Rusty_Gunn: I'm overweight myself and I find this "fat pride" (that many SJW's seem to have) to be a VERY dangerous mindset to have
same here...
on the strict medical point of view, and on the longer term you can consider, it IS dangerous
not only it is a source of serious health problems (and even potentially lethal ones), it is also an aggravating factor for many unrelated problems many people can have in the course of their lives...
I am crippled/handiccaped person. this did NOT come from my weight (i was living a rather normal and happy overweighted life before it*), my handiccap is barely visible at first glance but very hindering and very limitating on every aspect of daily life (even in the practice of sedentary hobbies like "tv with family" or "playing video games")
from what i could read in state study on the handicap in my country at least, it is that 2/3rd of handicaped person (handicap that fits into the legal definition of it in our laws) have a non spottable yet true handicap...
as such i still am shunned, despised and harassed by "obvious" handicaped persons (most often they dont do that willingly or knowingly) AND by valid persons as well, and of course vocal sjw who claim to defend handicaped persons too
my handicap is not related to my weight YET was both aggravated by it AND prevented from normally healing/recovering because of it
My handicap can, statistically, fall upon 50% of 50 years old and above person (i am just a decade earlier than the average due to genetic/hereditary grounds)
so i am in very good position to tell you the "actual" pro fat nonsense IS dangerous
i never asked about this completely hyppocrit and BS nonsense; i admit though that in the couple late decade, i would have gladly liked just a "non anti-fat" constent harassement and bullying in daily life.
to every stupid person who ever bullyed someone, despised someone, hated someone, harassed someone on the only base reason of fatness, i want to say: you can potentially get fat at anytime, odds rising with age, with some genetic grounds, with weight unrelated diseases you could have that would involve cortisone treatment
so this "fat pride" is completely nonsense... people who are fat are not always like that by choice or lack of willpower, they struggle very hard to live with their status in an hostile world on daily basis for mundane problems; sometimes they can't have solution to leave their state even if they want to (genetic ground, side disease with cortisone treatment, side disease like crone syndrom or physical disability that prevent them from using the classic method of "eat healthy, do sport" to loose weight)
all that fat people ask and require is not encouraging their falling down, nor do they want being pushed further into their problem, nor do they want bunch of hispter trying to mimic them or pretend they defend them
fat people are already on a daily struggle you are mostly clueless about (finding clothes, cinema/bus seats, and the like), thank you, they have already enough bs to cope with. what they just want is that stupid superficial hollow headed folk give them a break and stop despising them, harrassing them and pissing them off, thanx. that would be a good start
(sorry for long rant, i just discovered this sjw pro-fatpride thing because of the quoted message and tried to read things about it and was horrified...)
*(i mean happy life even despite the complete arsehole behavior of most of the average "civilized, tolerant and high morale standard" bunch of people in my near daily vicinity)
i know chubby/overweighted persons who still are "pretty" and attractive, not because of them being fat, but despite of it... it may be just the face, or the posture and the way they are, the way they elegantly dress themselves, the fact that they are complete sweetheart persons to the point it shines outwards them completely, or a combination of all that. they are not beautiful because they are fat and fat=beauty as decided in an arbitrary way... they just are pretty because they are better persons than the average crowd, based on their behavior. and i know "magazine-like looking persons" who should be considered hot by nowadays standards but whom inner uglyness is so blatant, or who neglect themselves so much because they think nature gift will do most of the work, that they are instant turn off...