Rant about weight, fat acceptance, obesity and health

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Look, OP, my main point here is that fat shaming does not work. All it does is depress them even further. That's never the best way to get fat people to lose weight.

Yup, which is a point a lot of people- a lot of people- don't get. Plenty of peeps will line up to judge or outright mock you if you're fat, and it's still weirdly socially acceptable to do it; I think that's what the body acceptance movement is in reaction to. This idea that you shouldn't be treated poorly because of the way you look isn't a crazy one.

But the other thing is, it's like, oh really, being overweight is unhealthy? I've never heard that before! Never once have I been told, in this appearance obsessed culture that's happy to pass comment on the weight of anybody around, especially women, that being overweight increases health risks. Thank you for telling me! I'll just completely change all my habits and be instantly fine, because diet is the only contributing factor to weight and you, a complete stranger, definitely knows everything there is to know about my health, what I'm already doing, and where I've come from! I'm so glad you saw it in yourself to make personal comments to a total stranger! /s

This idea that people desperately need to remind fat people of these things as though it just never occurred to them is dumb; of course they know. Everybody knows, it's not as if it isn't common knowledge. But hey, please do continue making unjustified assumptions, public at large, about a stranger in order to judge their bodies inferior and make unwelcome personal comments to them: we all know you surrender your right to privacy and being left alone in public at a certain weight threshold, after all.