Body shaming, and "My Big Fat Fabulous Life"

[Aroura]

I guess you did not see my rant in the smoking thread?  lol.


So, I guess no one is allowed to discuss it, or else we are body shaming. That is the level it has gotten to, and that IS a problem.  If a doctor bringing up your weight is now considered body shaming, then there isn't anything anyone can say, I guess, without being accuse of operating out of personal disgust, rather than concern.

Should I not care that my 34 year old friend had a heart attack?   If she'd had it due to smoking, AND there was a TV show glorifying smoking, you'd better bet your ass I'd have the exact same discussion, here.

This has gotten to be a lose/lose situation for everyone.  : You can't even bring it up without being accused of body shaming.  That's kind of my point.

I didn't say no one could bring it up and never used the words body shaming. I don't think I ever have used the term until the previous sentence. My point was to simply say that most fat people are painfully aware of the fact that they are fat, and it bothers them a great deal. 
That fact is not is lost on them. 

I would agree that you should care that your friend had a heart attack.  Who wouldn't?

Obviously a physician is in a position to a determine possible factors as to why someone a weight problem.  That's not something an person who is not a medical professional can determine by looking at someone or even knowing them personally. Obesity is not always attributed to lifestyle choices or lack of will, although that seems to be the easy answer. Underlying medical conditions, hormonal imbalances, psychological stress/depression, past sexual trauma, immobility from physical injury, addiction and any number of issues come into play.

Why should a show about a fat person bother people so much? There had to have been reprehensible, irresponsible, television shows before this one, right? Why does this particular show, surrounding this particular person, with this particular condition cause such outrage? It makes me wonder.

I'm sorry, my comment about not being able to bring it up was sort of rhetorically directed at my friend, who was upset at her doctor telling her she need to loose weight in order to have a healthy pregnancy.  I didn't really mean to direct it at you.

I also think I explained that her heart attack, combined with her refusal to even try and lose weight, combined with me seeing this show a few days later is why it bothered me so much.

To answer the bolded question more specifically though, it bothers me because it's an epidemic, one that is spreading, and one that should never, ever be glorified but is being glorified.  I don't actually give a rats ass about the woman in that show, I don't know her.  But she is ENCOURAGING bad behavior in people I DO care about, like my friend. 

Again, do I need to list every single bad TV show ever first in order to discuss this one?  Do you know that I haven't bitched about bad TV shows encouraging other kinds of bad behavior in the past?  Why are you so determined to defend this TV show in such a way?  It makes me wonder