RE: Rant about weight, fat acceptance, obesity and health
October 23, 2015 at 3:46 pm
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2015 at 4:11 pm by Regina.)
I've heard a lot of politically correct bullshit lies and half-truths in my short life. Never have I heard such outright lying like the people who try to claim there are no adverse health impacts of being obese.
You are at higher risk of getting a heart attack, diabetes, stroke, cancers, the list goes on. If those don't kill you, then gradually the weight you are carrying will press down on your joints bringing on severe arthritis.
If you're trying to advocate that everyone feel comfortable in their skin and pay no attention to unrealistic beauty standards, go ahead. I've had body image issues myself, I'm all for education on what "normal" bodies look like. Being 200lbs overweight is not "normal" or natural, and don't dare try to claim it's healthy.
This is what happens when you allow people to be "experts" on particular issues they are not sincere about. Being overweight is not the same as feeling insecure about being a flat-chested woman, being short, having "the wrong colour skin" or having worries about your genitals. Those are natural and normal things people are shamed for, which you can't change short of surgery or drastic measures. Losing weight you can start right now and see results in weeks with commitment. Don't like it? Hit the gym.
You are at higher risk of getting a heart attack, diabetes, stroke, cancers, the list goes on. If those don't kill you, then gradually the weight you are carrying will press down on your joints bringing on severe arthritis.
If you're trying to advocate that everyone feel comfortable in their skin and pay no attention to unrealistic beauty standards, go ahead. I've had body image issues myself, I'm all for education on what "normal" bodies look like. Being 200lbs overweight is not "normal" or natural, and don't dare try to claim it's healthy.
This is what happens when you allow people to be "experts" on particular issues they are not sincere about. Being overweight is not the same as feeling insecure about being a flat-chested woman, being short, having "the wrong colour skin" or having worries about your genitals. Those are natural and normal things people are shamed for, which you can't change short of surgery or drastic measures. Losing weight you can start right now and see results in weeks with commitment. Don't like it? Hit the gym.
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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
