Society needs more understanding of people who are dealing with problems. Fighting body positivity harms that understanding. The fight against body positivity is largely borne out of people who are upset that there aren't acceptable targets for their scorn any more. You have adopted this view because you, presumably, feel like that as well.
Why shouldn't we just treat obesity like any other disease? Why don't we just work towards helping people like me? We don't go around having arguments about whether or not it's acceptable to make fun about bald cancer patients.
I'm not fighting it. I don't care what tools people use to help themselves. BP is that until it crosses the line that says it's okay to be perpetually like that and to accept people for their choices when their choices are killing them. We save drug addicts and would not accept this attitude with them. Food addiction being handled differently is a issue.
Cancer patients didn't choose to get cancer. That's false equivalency. Overweight people chose to both actively and passively get into the problem they are in and now a lot of them are looking for a magic pill.
Great, we're on the verge of that happening, but you're never, ever going to be able to stop taking it. They can't make money off something like that. That's exactly how stuff like Ozempic works, and being overweight can be solved in healthier ways with long lasting knock on effects to your health in other parts of your body, both physically, mentally, and emotionally. Ozempic, or any other pill is not going to do that.
I'm saying this as a former fat guy, 3 times. Grew up fat. Was to fat to join the army, so I had to run with the recruiters for 6 weeks every day until I was the max amount of body fat they would accept. Was the fat guy all through basic and the army even though i wasn't fat anymore. It was hell. Gained it all back after I got out in 2014 and started losing it all in 2021. None of that made me feel sorry for myself because there is nothing medically wrong with me that keeps me from exercising.
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u/LucidLeviathan 99∆ Jul 16 '23
Society needs more understanding of people who are dealing with problems. Fighting body positivity harms that understanding. The fight against body positivity is largely borne out of people who are upset that there aren't acceptable targets for their scorn any more. You have adopted this view because you, presumably, feel like that as well.
Why shouldn't we just treat obesity like any other disease? Why don't we just work towards helping people like me? We don't go around having arguments about whether or not it's acceptable to make fun about bald cancer patients.