I was wondering if you had any actual statistics that demonstrate fat people being bullied or feeling bad about themselves in comparison to thin people, since a lot of your generalizations seem to be based on personal anecdotes?

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lightlydistressed

The fuck? Learn to use Google. The studies of fat bullying are every-fucking-where. Google Scholar “overweight children bullying.” Not only is bullying heavily studied and fat bullying noted as particularly harsh, but fat bullying is often used in other studies as a “side effect” of being a fat kid (and hence used to argue that “childhood obesity” should be obliterated).

Also, this: there’s an explicit policy war being waged against fat kids. Do you really think the literal billions of dollars being allocated both directly and indirectly (the ACA in the States allocated big bucks to “childhood obesity“ efforts, for instance) has had no effect on increasing the pressure on fat kids at all?

If the Google ignorance wasn’t bad enough! The lack of logic here is astounding.

-ATL

Furthermore, it is not our fucking job to give you any statistics or studies at all. Especially ones you can look up yourself, of course. But it is not our job to prove anything to anyone. We exist to provide a place for fat people to tell these stories. That’s what we’re for. If we sometimes choose to publish links to studies or stats, then that is our prerogative.

But at no time, ever, is it our job to fucking educate you. That is not what we are here for. We do not have to prove to anyone that our experiences are real.

Go fuck yourselves, you bigoted shitheads.

-MG