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Originally Posted by skier
Whether or not you have made a decision to be obese (this so-called "choice" to be fat) the fact remains that our society currently supports a thinner norm.
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Well, that's debatable given that obesity is on the increase. There might come a day where the obese outnumber everyone else. Then what's the norm?
Where did this 'norm' come from anyway?
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Originally Posted by skier
When I see a very obese person, I see someone that has failed to take care of their body.
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That's a bit simplistic. Some people try and fail to lose weight, they battle it all their life. Some people eat too much for compensate for psychological scars. Some people just like food. Some people just eat junk. Thing is, you can't look at an obese person and say 'you fucked up your body', because it may not be that simple. Plus that kind of superior attitude only ever rubs me up the wrong way.
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Originally Posted by skier
I don't understand people's sympathies for something that shortens your life span and makes it hard to do physical activity.
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To a point, I agree. To get morbidly obese is, for me, something qiute unacceptable. But I'm happy the way I am, and I suspect that may be too fat for you. I eat what I eat and the way I eat because I like it. For the same reason, I smoke pot daily and listen to loud music that may fuck up my hearing.
That's the way I live my life. I believe in taking my pleasures wherever I find them, and that means in the here and now. Nobody is promised tomorrow. There are so many ways I could walk out my front door in five seconds and be a smear on the pavement a minute later, so trying to guarantee myself extra years by denying myself the things I want... seems stupid.