cw for weight/body image, of course

Usually discussions about this get overrun by chuds so I think it’d be nice to hear what people here have to say.

Personally I think it’s some good and positive ideas but they’re mixed in with potentially harmful medical misinformation.

  • VYKNIGHT [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 years ago

    Fat people shouldn’t get shit on for their weight, shit’s exhausting. But at the same time, I don’t think we should necessarily promote obesity with things like “fat is beautiful” because I’m in the boat of people who’d rather promote the idea that you don’t need to be beautiful to be a good person, instead of trying to spin everything as beauty. My line is that we shouldn’t encourage and look favorably at being fat, and we should try to lower the average weight and augment the overall health of society. However, this doesn’t mean that we should shit on fat people, if they’re comfortable with their own weight and aren’t dying to it, then live and let live.

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      4 years ago

      I’m sorry but that kinda reads like a backhanded compliment, at least when I encounter it in the wild. The “Oh people don’t have to be beautiful to be good” stuff, fat people are fucking beautiful and deserve to feel that way, swerving into “why do we even care about beauty in the first place” whenever this is brought up unintentionally just reads as “fat people aren’t beautiful but its mean to say that so lets just ignore the whole thing”.