(February 6, 2011 at 12:27 pm)Shell B Wrote: Not all people can exercise. Most people can practice basic hygiene, but hygiene really has nothing to do with being overweight or "chubby." Let's face it, most judgmental people don't look at an obese person and go, "Boy, they need to get exercise and practice healthy living." The sort of stigma I am talking about is that which typically goes something like, "Wow, what a disgusting fat ass." Stigma doesn't have to be negative (I mean, insulting). So why is it that is often the case? I think it is because some people are rather full of themselves and expect other people to be like them. I realize that expecting someone to exercise is still a little condescending, but it is far healthier than just writing someone off as a fat ass.
Usually, when a person lacks in one area, they lack also in other areas. One with poor choice of hygiene usually makes poor choices regarding exercise. As we are humans who are evolved to predict, analyze and simulate the actions of others, a consequence of that system is judgment calls, etc,. This has the effect of linking unrelated objects like exercise and hygiene together because of the way people operate.
Now, to deal with the majority of cases, not the exceptions like one being unable to exercise for medical reasons, it is a matter of personal choice.
It is a personal choice to not take showers.
It is a personal choice to not exercise.
It is also a personal choice to be negative all the time.
Point being, it is all personal choices for the majority of cases.
Therefore, it is nothing but reasonable to, as a personal choice, deride, judge, congratulate or hate those personal choices.
Hating things that cannot be changed is madness, but having a hatred for things that can be changed? Realistic.
Ergo, asking for people to not be judgmental of the fatties, is well... tilting at windmills.
Of course, then again, the very same judgmental folks may be doing just the same.
