#obesity construct

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Fat phobe mal-logic: Diets don't work, permanently being on a diet does-you know that's stupid don't you?

The overwhelming impulse of the 'obesity' crusade is not to get people to "lose weight" its to get them living on a calorie restriction diet. Everyone, including slimmer people. If dieting worked, fat people could not be oppressed by its imposition and slim people's suppressed resentment would not become fat phobia.

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Positive objectification dehumanizes

There's a clever old post using Sherlock Holmes to explain that our greatest strengths are the other side of our greatest weaknesses and vice versa.

Pretending to be all good reduces humanness. The 'obesity' construct is where the slimstream has decided to dump everything they don't like about being human. 

This leaves them with "missing parts" and that is why this construct is an extension of slim people now (reduced) mindset. It's why they cannot leave fat people alone. They are drawn to use us to visit the parts of themselves they deny.

Positive objectification maybe privileged, but only compared with negative objectification. Turning yourself into an object, dehumanizes, regardless.

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An echo chamber is the 'obesity' construct where fat people have to be defined out of human sentience

Humanness is incompatible with this falsehood. The truth fat people's realness would cause this falsehood to implode.

'obesity', and remember it's not the word, it's what it is naming-which is the idea of people as disease-is made in ignorance and can only survive in it.

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Concern trolls are just the wishful thinking 'obesity' police

Fat people are defined by the false hegemony of the 'obesity' construct. That seeks to define fatness as a singular "disease" that has predictable symptoms and a defined course.

This wishful thinking creates an overweening desire to enforce "dis" or unease in fat people, to make 'obesity' seem to be as real as they can make it. Real disease doesn't require such policing. No one insists someone with real disease, must have such and such symptoms. 

If they don't then it becomes a feature of that condition, that no everyone has it in the same way.

Notice, fat people are allowed to vary less than people with real disease. The interest in trolling is the urge to make you feel think and act out being sick-whether you are or not- as you have been already assigned by the scientific and medical hierarchy. Folks are able not to care about the damage this may do to you, because you're already defined in their minds as 'damaged goods'.