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A rant about bullying of fat people on the internet. (literature.cafe)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Karl@literature.cafe to c/casualconversation@piefed.social

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I've been seeing a lot of casual hate against fat people over the internet. Most of them justify their hate with "They have no excuse for being fat", " It will motivate them to lose weight ".

They make it sound like it's absolutely ok and the hate is a natural response to seeing an overweight person. I even saw a kid sharing his love for books in a video and one of the commentors was like, " Books are good, but exercise is better" and when he got backlash he was like "oh, he's gotta lose weight", "no hate, I'm just trying to be helpful" But is it right to do it under a post where he's sharing his hobby?

I know fat is unhealthy and that the person is better off without it. But is how healthy a person lives anyone's business except their own? I mean, it's not contagious?

Besides, people could have their own reasons to be fat. Maybe they don't have time to work out, maybe they have some physical problems that don't allow them to work out or maybe that's just the way they want to live. How do you decide they absolutely have access to a gym or have the time to work out based on a single pic or a short video?

Overweight people have become a kind of target for people who are bullies but don't want to be called out.

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[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

The whole focus on fatness shifts away focus from the two problem a society has - poor nutrition, poor basic education, and work culture.

That's why you see so much toxicity towards fatness in the USA vs other countries - because the government and corporations push that forward.

That people are overworked to extremes where cooking is difficult, that beef is subsidized so much while broccoli isn't , that education is so underfunded a course on actual nutrition is nearly non existent - those are all problems caused by the right wing and the oligarchy. And if you turn people against being fat, rather than being healthy, then it's easier to not pay attention to the real problems that society has.

And now, there's even an added financial reason now to avoid focusing on health and instead just purely on appearance, with drugs like Wegovy existing.

Being fat doesn't mean unhealthy, and neither does being skinny. You can be overweight but easily lift your own weight, you can fat and run a km under 7 minutes, and you can be skinny as a twig but struggle to open a jar or easily break your bones because you only eat 800 calories a day but 500 of those come from cookies.