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RACE is defined as: A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by common physical characteristics.
That’s right. I am proposing that Fat people have become a new race. A race that transcends skin color and creed.
The Obesity “problem” has somehow managed to allow people with a pudgy disposition to categorize themselves into this new race. They have now brought it upon themselves to be subject to ALL of the problems that go along with being a part of a race. Things like discrimination, prejudice, and bigotry. Fat people insist on pointing out that they are discriminated against, and they also demand sympathy for being victims. The STRANGE part to me is that even though they fall victim to, and complain about being judged in much the same way a stereotypical minority would, there underlies a fundamental difference between the two types of people: One chose to be that way, and one did not.
Now you may ask, how can I say that they brought it upon themselves, when the very nature of a prejudice is that of being judged unfairly by someone else? Well, i’ll tell you why: When you are being prejudice against someone of a certain race, you are judging them based on how they look. Right? But if you’re black or white, or whatever, you can’t help the color of your skin. You are born with it. You are born into a certain race. You have no choice. If you’ve been discriminated against your whole life, you can’t get tired of it and change races. Even if you tried really really really hard.
One cannot be born into the Fat race. One has to “grow” into it. As I’ve said before, you are not born weighing 400 pounds. I’m saying the difference here is that people CAN help from becoming a member of this elite club. And if they become fat, and don’t like how they are treated, THEY CAN STOP BEING FAT!!!
People of a certain skin color have good reason to be upset when people make premature judgements about them, because if they are not true, that person has to work extra hard to prove themselves worthy of the respect they deserve. That person did not decide to be a part of that race. You can’t stop being black!
For fat people, they became what they are because of very specific decisions that they made at many many points in their life. Every time they pulled up to the drive-through window at a Krispy Kreme, they made a decision. Every time they took the elevator up one floor when the door to the stairs was 10 feet away, they made a decision. Every time they got the double cheeseburger instead of the single, they made a decision. These people have chosen to be fat. Even if they don’t like being fat, they did choose to be fat. I don’t care how retarded a fat person you bring me, if I showed them a salad and a tub of ice cream and asked them which was healthier, they would answer correctly.
What does all this really mean? It means that in reality, fat people are not being judged simply because the are fat. They are being judged based on the choices they have made. Anyone, in any situation in life is judged based on the choices that they make. When someone chooses to treat their body in such a poor manner that it makes them uncomfortable, unsightly, more likely to have diabetes, high cholesterol, cancer, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, heart disease…. (you get the point), a person of good health looks at that person and wonders why they would do that to themselves. And at that point, they judge them.
Let me be clear. I’m not trying to say that when a tubby is being made fun of because of their size, that they should feel like they have to lose weight simply for that reason. My point is that you’re a hypocrite if you bitch and complain about how you are constantly stared at or made fun of, and yet claim that you can do nothing about it. That it is out of your hands. That you are the way you are, and people had just better accept you for it, and get over it. The very nature of getting upset implies that it’s because of something that you can do nothing about, or that it is too late. But the thing is, you can. You made the choice to become that way, now make the choice to become a healthier person.
Being fat is a choice. It’s an expensive choice to make because the rest of us taxpayers have to cough up the bucks required by the healthcare system on behalf of those who choose to exercise no self-restraint and/or refuse to get the counseling for the root causes that are the foundation for their misguided, escapist choices.
I don’t think people intentionally get fat. I got a bit overweight due to a change in circumstances. I left my husband, was fired from my job, needed to share a house, didn’t feel comfortable exercising where I lived and had a new bf that loved to take me to restaurants.
I only gained so much weight and then stopped gaining. I maintained that weight without effort. I didn’t become more than 15 pounds overweight as defined by BMI. Granted, I only ate as much as I was hungry for but I did very little activity. Not all people that have bad habits become obese.
I’m now at normal BMI since I started exercising again and cut the most of junk food out of diet. I want to lose about 13 more pounds to get down to my weight before I left my abusive husband. It’s no effort to eat less crap and I love exercising. After I read your amusing blog, I’m going to do my exercise for the day.
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If people are complaining about “discrimination” about being fat in society, then why do they become fat if it’s a miserable existence? Don’t you think if fatties could do something about it, they would?
This is why I disagree with your arguments. Stop paying attention to fat people LIES. We choose to get fat because the results are GOOD – not bad. We get attention. That’s all we want. Bigotry my ass. I’ve never had so many loving friends in my whole life once I woke up and made the decision to be fat too!
Becoming fat IS a conscience decision and is planned well in advance. I even marked my calendar on the day to begin eating twinkies and big macs with supersized fries.
The only people that I see abusing the “victim cards” are the FAT-O-PHOBICS. They are the ones always whining. Fat people don’t have to worry about anything. Any fattie here will surely agree with me. Fat people stay fat because of all the attention (even negative) that you give us.
[...] Are you asking me to celebrate that people are fat? You are over-simplifying fat people as simply having an appearance that is different than other people. It is much more complex than that, and I use this blog as a way to discuss those complexities. If you are implying that being fat or skinny is the same as being black or white, then read my post: FAT is the new Black! [...]
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no no no no nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo jst dont go mcdonalds lad
im fat yyo,i weigh 268 pounds and i cant move off the bednna die just the like the of us fatties and soon.i go burger king daily on the back of a flatbed truck.
I agree that 8 out of 10 people who are fat choose to be. However there are the 2 of us out of that 10 who have never once strayed off the health track, exercised religiously and still kept gaining weight due to one of the most hidden disease’s that doctors unfortunately ignore till it is too late, and that is hypothyroidism.
I myself used to feel as you do about fat people, and in all honesty even though I am considered obese I still feel the same way about those who make bad choices and bring it upon themselves. Sad part of it all is that with obesity or fat most people judge before they ask, ‘How did you get this big?’. I would gladly answer it with no hesitation and I would not feel belittled, My response would be simply, ‘Because none of the so called doctor’s wanted to believe me when I said something was wrong till I was near death, obese, hair falling out, then and only then did they even think to check my thyroid, and that is why I am fat.’
With that said I will add that with the help of the medication I am on, I am back on the track of taking myself out of the race of fatty’s and back into the world of the norm.
I want you to know I am not knocking your site, I actually read it daily and find it amusing and very to the point truthful, but I did want to speak up for those of us out there who are fat that didn’t ask to be this way and certainly did not abuse the drive through to get here.
Keep up the great work!
Peace be with you!
Nobody choosed to be fat. That’s absurd.
Just because a person makes choices you don’t like doesn’t make it okay to not treat that person with dignity and respect, so long as those choices are not infringing on the rights and freedoms of others. Let’s set aside race. People choose, for example, to be Catholic. Does that mean it’s okay to treat all Catholics like shit? If Catholics want to be treated like human beings, they can just leave the Catholic Church. Or let’s consider homosexuality. Now being sexually attracted to members of the same sex is not a choice, but acting on those feelings and having gay sex is a choice. So is it okay to be a homophobe, so long as you are tolerant of gays who are celibate?
This is where the bigots come back with, “But I pay higher health-insurance premiums because of all these fatties getting diabetes and having heart attacks!” An obese person, on average, will be more prone to disease and rack up higher health-care bills in middle age than an active, healthy person. But that obese person will, on average, die younger than the healthy, active person, who will continue racking up medical bills in old age, not to mention living off Social Security for decades after retiring and ceasing to be a productive member of society. It’s just a convenient myth so bigots can feel justified being assholes and busybodies can feel justified trying to run other people’s lives.