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Really? Nah. What does a 63 year old healthy single woman look like? What about a 63 year old woman who had four kids? What about a 63 year old woman who beat s

Really? Nah. What does a 63 year old healthy single woman look like? What about a 63 year old woman who had four kids? What about a 63 year old woman who beat stage IV metastatic melanoma?[1] A "healthy" 63 year old person is going to look mighty different depending on the curves life threw them. So is it not overly legislative to bind a person's health choices to their looks when you don't have the whole story? I can look at her (and listen to her) and see healthy mind behind a body that has done decades of hard work. I hope that you can too someday. [1] http://www.gregcons.com/KateBlog/SurvivingIncurableCancer.aspx http://www.gregcons.com/KateBlog/SurvivingIncurableCancer.as...

wakawaka28 2y ago
>So is it not overly legislative to bind a person's health choices to their looks when you don't have the whole story? No, it is overly pedantic to argue with someone making a basic and reasonable statement that someone looks overweight and would probably do better if they lost weight. Being overweight contributes to all kinds of joint pain and diabetes (which causes a lot of other physical and even mental problems). Maybe this woman is a natural oddity that can be in peak health and also significantly overweight at an old age, but odds are against it.
- troyvit 2y ago
  Hey, champ, way to jump in with an unrelated "no, but". At the start of this thread the person chose to marginalize this speaker and what she had to say because she appears "15 years older than they should be." Then they failed to give any representation of what a 63 year old woman _should_ look like, let alone a 63 year old cancer survivor. So to avoid being pedantic I'll just call it what it is: ageism.
  - wakawaka28 2y ago
    The comment you replied to that started this whole thread was this: >The host is clearly in poor physical condition and many of their concerns are due to lack of proper nutrition , exercise and prescription meds abuse. They appear 15 years older than they should be. Their advice is primarily reactive, and the trivial proactive advice (exercise more) is delivered almost ironically. >Take care of yourself now. Drop the weight, get generous activity, get off the meds and you will feel loads better. Boy that really wreaks of ageism, let me tell you. /s Being overweight makes you look older. He didn't marginalize anyone, he said that in his opinion she didn't look very healthy and was causing her own problems. He also gave some well-meaning recommendations, possibly from experience. He doesn't owe you an example or a detailed explanation of how he came up with a general impression of "15 years older." He's probably not a doctor or one of those age-guessing performers at a carnival. I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're overweight and in denial like the woman in the video (who denies that BMI has any significance), and that's why you're flared up about this boring comment.

wakawaka28 2y ago

>So is it not overly legislative to bind a person's health choices to their looks when you don't have the whole story? No, it is overly pedantic to argue with someone making a basic and reasonable statement that someone looks overweight and would probably do better if they lost weight. Being overweight contributes to all kinds of joint pain and diabetes (which causes a lot of other physical and even mental problems). Maybe this woman is a natural oddity that can be in peak health and also significantly overweight at an old age, but odds are against it.

troyvit 2y ago
Hey, champ, way to jump in with an unrelated "no, but". At the start of this thread the person chose to marginalize this speaker and what she had to say because she appears "15 years older than they should be." Then they failed to give any representation of what a 63 year old woman _should_ look like, let alone a 63 year old cancer survivor. So to avoid being pedantic I'll just call it what it is: ageism.
- wakawaka28 2y ago
  The comment you replied to that started this whole thread was this: >The host is clearly in poor physical condition and many of their concerns are due to lack of proper nutrition , exercise and prescription meds abuse. They appear 15 years older than they should be. Their advice is primarily reactive, and the trivial proactive advice (exercise more) is delivered almost ironically. >Take care of yourself now. Drop the weight, get generous activity, get off the meds and you will feel loads better. Boy that really wreaks of ageism, let me tell you. /s Being overweight makes you look older. He didn't marginalize anyone, he said that in his opinion she didn't look very healthy and was causing her own problems. He also gave some well-meaning recommendations, possibly from experience. He doesn't owe you an example or a detailed explanation of how he came up with a general impression of "15 years older." He's probably not a doctor or one of those age-guessing performers at a carnival. I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're overweight and in denial like the woman in the video (who denies that BMI has any significance), and that's why you're flared up about this boring comment.