Fat Activists are annoying and mean

So here’s the deal, I do not disagree with NAFAA’s main ongoing missions; to end size discrimination and advocate for accommodations in public spaces for super sized people. But I cannot fully get behind this movement. Many of these people want to force men to find fat women attractive. Sure 1 in 10 men worldwide are attracted to fat women, but the rest aren’t. Men can’t help the way their brain is wired. It’s wrong. Imagine forcing a gay man to be attracted to women-they can’t because their brains are wired to find men attractive. Also HAES is a lie. A 600 lbs person is not as healthy as a 130 lbs athlete! They claim that excess weight doesn’t cause back deformities, osteoarthritis and diseases. Sure, some people at the beginning stages of obesity can be healthy but not no damn BMI 40 or more person. That’s impossible. Then there’s the bullying. They will bully former fat people for losing weight even if the weight loss was done to alleviate pain and regain mobility!!!! They bully women who call themselves “midsize” because they claim the word midsize” is fatphobic. Basically this term was created to describe a non-fat/non-skinny person basically a medium build person who’s either mildly overweight or at a normal healthy weight. Then there’s the rage they feel at major plus size outlets for not carrying extended plus sizes (32W-50W). They also claim fat women who wear sizes 12-18 are “thin adjacent” because department stores carry those sizes. Thin adjacent is a term created to indicate that these particular fat women have privileges in our society almost akin to a woman who wears sizes 00-4. They also claim doctors are “fatphobic” for refusing to operate on people with BMI’s of over 40. That’s bullshit because morbidly obese people are at elevated risk of dying in a middle of an operation. If they are lucky enough to survive their healing times are longer. Yes doctors do emergency surgery on the morbidly obese who have had heart attacks or injured in an accident, but they warn the patients families that their is a high risk of not surviving the operation. I’m also infuriated that the Body Positive movement has been hijacked by NAFAA activists who forced the movement to be centered around them. The only fat people that should be centered are the disabled ones along with disabled people of all body sizes and burn victims. All they want is special privileges and to be worshipped. They don’t care about others. And no one takes them seriously because they’re always starting drama.

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Ellen Body February 22, 2024 at 2:25 pm 3 2