Where do you draw the line between legitimate fat acceptance and science denialism?

[EgoDeath]

5)  Fat people can be just as physically active as non-fat people

I'm sorry. I originally read this as "as physically attractive as non-fat people."

And, unless an overweight person is eating enough calories to make up for their physical activity, no. Chances are, an overweight person is not as physically active as a thin person.

To be fair though, I know plenty of hefty guys who work in construction, or work physically demanding factory jobs or something else. Those guys I remember from my physical labor days would also get McDonalds for lunch and Taco Bell for dinner, or some other combination of fast food, at least once or twice a day. So, sure, you can be fat and physically active. But if you're eating more calories than you're burning, it doesn't matter how "active" you are.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I've honestly never thought much about this, likely because I've never had a weight issue.

TJ, I think it might be in everyone's best interest if you tell those people who are bagging on you for losing weight to jump straight up their own collective arse (this is assuming you haven't already done so) and mind their own bloody business.

I can accept fat people.  I can accept thin people.  I can accept tall people, short people, the hirsute, the bald, old, young - just about anyone (bar the French, of course).  But what I can't accept and won't abide are eejits who don't recognize their own hypocrisy by taking the position, 'If you're not willing to look like me, that means you hate me. You are therefore a terrible person.'  Dafuq?

So, let 'em act the maggot, luv.  They aren't worth worrying over. You be you.

Boru