Reply #126: Awful lot of high horses in here

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Fat people wear their problems on their body for everyone to see and judge because, fuck, do some of you judge harshly. How about in an effort to be fair all of you make up a sandwich board and write all of your negatives on it and walk around with that for a while so that the rest of us may judge you as well. Don't even pretend it's about health because you know fucking well it isn't. Do you go up to bicyclists not wearing helmets and tell them to mind their health and put on a helmet? What about people who drive too fast or don't wear a seatbelt? How about the normal-appearing person who drinks 1 L of booze every night? No, you don't care about health you care about the physical aesthetic. Don't deny your self-righteous contempt under the guise of concerns about health.

If you were really concerned about health you'd be raising holy hell about the growth hormones they feed our cattle (did you know that they can now fully fatten up a calf in half the time it used to take to get them fat enough to slaughter? But don't worry, I'm sure none of those hormones are residual in the meat or affect humans IN ANY WAY :eyes: ) Don't worry about the genetic modification of our foods and the chemicals used to grow them (and hey, did you know that it's only because of the invention of man-made nitrogen -- from petrochemicals-- that we can continue to grow the same crop in the same field without ever having to rotate? And the resultant boom in agriculture and advancement in corn genetics that we now eat a diet unlike anything our ancestors ever ate with processed grains being the primary ingredients in many of our foods. Surely there's no health repercussion there. If you're really worried about health (liars) tackle some of the greater issues that are killing the planet AND the people who live on it. I guarantee you that changing that will make everyone more healthy. But who are we kidding, it's not about health it's about you being repulsed by fat people.

I hate these threads and I hate that they piss me off so much I feel compelled to post but because I'm such a fucking ray of sunshine I'm going to make a wish for all of you fat haters -- this is my wish, that you eat well, exercise, maintain a size 4 and die young anyway. Or that you live to be very, very old and find that as you age the weight doesn't want to budge and you become fat and have people mock you. Let me introduce you some time to my 91 year old grandmother who's FAT and the only medication she takes is for her thyroid. No diabetes, no heart disease, no high blood pressure. Oh and what about her mother, my great-grandmother who was also FAT and died at 97 after having lived a similarly healthy life (oh wait, couldn't have possibly been healthy because she was fat but she lived to 97, wait, oh this does not compute). Or I could tell you about my other grandmother who was slim and pretty and died a rough painful death of cancer in her early 50s. She was so slim and healthy!

In other words, not that I think anything I say will change your disgusting preconceptions about fat people, your attitude about fat people says something way more ugly about you than gaining 100 lb would do. And you might want to ask your mental health professional if it's healthy to loathe fat people so much because I'm not sure that's very healthy.