Legitimate question from an ignorant thin girl: I know and understand that the vast majority of fat people are healthy. It's just their natural body weight. However, there is still a risk if you're massively over your natural weight (regardless of what that is), right? Just like how there's a risk associated with being massively under your natural weight? I'm sorry if this comes across as rude, ignorant or fatphobic.

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lesbianmichelmishina

Why why WHY is this important or any way integral to the privileging of thinness or discrimination against fat people?

It’s like asking if there’s a risk for health complications if you’re really really tall (there is — you’re more prone to nervous system disorders, joint issues, and cardiovascular issues).

Health is individual. Statistics only get you so far (and usually that means not that far at all). When you build your health profile one of your intersecting areas of consideration might be “really fucking fat” (just like for folks in my family it’s “really fucking tall”). Or it might not be. It certainly isn’t anyone else’s fucking business.

Why why WHY is the health of really fucking fat person a societal concern? Something we need to talk about and come to conclusions about and combat and be concerned with?

It’s NOT. These kinds of questions are rooted in a healthistic ideology. Where individual health is ultimately controllable, and reflects on someone’s social/moral worth (and if you’re an interventionist type, requires you to intervene in the health of others).

I do not accept the viability of the premise of these kinds of questions, just as I reject the ideological underpinnings of healthism.

-ArteToLife

I had to include this response because, hello Doctor Point-Misser!

throughfrozenwakes said: You can’t control your height so your argument is worthless.

Hilarious how widespread misinformation about the heredity of height and weight are. Weight is also hereditary, shitwaffle, almost as hereditary as height. And no, height is not 100% hereditary.

So yeah, my argument was incredibly fucking valid and you are just another willfully ignorant know-it-all who imagines that anyone else in the world gives a fuck what you think (they don’t).

-ATL