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In reply to the discussion: Is it a person's "fault" if they're fat? What does that question really mean? [View all]Warpy
(111,255 posts)Food Nazis who scrutinize every bite an overweight person takes in public are overly puritanical. They're also dead wrong in most cases about how simple overweight is bad for one's health. They've found that older women at the insurance industry's "normal" weight died at a faster rate than did women who were classed as "overweight."
Antifat bigotry is the last acceptable bigotry because the bigots all pretend they're oh, so concerned about a fat person's present and future health. Many fat people can run circles around the thin at the gym and there is no motivation for getting the biggest nutritional bang for the calorie than having a bunch of people looking down their long blue noses at you because you are not thin.
The fact is that human beings come in all shapes, sizes, colors and from all sorts of points of origin and we have to accept them just the way they are because no one is going to change everything about his life just to suit us.