You are probably going to take this the wrong way but I'm going to ask anyways. So my question is about obese people and their own self respect. Your body is your temple and you only have one so you should take care of it, correct? Now given that the obese person doesn't have any medical conditions prior to becoming overweight and it was their own fault, why should I respect somebody that has no self respect for their own body? I'm not saying being obese is not beautiful but it is unhealthy.

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gingernaaut-deactivated20150717

I’m only going to take it “the wrong way” (since you’ve made it clear that your way is The Right Way™) because you obviously didn’t bother to read anything on this blog before sending a disgustingly ableist message.

But my favorite part is where you decided that my body and everyone else’s body is a temple. Where you decided that your version of “taking care of it” is the only version. Where you, like pretty much everyone else, impose your white, protestant, puritanical morals on other people’s bodies. Fuck you.

You don’t get to decide if I respect myself. You don’t get to decide how much I respect myself or how much self-respect is enough to make me worthy of the respect of others. You don’t get to decide that my body is a temple. You don’t get to decide that how I take care of my body must not only conform to your morals but demand that my physical size comply with what your morals dictate my physical size “should be”.

Keep your fucking morals off my body.

-Fatanarchy

