Here is an article which is full of fail, brought to you by the Denver Post. The author cites every stereotype from the U.S. being a nation of "the increasingly fat" to the way that the overweight or obese (being everyone with a BMI over 25) cost everyone else butt tons of money just by existing in their fat bodies. To such people it doesn't matter if a person is slim because he or she is naturally made that way, or because he or she exercises a lot, or because he or she is starving themselves and/or supplementing their diet with plenty of heroin and cocaine. Just so long as no-one has an ounce of adipose tissue on their body, it's all good!
My thoughts about the stigma of being a big person in a thinness-obsessed society and about health at every size and my ongoing struggle with disordered eating and low self-esteem.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
When You Can't Write, Stereotype
Labels:
bad articles,
bad medicine,
size prejudice,
stereotypes,
stigma
1 comment:
Thoughtful commentary is welcome. If you are simply a douchebag who wants to spew about how ugly and/or lazy you think fat people are, go drown your worthless ass in a vat of fry grease. Likewise, if you have been brainwashed by the MULTI BILLION DOLLAR diet/weight loss industry and want to preach about what a godsend whatever program your on is, please do so on your own blog. I do not appreciate religious proselytizing, and I do not like proselytizing for The Church of Thinness either. Thanks!
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If people have enough energy and time for fat-hating, then things must be going really well for us humans.
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