We're going round in circles here. It keeps coming back to this question of how and why one should lose weight. It's funny isn't it, how the prejudice is turned 180 degrees to suggest that your concern for my wellbeing and happiness fuels your comments on how I choose to live my life, and as such, is no longer recognised as a prejudice? You know what? You're still prejudiced.
Who's to say I would be happier being on a regimented diet, and a routine of exercise? Maybe I hate feeling chained to something, and prefer to eat when my body tells me I need to eat, according to my tastes, and what I 'fancy' at the time. Maybe health is about more than just statistics and calorie-defecits. Maybe it's about feeling happy. Personally, I'd rather live happy and die when it's coming to me, than live a life of servitude to an image of health, a diet, an exercise 'routine' and be miserable as a result. To me, the idea of tracking the fat and calories I take in on a daily basis is a horrible idea. Not that I'm bashing Ali's right to do it. I just know if I tried it, it would act against my happiness, not for it.
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Would you want to get to know people that are lazy and self-indulgent on a more personal level? This is the "fat" stereotype. Without catagorizing people based on their characteristics, we couldn't function in society. Every decision would be agonizingly long and presumably useless by the time the decision was finally made. It's the same reason we discriminate if someone is dressed slobbily, or has lots of piercings/tattoos. It's the image that society has constructed for you, and no matter your opinion on it, it's just something you have to live with.
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Believe it or not, not everyone stereotypes on the physical level. I'm not arguing with the fact that stereotypes truly exist, but I think you assume too much if you think the first thing I look at is weight.
I operate on the asshole stereotype. Here's how it works. Everyone I meet, I assume from the get-go that they're an asshole. They have as long as we talk for to convince me otherwise.