There are a lot of shallow people in this world who judge others on looks, including the medical profession, with their nutty designation that body size is a "disease." The AMA is full of shit.

These people don't give a shit about others' body size which invariably is sexist because almost all of it is directed at women. They think they feel superior, or, if they were formerly "heavy," they act like a bunch of dry drunks trying to shove their evangelism down others' throats.

They don't even realize their attitude is based on bigotry.

I almost think it may help as people spend less time trying to blame willpower and more time seeking the root causes and treating them. I myself believe some people are predisposed to obesity, and managing a disease is a lot less psychologically damaging than being told you are lazy, etc

I don't even know what to add...I'm afraid if I start I won't stop. It's bad here, that's for sure.

I see it when Bloomberg decides that he's going to impose his standards for what we all must do on other people through laws.

To everyone who thinks we can "outlaw" obesity: How'd that work when we tried it with homosexuality?

Drug addicts are weak-willed, recipients of food stamps can't or won't get a job, fat people just won't stop eating. The list is endless. It's the kind of binary thinking and utter lack of empathy that I expect from "conservatives" and that I am still occasionally surprised at here on DU.

starting in grade school when I saw three boys picking on sweet overweight Sheila - who the F*** do these people think they are???? They are assholes!!!

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Anti-scientific and moral bigotry runs rampant in RWR, Libertarian and Randian circles. They revel in any excuse to find fault with other people for their own self-serving reasoning.

Disabled? Elderly? Obese? Poor?

Get out of the way, you might interfere with my pleasure or fun, or even cost me money!

FOAD!

Most conditions are temporary and a reaction to all kinds of input, emotional, physical and some beyond the control of the person affected. Some are not temporary.

All of it makes them 'The Other.'

You know, 'The Other.' The ones who must be removed from the gene pool to make the world a better place and give more 'freedom and liberty' to those not so afflicted.

Screw diversity. Social Darwinism at its best. Unless it happens to you. All are eligible for problems.

I have told some who have been teased because of their weight or other differences that don't match the Hollywood ideal:

They say you are ugly, but you can lose weight. But they can't lose the ugliness inside them and it comes out of their mouth. But it says more about them, than it does you. It is THEIR problem, not YOURS.

Answers for those who feel entitled to degrade and discriminate, could be drawn from other cultures, or even our own principles.

Not conforming in body image or any other way that does not harm others, is only a crime to a flock of chickens or a pack looking for a pecking order. Pure reflexive, animalist response. Not human.

Same as being overweight. Some claim sick or elderly people are in the way, dragging their standard of living down. How about looking up a bit higher, to the ones who kept your wages down, took your home, your health insurance, or whatever?

How very telling that some will turn on those they consider beneath them while they are too cowardly to look at who is really pulling the strings and who is benefiting by division.

Would they rail against this image:



If a loved one lost an eye, a finger, a limb, their job, their home or gets fat, should they be discarded? Just how shallow can one be? Are the ones judging others prepared to FOAD if Dame Fortune abandons them?

If one's mother gains weight over the years, do her years of sacrifice and love for her child, turn into something worthless?

Erich Fromm described the error of market values applied to human beings. Are we commodities, to be judged by what is trendy or pleases the eye as fickle as that is, but never looking at who is manipulating that perception, in the end?



To which I say:

If you are overeating because of stress.. putting someone under more stress by demeaning them.. would create an awful never-ending circle.

Totally forgot.

Lots of times I'll just say something about the food they may be eating like salty chips, pop, pizza or ice cream etc. It's puzzled me why people cant understand that highly processed foods super-high in salt, fat and/or sugar are deadly. But I realize its like telling a junkie that heroin is bad for you.

Can you also tell how many fingers I MAY be holding up right now? I mean, you're psychic, right?

Sorry, I've never seen or heard of an obese natural/health food addict yet. The corporate junk food processors are like drug pushers. They know that foods/drinks high in salt, sugar and fat are highly addictive and I hate them almost more than Big Tobacco or oil.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that bullying heavyset people is counterproductive.

Anti-fat bigots should be treated just like racists: ostracized and stigmatized.

And by parents, I mean father and stepmother.

We were all driving to a destination wedding in a rental car, with then-new satellite radio in it.

The news reader said, "After a three year, three million dollar study, it has been found that people who take psychedelic mushrooms are far more likely to report having had a religious experience than people who took non-psychedelic mushrooms are."

My response, screaming? "And THAT'S why America is fucked up! They could have just asked me! They could have just asked me when I was tripping balls in that Grateful Dead parking lot and trying to touch the stars! Did they ask me? No, they spent three million taxpayer dollars to find out that psychedelic drugs are called psychedelic for a reason, and they waited until 2003 to ask a stupid fucking question!"

are browbeaten and made to feel bad about themselves - it hardly strengthens someone's ability to make positive changes.

It ain't easy.