Fat shaming is not about health and it’s total bullshit.
1. You don’t care about random strangers or acquaintances health. If you did, you’d remind them to go to the doctor or to take their vitamin every day.
2. You can’t always tell somebodies health by looking at them. Even if someone is clearly very overweight, they could have a condition. If someone is skinny, they could still be unhealthy. You don’t know.
3. Nobody deserves to be miserable and hate themselves because of some bad health choices. Everybody does stuff that’s probably not great for them. Smokers, drinkers, tanning bed users, even people who take Tylenol too often, are doing something unhealthy. But nobody goes up to smokers on the street or sees someone online whose a smoker, and comments that they’re disgusting and gross and need to quit smoking. Nobody makes smokers feel like they should hate themselves and be miserable. So if this whole thing was really about health and not just hating fat, then you would treat everyone who you think is unhealthy the same way. But you don’t.
Nobody deserves to feel horrible and disgusting because of unhealthy choices. Also, it’s nobody’s damn business what you do with your body. It’s completely about hating fat and it’s not about health at all. Don’t for one second let anybody convince you that it’s about health.
