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Give noticed that overweight people seem to get treated like they are worthless and unhuman, by (usually the superficial types) skinny people.
Is this like some unwritten right? should one just suck it up and let it go?
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Answer 1:
Definitely not a right, any more than calling a Black person a “n*****” is acceptable behavior. (I starred that out myself, in case you’re wondering — Yahoo didn’t do it.) Weight-based bigotry is still bigotry, and still despicable.
And no, you should not “suck it up and let it go.” That’s what a lot of Germans did in the late 1930s, when the Nazis were ascending into power — and look where that got those who remained quiet. Those who say nothing when evil deeds are done are, at best, missing an opportunity to do good. At worst, they are complicit in that evil.
Especially if you’re talking about women, the stick-figure “ideal” that society currently has is grotesque. Real women aren’t shaped like sticks — they get that way by starving themselves, or, worse, binging and purging. If a person’s weight is high enough that is creates legitimate medical risk, then they need help from a doctor, not torment from society.
Personally, I find stick-women unattractive. I’m not a “fat-fetishist,” either — I simply think women should look like women, curves and all. When I think of all the harm, to females of all ages, that’s been done by pressure to look like a “supermodel,” it absolutely makes me sick. Those who torment those who struggle with weight issues deserve to be launched into space. With air, food, and water, of course — I’m not trying to be cruel and KILL them, after all — just get them away from the rest of us. Giving them their own colony in the warmest part of Antarctica would work just as well, and cost less, to boot.