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• disgrunty@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Okay and how do you know if you’re bullying one of the bad lazy fatties and not someone with, for example, PCOS or thyroid problems? You think those people don’t have enough trouble without shallow shitheads harassing them for existing?

  Basic human decency should not come with a weight limit.

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  • UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    These are a smaalll portion. The overwhelming majority is just normal obese

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    • disgrunty@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Again: basic human decency should not come with a weight limit.

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      • UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        If these kinds of people, like they often do, complain about earth being unsuitable for obesity then that is what annoys me

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• halvar@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well I agree with around half of what you’ve just said. Being obese isn’t healthy and everyone who is obese should know that. When people use body positivity to justify the fact that they don’t care about their health they are obviously wrong. What body positivity is about is that people have the right to make decisions over their own bodies and other people should respect that and be emphatetic. Bullying people isn’t being empathetic. I, who normally doesn’t like to use the body shaming arguement felt compelled to write my comment, because I felt that where this post came from also lacked said empathy.

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  • UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It just annoys me when people who are obese as a result of their own unhealthy habits blame the world for being unsuitable for obese people. And many people are like this

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    • halvar@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I know where you’re coming from, but in general “the world being unsuitable” is people lacking empathy and/or bullying people for being overweight. At least that’s what I mostly hear about, overweight people complaining about social pressure.

      And sure there are a lot of overweight people who for some reason feel compelled to constantly rationalize their life choices to people who didn’t ask, but then again if this is the problem so are there a lot of other people from every other group that people regularly critique that do the same.

      But with that being said I think we should point out that as there are few other “groups” one could join voluntarily and the “affiliation” with which is so immediately recognizable to anyone just by looking at you, that I do think overweight people receive a disproportional amount of critique compared to for example smokers. Statistically speaking smoking is more unhealthy and globally it’s even more prevalent than eating unhealthy, but when was the last time you heard someone was getting bullied for lighting a cigarette?

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      • UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        No I don’t hate specific people. I hate pretty much everyone. Including smokers lol

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