dnhowell:

i swear to god if i see another person saying ‘if you think obesity is bad, you’re a fat shamer!!’ no obesity is a real problem that causes lots of diseases and just because i don’t like obesity, doesn’t mean i don’t like obese people it’s like, i hate cancer, but i don’t hate people with cancer or shame people who have cancer

You think fat people are like cancer, and that this somehow isn’t shaming them?

Wow.

Newsflash #1: Obesity is defined as being fat, not by having a disease, or any of the conditions for which fatness is a risk factor. You can be fat your whole life and never have a condition that’s even remotely linked with your fatness and still be labeled “obese.” Fatness not a disease (no matter what the AMA says), it’s a variation, a form of human diversity.

Newsflash #2: Human diversity is associated with different risk factors of various conditions. It’s true. Tall people, women, light-skinned people, people whose gene-pool was centered on certain places – all these groups have risk factors for certain groups of conditions.

Newflash #3: The vast majority of people labeled “obese” by the BMI do not look like the people who are featured (usually headless) in news articles about the “obesity epidemic.” They are people who look like this. (see Kate Harding’s BMI Project for more examples)

Conclusion: There is no “obesity.” There are just fat people, like there are women, or tall people. Tall people are afflicted with tallness in exactly the same way fat people are afflicted with fatness. Not like cancer. At. All.

So yes, saying you “hate obesity” is exactly like saying you hate fat people.

-ArteToLife

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