No, I’m Pretty Sure Hating You Is In Your Best Interests…

Oh, Hell. They’re back. It seems as though Fatties are trying for citizenship again and the Blow Back is lining up and raring to go to remind the world why Hating Fat People Is a Constitutional Right and a Moral Obligation.

‘Fat Pride’ Is The New Battleground In America’s Culture War (msn.com)

I love this line from weight-concerned citizen who feels his “main goal in life is to love people but there are boundaries to that.”

Holy Shit Scooter. Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin, why don’t ya.

Which is it. You don’t hate fat people, just everything they do and say? Everything you know they do and don’t do… You clearly assume all Fat People are Food Addicts who make poor choices, never exercise, are tied hand and foot to disease and therefore deserving of your contempt.

By that reasoning, you can hate lung cancer ridden smokers, alcoholics in late-stage liver failure, sun worshipers who have tanned themselves into melanoma, Type-A people coronary patients, injured athletes who over utilize health care in ERs…

It will be quite an exhaustive list if we are playing the “I’m gonna hate you for what you're doing to yourself.” dance. It’s first cousins with, “I’m gonna hate you into loving yourself to change for me.” Yes, that is a Country Song.

Oh, Chad, thank you so much. Give me a warm, gooshy feeling inside. Sorry, that's all the lard around my mid-section.

‘Fat Pride’ Is The New Battleground In America’s Culture War (msn.com)

The article does the usual correlation is causation bit. Nudges up to ‘fat people are human but’ and falls back into the self-serving, othering tropes of, “if they weren’t__, if they didn’t_, since they do, and is it any wonder-isms?”

There is always a side trip, not remotely out of the way, to my insurance rates and then health care costs before ending with the kick in the teeth of AMERICA can only be Harmed by engaging in any degree of Fat Acceptance.

And so it goes, and then it’s gone in a sea of assumption.

Yes, fat floats, but it can’t tread water that’s like acid, eating away at the body, heart and soul of fat people so thin people can maintain their superior status, never question their questionable assumptions.

Just a nice cozy little no, we’re gonna keep on hating you cause it’s for your own good! All hail, we can keep them Fatties at arms-length, as well as keep the faith that thinness equals health and moral superiority because thinness, like fatness doesn’t just happen.

Same old same old. It never really comes up. I think the concept of Fat Acceptance might just be brought up for the sake of those who want an excuse to double down and beat the dead, fat horse into mush.

“States looking at it.”

Actually, they’ve looked at it before. Michigan had non-discrimination Fat People since 1976. It went in with Age and Height. Now Look at them! All of them tall, fat, octogenarians. Blasphemy. It’s all over now.

Weight discrimination and Michigan law | Sterling Employment Law (sterlingattorneys.com)

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I’m having fun looking up other isms and trying to find the reasoned rebuttal to the others. Racism, sexism and homophobia are alive and ill, but there doesn’t seem to be a real concerted effort in the mainstream to maintain the other biases.

There are two ways of looking at sexism, homophobia, racism, etc. But you really lay yourself open to being called a bully and a bigot to share them. Maybe if they could convince people that they are hating others for their own good they would get a by?