19 pm
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2015 at 4:27 pm by Regina.)
I think accepting obesity is wrong personally.
Now, I don't at all advocate going up to fat people in the street and making them feel shit about themselves, okuurr...
I just think it's a step too far the way that some people;
a) completely deny that being 400lbs has anything to do with the lifestyle choices they are making.
b) completely deny that being 400lbs has adverse health affects, and claiming that doctors who say so are just "fat shaming".
This isn't funny to me, it's dangerous. You're not going to say "oh I eat salad and go for walks every day but I'm still fat" (something I've actually seen written before). No bitch, you don't get to that kind of weight overnight or by accident, you get there by consistently eating too much and moving too little. It's just the truth. Then it's "oh well I have a high metabolism/thyroid problem". Even if you do, a thyroid problem and/or a slow metabolism would only make you, at maximum, like 50lbs heavier than average. It doesn't make you morbidly obese.
I just feel like if you don't like it, you can change it, there's countless diets to try and gyms around every corner, get to work. And if you're fat and comfortable in yourself, great more power to you, none of this applies to you I guess.
Now, I don't at all advocate going up to fat people in the street and making them feel shit about themselves, okuurr...
I just think it's a step too far the way that some people;
a) completely deny that being 400lbs has anything to do with the lifestyle choices they are making.
b) completely deny that being 400lbs has adverse health affects, and claiming that doctors who say so are just "fat shaming".
This isn't funny to me, it's dangerous. You're not going to say "oh I eat salad and go for walks every day but I'm still fat" (something I've actually seen written before). No bitch, you don't get to that kind of weight overnight or by accident, you get there by consistently eating too much and moving too little. It's just the truth. Then it's "oh well I have a high metabolism/thyroid problem". Even if you do, a thyroid problem and/or a slow metabolism would only make you, at maximum, like 50lbs heavier than average. It doesn't make you morbidly obese.
I just feel like if you don't like it, you can change it, there's countless diets to try and gyms around every corner, get to work. And if you're fat and comfortable in yourself, great more power to you, none of this applies to you I guess.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
