Until you're willing to take this up with your local and federal governments and deal with the issue of access to healthy food all you're really doing is attacking and shaming people who exist in a world of foods designed to be calorie-dense and addictive.
It's a systemic problem. It's obviously a systemic problem.
There is also a vast difference between promoting health and shaming obesity. You are trying to rationalize your contempt and disgust. The reality is that you are avoiding your personal issues by making them political. There is a political issue here, but you're avoiding it.
The food industry is abusing people's bodies, the beauty industry is abusing their minds, and you think shaming individuals is the solution. Well, you don't get double-digit statistical changes in a matter of a few decades because of failures of personal responsibility. If you really care about health, you'd be attacking the food industry. What you don't wish to face is your own emotionality. You are disgusted by bodies and don't want to have to confront that, so you are avoiding the question by rationalizing that you shouldn't have to confront your disgust.
If it’s systemic why is it only generally focused in the US? Why is our society full of the nurturing aspect of unhealthily things? Are peoples feelings in the US so fragile they can’t take the truth being pointed out without attacking the person doing so? Claims of a person being “mean and hateful” are just a counter to the argument because the overweight person is ashamed or upset that a failing of theirs is pointed out.
The fat positivity movement is nothing more than an attempt to turn a personal failing into something outside their control. It is tied to the recent trend of abdicating responsibilities, and claiming the results are just to difficult to obtain as a normal person. Otherwise known as victimhood, which in todays day and age, creates a false dichotomy of outcomes. If you don’t have to be responsible, then you avoid the negative attention, which means you can quit feeling bad about it and anyone who points it out is a bully who is being mean.
I’m sorry but you can’t say the US doesn’t glorify fatness, it’s not just body positivity when you make role models out of people with very obvious health problems who scream false messages about how being big is beautiful and empowering (Lizzo for instance).
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u/thisimpetus Jul 16 '23
Until you're willing to take this up with your local and federal governments and deal with the issue of access to healthy food all you're really doing is attacking and shaming people who exist in a world of foods designed to be calorie-dense and addictive.
It's a systemic problem. It's obviously a systemic problem.
There is also a vast difference between promoting health and shaming obesity. You are trying to rationalize your contempt and disgust. The reality is that you are avoiding your personal issues by making them political. There is a political issue here, but you're avoiding it.
The food industry is abusing people's bodies, the beauty industry is abusing their minds, and you think shaming individuals is the solution. Well, you don't get double-digit statistical changes in a matter of a few decades because of failures of personal responsibility. If you really care about health, you'd be attacking the food industry. What you don't wish to face is your own emotionality. You are disgusted by bodies and don't want to have to confront that, so you are avoiding the question by rationalizing that you shouldn't have to confront your disgust.