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@ Girl.
I have no problem with people being overweight, but I do have a problem with people being "OK" with that "lifestyle".
Like I said in my previous post, I'd really like to hear one benefit, one plus, one upside to being overweight. Just one little pro to outweigh an overwhelming amount of cons.
Children don't deserve to be burdened by being fat, they deserve a healthy upbringing, and to be fat is to be unhealthy, no two ways around it.
And you saying that you're predisposed to being overweight is not something I buy. If you really wanted to change, you could.
I don't care what people wear, or how fat they are. But I do care when they try and make that lifestyle acceptable, and when they allow their kids to weigh more then I do, at 23, when they are 12.
You also say:
"Why shouldn't I feel confident and good about myself. Should I have to live each day in disgust for myself, reminding myself how disgusting society finds me? You talk about long term health effects of being overweight, but you are not thinking about the long term mental health effects that you are instilling and encouraging by having such an ignorant attitude."
Why shouldn't you remind yourself? As I've said before, there is nothing good about being overweight, and putting a kid through that when they really have no choice is even worse. If you screw their diet from day one, and don't help instill an active lifestyle, you're just setting them up for a shit life later on.
People that are on the thin side are more socially acceptable, it's nothing against people that are overweight, its just the way it is. People prefer to be healthy, have toned bodies, and not be fat. It's not the nicest thing to say, but its the truth. People that are overweight are the polar opposite of what society values aesthetically in individuals. So it seems odd to me that any parent would want their kid to be fat, or not act to prevent such a thing.
I'm kinda rambling and such here, but all I'm trying to say is that kid deserves a better shot at life, and unless she starts now, she is just setting herself up for failure. I don't really care how non-PC it is to say this, but the truth of the matter is simple. If you are fat, you will have a much harder go at all things social then someone that is not. You will have more health problems then someone that is not. This list goes on and on for some time. The bottom line, the bikini isn't the issue in the original post, its the weight the parent should be worried about.
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