Fat Acceptance

mjhedgehog

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AmyParker979

In regards to health care costs and insurance - I'm in insurance *and* I'm uninsurable for most life insurance so I see both sides.

This is not meant to be offensive, but the fact that you are uninsurable should tell you something. Even smokers who skydive 50x a day are insurable. Life insurance companies will underwrite ANYTHING they think they can make a profit on.

Actually - that was VERY offensive. I AM trying to do something about it, that's why I'm here. Maybe I should have phrased it that I am uninsurable at a decent rate. And, as a matter of fact, not all smokers or sky divers are insurable - depending on the writer. I only write with A rated companies, not those that are likely to fail in the next year or so.

jerber160

[The only acceptance that I have come to with my weight is that I did this to myself and only I CAN fix it.]

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that's an interesting thought....having been the fat kid all my life, shopping in the 'husky' department at penneys, i don't think i had any say in the matter. I don't blame anyone, maybe I should,, but I don't. it's just the way things were.

Bennettjade

A person is more than their weight. They have thoughts, feelings, desires, and emotions just like a skinny person. To me, "fat acceptance" isn't saying being fat is healthy, or ideal, or idolized. Its accepting that the adjective "fat" isn't the sole defining characteristic of a person. Fat people deal with a lot of assumptions made about them - they're lazy, dumb, slow, low-class. You see a person, and judge them immediately, simply because of their weight. That is unfair, and dehumanizing. We all have an inner life that lives on regardless of how our exterior appears.

Fat people know they're fat. They're not blind. To me, fat acceptance is recognizing the person within the person, and treating them with the same humanity we should treat all others. Be kind, as everyone is carrying within them a struggle.

Well said!

aoikirin

If you come to Denmark they just make unhealthy food crazily expensive instead...

total opposite in the U.S

Yep.. Dollar Menu, anyone??

LOL yeah. I'm hesitant to fully place the blame on fast food though. People do make choices.

It's also on foods with a more than 2.5% saturated fat content extra tax is placed.

Do you have any fat people over there??

We need to do this in the U.S. We wouldn't need "Obama Care" if we took care of ourselves.

I don't know about Denmark, but unhealthy food is just as expensive if not moreso than healthier alternatives in Norway and in several stays there I've only seen a handful of people obese or even overweight. It's a startling contrast to here in the UK even.

Meat is subsidized in the US. It is a huge industry. Meat in Europe is quite expensive due to the lack of subsidy.

Pebble321

I think there is a difference between accepting "fat (choose your preferred term if you don't like "fat") people and saying that it is healthy to be very overweight. I'm finding this hard to express, so maybe I'll give an example of two scenarios.

If I had a job going for a receptionist in my office, I'd want the right person for the job. I don't care if the person who applies is fat, thin, brown, white, purple, moustachioed, red haired, has a large bum etc. I want the right person for the job who can communicate well with the people who walk throug the door and call in on the phone.
In this situation, it would be absolutely wrong to discriminate based on size (or gender, or sexuality, or race, or disability etc).

If I was a doctor and had someone walk through my door and ask me "doc, I'm worried that I'm not very healthy, I want to be able to run around and play with my kids, and I don't want to die an early death of a heart attack like my father. What can I do?", then weight is definitely a factor that I would want to discuss. This is discrimination, this is care.
In this situation I would be negligent if I didn't take weight into consideration, along with a whole lot of other factors.

So, I think my point is that you can accept people (we are all different) but not condone being unhealthy (OK, OK, I know not all fat people are unhealthy, but I'm talking about the majority of people like me who are much healthier at a lighter weight).
I think the same thing about smoking - I can accept it without condoning it.

StarkLark

So first we had this:

So I have ready plenty of the posts on this thread, and most of you people are even more disgusting that the "fat" people you hate so much.

And then we had this:

They are already on this site to change their lives, so maybe we need to stop calling people "fat" and "disgusting" and instead, support them in their weight loss journey.

So to summarize your well-thought out post... most people in this thread are disgusting, and maybe we need to stop calling people disgusting. Thanks for that Aaron257.