When people get terrified or outraged at the idea of “glorifying obesity”, I always wonder what it is they’re afraid is going to happen.
Do they think that all the sudden people who were thin are going rush out to pack on the pounds, or that across the country school kids will be fixated on fat and compete amongst each other to see who can become the fattest, that it’ll show up on the 6 o’ clock news as the latest alarming trend in our nation’s youth?
I mean, do they think that if people see pictures of fat folks looking nice and smiling and being happy and not hating their bodies that everyone who was about to eat a salad is gonna toss it out in favor a cheeseburger (even the vegans!) and cancel their gym memberships?
Are they scared that a $20 billion dollar weight gain industry is gonna crop up and magazines are going to talk about “packing on those last fifteen pounds before summer”. Do they think suddenly there’s gonna be a flood of ads saying, “Gain belly fat using this one weird old tip” on people’s computer screens?
Do these people think positively presented fat bodies are so powerful and persuasive that it will convince thin people to utterly abandon thinness and dedicate themselves to getting as big as they can?
Or are they upset that people who were already fat will go around continuing to be fat without being punished for existing. Perhaps what they fear is that if we “glorify” obesity, that fat hate will make less and less sense to the world in general and that eventually, weight will become a neutral property. Thinness won’t be so valued that it can sustain industries, nor held as the perfect way to have a body but be seen as one among many valid body types.
Maybe, even worse, all this glorification will lead to the idea that all bodies are valid and that bodies are never anything to be ashamed of or shame someone for.
Glorifying obesity = fat people are existing and not apologizing constantly for being fat. How dare they.
We hate fat people’s existence and actively shame their bodies in the name of “fixing” them when it is shown that it doesn’t work.
We do not care about health. We care about being skinny by any means necessary.
Some are fat shaming and wrong, yes. But a lot of people are against glorifying OBESITY because it’s up there with glorifying malnourished or underweight people. Basically, both extremes can be the result of an eating disorder and cause bodily harm.
Yes, love fat people and even obese people. Make sure they know they’re loved no matter what. And we definitely need to romanticize and love overweight bodies. But severe obesity isn’t healthy. It shouldn’t be glorified cuz it will condone that. Obese people should be loved and supported and what they do with their body is their own thing. But if you make something unhealthy a trend it has consequences, i.e. being stick thin and eating disorders.
Obesity and overweight are two different things. Go ahead and love and glorify fat people cuz fat people can very much be healthy. Don’t glorify something that is damaging however. And obesity can very much be damaging.
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