lex-scripta:

I grew up in South Africa.

Not the best country, but not the worst when it comes to…well, everything.

It’s got some of the most beautiful architecture and it’s got some of the biggest squallers. It’s a land of contradiction.

As a result, I grew up seeing both sides of human nutrition. My teachers were overweight, bordering on obese. But my fellow students sometimes didn’t have lunch because their family didn’t have any food. Even worse, I saw children my age without a family and without food, begging near the squallers camps. (called plakkerskamp in Afrikaans)

Then there is this culture preaching Fat Acceptance. When I first read about it, I was absolutely horrified.



Here is a demographic of people, eating so much that they become overweight/obese to the point that it’s affecting their health negatively, and then they try and justify their excess weight by hiding behind the argument of “eff your social beauty standards”.



It’s justifying gluttony. A luxury that most people don’t have.

A luxury that people are trying to justify in the face of people starving to death.

Fat Acceptance is a first world problem that insults third world suffering.

/rant