I just have to say something. I don't get the body shaming people on this site. We are collectively against racism and sexism but there is a small group who insists that fat shaming is okay and will attack anyone who calls them out on it. Yes, obesity is a comorbidity but there's a way to convey that without name-calling and making fat jokes. I suspect many of those commenting aren't skinny themselves and at the very least know and love someone who is overweight so why focus on that instead of the fact that the person was a Trumpster who refused vaccines? Why is the fat joke the first thing the go to for laughs and insults instead of the main concern and that is "wtf is wrong with that person for refusing the vaccine despite all the scientific evidence that shows it helps??" We don't allow racist posts, we've stopped allowing sexist posts (remember all the disgusting comments on the stories of women months ago), why are we still okay with fat shaming? Someone please explain this to me. Maybe I'm just an idiot and a party-pooper but I truly don't get it.
Oh, I tried smacking asshats down for their bullshit, but even the ones that seem decent on all other fronts have said shit like, “it’s ok to shame fat because fat is shameful”. I even tried to educate about metabolic disorders and how shaming fat just let’s sick skinny-fat people think they’re healthy. The data doesn’t lie. The problem is we have a fuckton of sick people that don’t know they’re sick but like to sit on a high horse and attack the “other”. One person who seems very well-educated called a person a “whale” that he was attracted to before he realized she was a “whale”. These people are fucksticks and they can’t comprehend how grotesque and wrong they are. I’d offer them links to researchers so they can begin to grasp the complexities of metabolism but theyre far too comfy in their superiority. They think they’re controlling the works and not the other way around. Lots of hubris out there. People like or feel like they’re superior. They’re not.
Btw, all these supposed pro-science body shamers ought to stfu and learn a thing - or million - from Dr. Johnson. They think they’re smarter than him? Think again. Science is science. The last great “acceptable” bullying needs to die.
You're not an idiot or a party pooper. You're spot on. Quoting some peer reviewed literature: <<Many health care providers and patients share the belief that obesity is the product of poor lifestyle choices that are under the voluntary control of affected individuals. This can lead to stigmatization of people with obesity and a reluctance to use the full range of available treatments... It is now generally recognized that body weight is a physiologically regulated parameter, and obesity is recognized as a disease of body weight regulation, much as diabetes is a disorder of glucose regulation and hypertension is a disorder of blood pressure regulation....>>
Lots of us who care about others and are masked, vaxxed and boosted know how agonizingly hard it is to lose weight and keep it off. Our bodies are programmed NOT to cooperate.
When AVers act all Trump-y and bigoted and hateful, it's easy to despise them. But their obesity reflects the fact that their genetic and environmental milieu was/is abysmal. We have plenty enough to scorn them for that IS under their control. I agree that it would be best to leave weight out of it.