My sister has this to say about the Fat Acceptance post/comments:
It’s really interesting to me to watch how people behave over how other people look.
Even if you couch it with “Well, I just want them all to be HEALTHY!”, it still boils down to you being worried about what someone else is doing…why, specifically?
If it’s because it’s a friend or family member that you KNOW is engaging in unhealthy activity though they have the means to do otherwise, that’s one thing. That friend or family member is someone you have personal interaction with – you have firsthand experience with their habits, and you have an emotional connection with that person – you put stock in their continued existence on the planet.
But if it’s just someone you see walking down the street, you don’t know what their state of health is. You don’t know why they’re big. And unless you’re some kind of superhuman that really DOES give a shit about the well-being of absolutely everyone on the planet, I highly doubt that you are actually, personally, specifically, individually concerned for each and every Headless Fat Person whose ass you see on the nightly news during the latest piece screaming about how the world will soon fall off its axis because 600 people in the Detroit Metro area have gained 500 pounds apiece in the last year, thus throwing the balance of the universe off.
I always wonder what the real motivation for this kind of behavior is.
Also, just want to throw this out there —
If you believe health care costs for the obese are ruining your life, then you have a long road ahead of you to fix it. And, oddly enough, it doesn’t involve saying, “Hey! You! Fatass! Stop eating so much!”
It involves a whole slew of other things.
For instance, eradicating poverty. Because just as important as HOW MUCH you eat is WHAT you’re eating. And poor people can’t afford stuff – it’s kind of what being poor means. If you only have 50 dollars a week to spend on groceries to feed your family of 4, are you going to head for the boneless, skinless chicken breast for $6.99 a pound? No, you’re going to head for the 99 cent package of hot dogs, the 10 cent ramen, and the 87 cent mac&cheese. Yes, the chicken is much healthier for you and your family, and you probably KNOW that – but buying that chicken will take a considerable chunk out of your 50 dollars and mean that you’re going to have no food for other meals.
Y’know, unless we want to see about passing some legislation that poor people are only allowed to eat on Mondays and Fridays (with one alternating Wednesday a month), because they’re not allowed to buy things that aren’t healthy. I imagine that’ll get rid of a lot of fat people for you.
Thoughts?