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Hurting peoples feelings does not improve their health. My guess is (I don't know you) looking down on fat people is one of the mechanisms by which you make you
by gmarx 11y ago
Hurting peoples feelings does not improve their health. My guess is (I don't know you) looking down on fat people is one of the mechanisms by which you make yourself feel worthy. You are not doing it from their benefit. Believe me, it is a vanishingly rare person who is fat and doesn't mind it. The fat acceptance movement is about feeling helpless and just wishing people would stop giving you a hard time on top of it
- vox_mollis 11y agoMy guess is (I don't know you) looking down on fat people is one of the mechanisms by which you make yourself feel worthy I can correct your guess, here. Looking down on my fat former self is one of the mechanisms by which I keep myself healthy.
- rtl49 11y agoWe quickly lose sight of what it was like to have been a certain way. Whatever the origin of your unhealthy weight, and whatever purpose a negative evaluation of your past self serves, I think most would agree that derision is unhelpful as a tool for reducing obesity. On the other hand, its prevalence and the language many use while doing it seem to suggest that they find it gratifying. Some consider this a problem in itself.
- gmarx 11y agoI definitely think almost all of them find it gratifying but admitting to such is shameful, thus the pretense and alternative explanations like they care about healthcare costs for society