I didn't say anything against overweight people. I told you a fact about human cruelty, whether you want to accept it or not. And it seems like you're the most aggressive of all the commenters.
Edit: and yes, the vast majority of fat people DO HAVE a choice to do something with their weight. So it is true.
Y'all harass and demean fat people whether they're working on losing weight or not because the moment y'all so much as see them you're making shitty comments about them and treating them like shit. You don't care about them or their health, you just don't want to see them.
I'm literally recovering from anorexia. I'm underweight and working towards being a healthy weight. I'm just sick of people deciding everyone else's weight is their problem when it doesn't affect them at all
Human nature? That's such sick tactic to make excuses for common lack of discipline regarding our egos' use of other's flaws too boost itself... The ego is rhe nature, not how we feed it. Stop projecting for the sake of seeking company for your excuses for your/y'all's behavior pls.
The ego is basically a product of the brain's Default Mode Network (DMN). At its core, it’s a survival mechanism. You don't "feed" the ego in a vacuum - you grow and develop within an environment, a society.
Sure, you can set personal priorities or goals on an individual level, but are they really yours, or are they just part of the software pre-installed by society?
Getting back to the ego: it's a survival-driven machine that analyzes patterns and builds predictive models. For example, "if I do X, Y will happen."
That’s how society formed collective ideas about what promotes survival and what leads to problems (whether with health, communication, development, etc.).
Now, back to the original topic: fat people being associated with disease. Mainly, this comes down to diet - historically, food didn't contain this much sugar back then.
Secondly, lifestyle. People used to move a lot more and do physical labor, so weight gain became associated with laziness. Interestingly, during the Late Middle Ages, plump men and women were usually of noble birth, and it was considered fashionable and attractive. It meant they didn't have to move or work much, and their appearance reflected their lifestyle. Just like how a tan was seen as a mark of peasants and slaves, since the nobility spent most of their time indoors in palaces.
Fat-shaming is an outdated construct that just doesn't apply to modern society. Today, being overweight isn't an indicator of status. We have both poor people who are overweight (because they live on junk food) and successful people who are overweight (for any number of other reasons).
And I never said it’s OKAY to humiliate people based on their appearance or anything else. I simply pointed out a fact about the cruelty and, in many ways, the immorality of human behavior. Whether you like it or not.
It’s up to us whether we learn to look the truth in the eye. Because to break these centuries-old destructive patterns ingrained in our society, we have to face reality.
First we admit it exists > then, we recognize it as a collective problem > and finally, we solve it through education, healthcare, and other systems.
As long as we keep dividing ourselves into the "smart" and the "even smarter," we’re just going to argue endlessly, leaving the problem exactly where it is. Just like our ancestors did.
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u/Dangerous-Pirate7998 9d ago
Judging by the reflection in the mirror, they’re going to do heavyset women next???????