RE: What are your thoughts on fat acceptance?
June 7, 2017 at 2:21 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2017 at 2:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Allow me to suggest a subtle restatement. We didn't, as a country, collectively choose that "lifestyle" (god I wish people would cut this shit out....).
Rather, the total field of choices available constrain us in ways that contribute to it's emergence. Some of us are better positioned than others...some of us are luckier (genetic jackpot). Most of us could, conceivably, be healthier or do something about whatever needs improving with our health. I need to go to the dentist. There are always reasons, however, that we don't, particularly on average (and what else could we be speaking of when talking about demographics this large)...do what we could do...in a vacuum.
Ultimately, it will always boil down to a "well, I would do this or that better". "I have the time". Fine. You do, they don't. It beggars belief to imagine that you, in a sea of human beings...are so fundamentally different from them as that your personal difference and experience would somehow be indicative of theirs. Go get more like me. Go get access to that food. Make the time. Educate yourself. A charitable view of humanity would suggest that a great many of us -have- tried to emulate your example...and it's not the pinnacle, but for whatever reason could not maintain it. I doubt that a charitable view of this slice of humanity is going to arise from shaming, however, or the constant insistence on lifestyle deficiencies in the absence of predictable outcomes to known situations. If those people were in your shoes, in your position...do you imagine that they would choose differently than you have, differently than I have?
Personally, I find that my socio-economic peers eat what I eat, generally. We're buddies, we have dinner parties and cookouts.....you know, a balance between the wives and the hubbys. We like couscous too..in fact, my little group is probably every single person that uses the "ethnic/specialty" foods aisle at the grocery store, lol.
(I slip away to the neighbors for carnitas too often...but shh, don;t tell the folks at the tofu party that.... )
Rather, the total field of choices available constrain us in ways that contribute to it's emergence. Some of us are better positioned than others...some of us are luckier (genetic jackpot). Most of us could, conceivably, be healthier or do something about whatever needs improving with our health. I need to go to the dentist. There are always reasons, however, that we don't, particularly on average (and what else could we be speaking of when talking about demographics this large)...do what we could do...in a vacuum.
Ultimately, it will always boil down to a "well, I would do this or that better". "I have the time". Fine. You do, they don't. It beggars belief to imagine that you, in a sea of human beings...are so fundamentally different from them as that your personal difference and experience would somehow be indicative of theirs. Go get more like me. Go get access to that food. Make the time. Educate yourself. A charitable view of humanity would suggest that a great many of us -have- tried to emulate your example...and it's not the pinnacle, but for whatever reason could not maintain it. I doubt that a charitable view of this slice of humanity is going to arise from shaming, however, or the constant insistence on lifestyle deficiencies in the absence of predictable outcomes to known situations. If those people were in your shoes, in your position...do you imagine that they would choose differently than you have, differently than I have?
Personally, I find that my socio-economic peers eat what I eat, generally. We're buddies, we have dinner parties and cookouts.....you know, a balance between the wives and the hubbys. We like couscous too..in fact, my little group is probably every single person that uses the "ethnic/specialty" foods aisle at the grocery store, lol.
(I slip away to the neighbors for carnitas too often...but shh, don;t tell the folks at the tofu party that.... )
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