To my understanding, this blog is about a social justice issue, which is fine. However, you must admit that there are serious health risks to being overweight. Serious medical research links being overweight to heart disease, high blood sugar, diabetes, kidney problems and more. I myself used to overweight but starred running to live a healthier lifestyle because I was worried about these issues. My doctors have told me I have added up to 5 - 10 years to my life by doing this. Thoughts?
Hm. Would it be too forward if I said --
1. No, I don't agree.
2. Health as a general concept is an ever-changing arbitrary measure that most health researchers and professionals can't even agree on and is mostly used to promote pretentious 'lifestyle elitism,' public and corporate programs, diet and supplement companies, and the marginalization of unpopular groups rather than actual, discernible 'health.'
3. Coming on here and saying that blogs about social justice are fine but that social justice for fatties apparently depends on how 'healthy' they are by mostly bullshit and ultimately irrelevant measures is assholish, demonstrates a clear lack of understanding of civil rights and social justice, and is derailing at best.
4. Wow, so doctors are fortune-tellers, now? Horseshit. And what he said is statistically wrong by the latest research (and even if it was statistically correct he could never make that claim in a reasonable way for an individual -- that's the nature of statistics, which some doctors sadly do not understand).
Yeah, so, maybe that was too forward. But I'm a visible fatty who won't be boxed in by healthistic hate-mongering any longer, so -- PUBLISH