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So I don’t really know how to start off with this but I have to get something a little bit off my chest. It may come off a little bit rant-like so apologies in advance.

Not too long ago I came across and read this article from Maclean’s Magazine, it’s a bit of a read so do bare in mind.

macleans.ca/longforms/the-end-of-fat/

It talked a little bit about GLP-1s and how they have changed/changing the world. The article didn’t villainize GLP-1s but also didn’t romanticize them either, I guess you could say that it was a more “nuanced” take to say the least? Either way from what it was talking about how that one day they might end up becoming more normalized and more accessible in the foreseeable future, which really makes me think that could we actually now be facing the beginning of the end of an era of fat as we know it?

Now there were discussions about this on this site beforehand and for the most part we shouldn’t be pressing the panic button on whether or not that bigger people will still exist and that a feedist community like ours will remind us that it’s a clear choice people made for this preference and kink. And I agree people should do what is best for themselves and their body either be weight gain or loss.

Okay sounds decent alright yes? But the problem is that the moment I step away from this community I’m in the world of glorified weight loss in regard to health, beauty and being acceptable to society because you took care of yourself. Then when people are doing something else to find their happiness (let’s say via body positivity) they get slammed labels like “delusional” or “brainwashed” or any negative-toned buzzword. Then they also see someone like me - a guy who is open for being attracted towards bigger women would be treated like we’re part of the problem, an outlier and not the norm. Only to find myself back to a site like this to “feel safe” as if it’s some sort of coping mechanism.

But… you know what, yeah of course we’re not normal. We are outliers. Men and women who simp on people’s unhealthy indulgences, lifestyles and (for some of us) even pay for it! But at the same time is that truthfully the worst thing about someone like me? Sure there are horror stories and a lot of bad faith actors, but I also like to think that there are others who are not that stupid when it comes to having this preference.

Now I am someone who really does like bigger women, it will be that way for pretty much the rest of my days. Lately I’ve started to become a bit more accepting of GLP-1s a bit more even if I may still have a slight fit towards them. However I’ve also mentioned before in other posts that I worry that one day having a preference like this will eventually become unacceptable. Sure to many cultures it can be a bit taboo, but to one day be something that’s completely outlawed? Yeah I wouldn’t want that to be the reality that I have to live with. I’ve seen people making crude statements and comments wanting people like me gone - all because we are “normalizing what shouldn’t be” the norm in society.

TL;DR… It ain’t always easy to be attracted to bigger women, especially now that we’re in the GLP-1 era. Sorry for my little rant!

It’s certainly not stopping anyone around here from eating to their soul’s content 👍 My wife and I are a combined 560 pounds or so and don’t plan on stopping indulging anytime soon!

Plenty of side effects with the new class of drugs; new ones coming out weekly.

As challenging, this has become the side effects that are coming out now are going to change the way that this moves forward. When people think that this has been a quick fix, and then they get really sick, it's gonna change perspective at a snap of a finger.

I fully believe, based off of historical change the last 20 years, this is going to be a fad rather than a lifestyle change.

I definitely share your concerns about what GLPs mean in the long run. At the same time, they're a non-issue in my life and, I suspect, many others. I've always been the outlier. I was a chubby kid, an obese teenager, and I'm a super-sized adult. I suppose I've always had options -- diet, exercise, surgery -- but I'm not interested. The availability of options won't make all big people disappear.

More serious that wrecking these communities, I'm afraid this may result in "You must take drugs ABC or else you can't do XYZ" in such a way you aren't allowed to do anything without taking those drugs.

I'm 75 years old. I have seen diet plans, weight loss drugs and weight loss surgery come and go. I have personally known two people who died from taking Fen-Phen. I've seen and heard about a lot of people who have died or became permanently disabled from weight loss surgery. (They keep blaming the "old" surgery, even when the new became the old.) Basically, your body can't tell the difference between someone in a concentration camp, and someone who wants to look more fashionable. We will never see the eradication of obesity.

A friend of mine took them and lost about 100 pounds and stopped taking them because they made her nauseous and gained it all back in like a month like a sponge, it was crazy. So unless you want to stay on these for the rest of your life or get gastric bypass surgery you are just going to gain the weight back once you have an excess of fat cells.

I think GLP-1s are another option in a wider array of options that are now available. I think the options will continue to get better and more appealing, even if they do mean taking them for life the same as people take many other medications.
At some point obesity will be seen as a curable disease, and if you choose not to accept the cure, you'll be penalized, probably by having insurance coverage dropped. And also people will think something else is wrong with you, like a person with poor vision who refuses to simply wear glasses.
As obesity becomes less common, those who reject the cure and embrace their size will be viewed as particularly disgusting. As well as those of us who desire them. Anyone who remains overweight, people will automatically assume they must have a fat fetish. So maybe it can become a more honest world in that regard, and we can finally admit to everyone that we're fat because we want to be that way.
But also, this is probably a decade or two away.

I dunno if its even feasible to think about where society will be in a decade yet alone two. Consider the amount of 'unprecedented' things that have happened in the past ten and twenty. Would you have been able to see things as they are today?