Body shaming, and "My Big Fat Fabulous Life"

[Pyrrho]

The only problem I have with "Fat shaming"  is that it's dishonest.  Please stop pretending you care about health,  it's blatantly untrue.  What you actually mean is you think fat people are gross and ugly. So if you're going to call out people on unhealthiness do it.  if you're going to go on  about health you have to call out every body. Smokers,  alcoholics, bulimics,  skinny people who eat poorly, pro-Ana's, blah blah the  List goes on.  But stop lying and saying you care about health!  Because you're just being a dick, because you find fat unattractive.

You are certainly correct that that is the motive in many cases.  But I think that "fat shaming" is problematic for another reason.  It is rude to make insulting personal comments about people.  I do not tell strangers that they should gain or lose weight, and do not tend to bring up the topic with friends and relatives either.  If they bring up the topic, I might comment, but I mostly have no wish to discuss such things with people.  Excluding people who are delusional, people usually already know if they are at a healthy weight or not (or they can go visit the AMA website or some other reputable site if they want to know what weight would be healthiest for them if they are in doubt).

I also do not typically tell people that they are ugly or pretty.  I would imagine most of them are out in public for some reason other than to hear my opinion on that.  But, if that is what is motivating them, they can ask.  Otherwise, they will likely be waiting a very long time for satisfaction.