Maher/Corden and obesity

[Shell B]

He obviously didn't mean it literally, as he explicitly said:

"We shouldn't taunt people about it. And we shouldn't single out overeating as the only vice"

Then what does he consider fat shaming?

I believe his argument is we should stop ignoring that obesity is a problem. That "healthy at every size" is bullshit. And I agree. And it's backed by science.

Of course people aren't healthy at every size. I don't think Corden was arguing that. My position is that these people are clearly unhealthy, but they definitely don't need us to tell them that. Their bodies are none of your business. Maher, who is often quite funny to me, has no reason to talk about it.

Maher was essentially saying that if considering obesity to be a bad thing is fat-shaming, then maybe we should bring "fat-shaming" back.

Obesity is only bad for the people suffering from it. It's generally established that other people's bodies are their business.

If you're saying saying you don't find the bit funny, then okay, cool. If you're saying you find it crude or classless, fair enough. But he simply didn't say anything egregious. Being obese is a bad thing. Period.

I don't care about crudity or how classy comedy is. I simply think pointing out that being fat is unhealthy isn't funny because it's obvious and over done. I also think his anger at fatness is pretty fat-shaming.

But you don't know that, because you didn't watch the bit, did you?

This is an interesting thing that people do when someone doesn't agree with them.

Listen, my conversation with you started when you said people say the word obese is fat shaming. I said no one here seems to think that, and it wasn't Corden's argument. It's simple.