cw for weight/body image, of course
Usually discussions about this get overrun by chuds so I think it’d be nice to hear what people here have to say.
Personally I think it’s some good and positive ideas but they’re mixed in with potentially harmful medical misinformation.
Idk how you’re not policing shit when you start saying that saying “fat is beautiful” promotes obesity, like its not a literal meaning of fat cells are beautiful but that fat people are beautiful. Either way this kind of concern trolling is basically exclusively reserved for fat people when it comes to “Oh we shouldnt promote health issues” but people pretend that like a tiny text on a ciggarette packet that says “smoking kills” is equal to a global culture of bullying and dehumanizing people for being fat.
like its not a literal meaning of fat cells are beautiful but that fat people are beautiful.
Yeah obviously, for fucks sake. Let’s not pretend for a second that all fat people are beautiful, and that fat is the determining factor that makes them beautiful as your sentence suggests.
Being honest here, obesity has no upsides and instead of seeking to mimic how smoking is treated in popular culture and have people fetishize the act and killing themselves, maybe the thing to do is to discourage both but don’t dehumanise people struggling with either.
