Is it time to encourage obesity?
Noah Boart:
I agree, but what if we aks9 promoted being plus size not with gluttony, but with both an accumulation of body shaping and muscle to help keep fat away from hearts and arteries?
There is technically already a sub-sect of lifters who do this. We turn bad health to a new type of body building
Munchies:
Something to point out here: health is only a subsection of fatphobia. You can be an Olympic-level power lifter, and people will still shit on you about your size.
I love obesity as much as the next feeder, but sadly, it's not so simple to eradicate fatphobia. I don't say this to discourage you. I support anything that seeks to push back against any form of bigotry. I only say this because a narrow focus on the issue will leave you vulnerable to attacks from other angles.
LuvsChub04:
Agree,N on a side note Munchies,i met a power lifter few years ago. Very fit yet people still said she was obese... Yet BMIS are another story..
Fatphobia will always exist, same for skinny shaming as well.. Nothing will ever stop it on either side...
Munchies:
Hell, you can be thin and still deal with fatphobia. I remember my mom fat shaming me as a child because I went from 115 to 120 at 5'7". I was 15. Apparently going from the high end of being underweight to the low end of being normal weight made me fat? Idk
Health is truly only one aspect of fatphobia.
Enas:
There are many complex issues in this world, fatphobia is not one of them.
There isn't a health aspect to fatphobia. There is only a perception aspect and a historical/social aspect to it really, because it is entierly a result of behaving on unfiltered -and to be frank, of very bad quality- perception, plus the fact that our current society has decided that fat is "bad" and "ugly" (as opossed to what it had decided for fat, 2 centuries ago, for example).
On a side-note, my own mother has called my gym-rat brother (a very muscular person), "obese".
I agree, but what if we aks9 promoted being plus size not with gluttony, but with both an accumulation of body shaping and muscle to help keep fat away from hearts and arteries?
There is technically already a sub-sect of lifters who do this. We turn bad health to a new type of body building
Munchies:
Something to point out here: health is only a subsection of fatphobia. You can be an Olympic-level power lifter, and people will still shit on you about your size.
I love obesity as much as the next feeder, but sadly, it's not so simple to eradicate fatphobia. I don't say this to discourage you. I support anything that seeks to push back against any form of bigotry. I only say this because a narrow focus on the issue will leave you vulnerable to attacks from other angles.
LuvsChub04:
Agree,N on a side note Munchies,i met a power lifter few years ago. Very fit yet people still said she was obese... Yet BMIS are another story..
Fatphobia will always exist, same for skinny shaming as well.. Nothing will ever stop it on either side...
Munchies:
Hell, you can be thin and still deal with fatphobia. I remember my mom fat shaming me as a child because I went from 115 to 120 at 5'7". I was 15. Apparently going from the high end of being underweight to the low end of being normal weight made me fat? Idk
Health is truly only one aspect of fatphobia.
Enas:
There are many complex issues in this world, fatphobia is not one of them.
There isn't a health aspect to fatphobia. There is only a perception aspect and a historical/social aspect to it really, because it is entierly a result of behaving on unfiltered -and to be frank, of very bad quality- perception, plus the fact that our current society has decided that fat is "bad" and "ugly" (as opossed to what it had decided for fat, 2 centuries ago, for example).
On a side-note, my own mother has called my gym-rat brother (a very muscular person), "obese".
Wait until you hear about medical fatphobia
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