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its "disgusting" because society has brain washed you to believe that skinny is beautiful and fat is ugly...
just shut up. anyone with two working eyes, and half a brain can see that people that are obese are DISGUSTING...too skinny is also disgusting...i mean, you think its sexy when a woman is too fat she cant even walk, and has to use those motorized carts??? %%!%!
its "disgusting" because society has brain washed you to believe that skinny is beautiful and fat is ugly...
just shut up. anyone with two working eyes, and half a brain can see that people that are obese are DISGUSTING...too skinny is also disgusting...i mean, you think its sexy when a woman is too fat she cant even walk, and has to use those motorized carts??? %%!%!
Originally Posted by damnitzdom
Originally Posted by dayoyoman
First off, why is that obesity is so stigmatized? How does someone's weight affect you personally? They are people too and shouldn't be treated as second class citizens because of their weight.
The causes and issues of obesity are also not so black and white. It isn't as simple as eating too much food or not exercising enough. Contradictory to popular belief, obesity has neither been proven to be a cause of health problems nor is it a health problem itself. Large people can be just as 'healthy' as someone thin. Problems of obesity can't also be so easily attributed to the physical environment either. It may seem that people who are poor have less access to healthy food because live in an area that doesn't have any supermarkets or cheap grocery stores around them. But, geographically separating spaces where there might be more fat people like poorer neighborhoods doesn't hold much weight. It just can't be proven that there are so-called fat spaces. If there are these fat spaces, then wouldn't there be are where only thin people reside?
Has anyone ever considered the idea how political economy could play a role in maintain this so-called "obesity epidemic?" The current discourses on obesity promote thin bodies and 'healthiness' which means consuming less. However, there are constant ads and products that promote weight loss pills and exercises, which promote more consumption. These weight loss industries make enormous amounts of money perpetuating a contradictory ethic of thinness and consuming less while pushing out products that supposedly help people lose weight. It seems that capitalism is heavily invested in keeping people big in order to sustain the huge profits of the weight loss industry. Check articles on the 'political economy of bulimia' if you care to read more about this topic.
Placing emphasis on personal responsibility is also problematic. Sometimes it really isn't someone's choice whether they want to be big or not. When you see these really really large people, could really be from eating too much? Maybe it's genetic. The answers are not very clear. Also, so-called 'fat taxes' are nothing more than a needless tax that will only really affect the poor who are struggling already. Individualizing the issue of obesity just perpetuates neoliberal ideologies further into the current cultural hegemony.
So, what I really want to get out of this is that obesity isn't as simple of an issue as people make it out to be and really not that big of a problem. Don't take the studies you see on TV at face value, because research on obesity is still very complex and complicated. People need to stop stigmatizing fat bodies and making them morally inferior. They are citizens too and should be given the same respect you would give anyone else.
Originally Posted by damnitzdom
Originally Posted by dayoyoman
First off, why is that obesity is so stigmatized? How does someone's weight affect you personally? They are people too and shouldn't be treated as second class citizens because of their weight.
The causes and issues of obesity are also not so black and white. It isn't as simple as eating too much food or not exercising enough. Contradictory to popular belief, obesity has neither been proven to be a cause of health problems nor is it a health problem itself. Large people can be just as 'healthy' as someone thin. Problems of obesity can't also be so easily attributed to the physical environment either. It may seem that people who are poor have less access to healthy food because live in an area that doesn't have any supermarkets or cheap grocery stores around them. But, geographically separating spaces where there might be more fat people like poorer neighborhoods doesn't hold much weight. It just can't be proven that there are so-called fat spaces. If there are these fat spaces, then wouldn't there be are where only thin people reside?
Has anyone ever considered the idea how political economy could play a role in maintain this so-called "obesity epidemic?" The current discourses on obesity promote thin bodies and 'healthiness' which means consuming less. However, there are constant ads and products that promote weight loss pills and exercises, which promote more consumption. These weight loss industries make enormous amounts of money perpetuating a contradictory ethic of thinness and consuming less while pushing out products that supposedly help people lose weight. It seems that capitalism is heavily invested in keeping people big in order to sustain the huge profits of the weight loss industry. Check articles on the 'political economy of bulimia' if you care to read more about this topic.
Placing emphasis on personal responsibility is also problematic. Sometimes it really isn't someone's choice whether they want to be big or not. When you see these really really large people, could really be from eating too much? Maybe it's genetic. The answers are not very clear. Also, so-called 'fat taxes' are nothing more than a needless tax that will only really affect the poor who are struggling already. Individualizing the issue of obesity just perpetuates neoliberal ideologies further into the current cultural hegemony.
So, what I really want to get out of this is that obesity isn't as simple of an issue as people make it out to be and really not that big of a problem. Don't take the studies you see on TV at face value, because research on obesity is still very complex and complicated. People need to stop stigmatizing fat bodies and making them morally inferior. They are citizens too and should be given the same respect you would give anyone else.
Originally Posted by JFMartiMcDandruff
Cheap disgusting food
over here we don't find this weird, so fat ppl don't really care about being fat...it'snormalSAD