[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]debraD wrote:
[quote]nephorm wrote:
You can be fat and not be lazy. And being fat does not give other people the right, or in their minds, the responsibility, to approach you unsolicited and give you advice about how you should lead your life.
The bottom line is that BOTH sides of this argument conflate the health risks of obesity with a moral imperative to be a healthy weight. You can have all the opinions you like about the aesthetics of being fat, or the health risks associated with it; but those opinions do not give you the right to treat other people like crap. [/quote]
Amen.[/quote]
Outside of ignorant people, most of the list in the OP isn’t that though.
The cloths size thing for example, isn’t treating people like shit. Not at all.
Again, no one should be acting like an asshole and going out of their way to yell at people from across the parking lot, or give advice without being asked, but the whole idea of “thin privilege” is redonk.
This one time, I was standing outside the bar with my girl at at the time, and some dude yelled out “fuck her, I did”. Single privilege, evil evil single privilege. [/quote]
This is not at you Beans but a rant directed at the general sentiment in this thread.
I don’t care much for the list in the url however I think you have to be blind to not be able to see the hateful shite that obese people are subject to. You won’t convince me that you honestly believe there are a small handful of ignorant people out there hating on the fatties and the rest of you are just concerned for the well being of your fellow man. The reality is closer to self-righteousness that rivals born again xtians and it is particularly thick in this forum probably because of all the former fatties and then some because you don’t think you get your ass kissed enough for being fit, as if that is some heroic feat or something. I’m going to go ahead and say this right now: working out does not make you anything more than a dude who works out.
I don’t care if it’s a choice or an excuse or whatever you guys are on about, it is simply none of your business what someone does or doesn’t make a priority and if not being fat isn’t important enough for them to work at what business is it of yours? No one needs to excuse anything because every person is free to get as fat as they want, just like you are free to bulk up as much as you want. Being fat IS YOUR RIGHT. Being respected of course isn’t but then why does anyone care at all?? Get a life and try being happy with it for fucks sakes.
Aren’t most of you right wing repub or libertarian types? What happened to mind your own business? How do you like it when the world points at you as if you are roided out small penised freaks because you are bodybuilding? Every reason you can find to point at a fatty someone can as easily point at a bodybuilder, right down to the cost of healthcare.
/rant =)
For the record, as many of you know, I’ve been on the chunky side, although never obese and then I’ve been on the lean side and now I’m on the muscular side and I could very easily slide back into being a fatty or even el chunko grande if my obsessive personality pointed me in a direction that took all my priorities away from training and you know what? I really wouldn’t give a shit or try and beg for forgiveness from the fit folks because in the end it doesn’t change a thing about my character. And because of course what I will give a shit about is the things I am focused on in place of training, which where a lot of hefty people are at. In the end I don’t think what you think you know about people is even close. Maybe you guys are just too young to know better…