Am I the only one on TSR who still thinks fat shaming is bad?

I'm all for freedom of choice.

You want to have cheeseburgers or cake for breakfast, you go for it. It's your choice.

I don't find obese or fat people attractive though, so their beauty and attractiveness is defined for me.

And I don't think people should be harassing or shaming other people because of their choices/habits.

tl;dr, don't verbally abuse people about something that is none of your business

This. Why would anyone feel the need to lose weight if it's sociably acceptable to eat yourself to death at the ripe old age of 30?

People constantly compare obesity to smoking and drug addictions, which is why we shouldn't 'allow' people to be obese by asking people to accept that their beauty isn't defined by their size.

Obese people are constantly harassed, and called 'lazy' and 'worthless' because they can't lose the weight, but what people forget is that obesity is often a result of a food addiction - although food isn't physiologically addicting, it is psychologically, which is a fair amount of the reason why people can't give up smoking or drugs - it's an emotional crutch. So when you call someone lazy and not worth loving because they eat too much and exercise too little, all you're doing is feeding their hunger, as a large majority of people find comfort in food.

Also, despite the vehement defence that "we don't encourage smoking, so why should we 'encourage' obesity", equally, we don't walk up to people in the street who are smoking, and call them lazy and a drain on everyone else's resources, or tell them that they're killing children in Africa because they're not donating the money spent on cigarettes to charity, and we don't tell them they're not worth loving because of their nicotine addiction. If we don't do that to people who smoke, what makes you think obese people deserve it?

If you don't know someone, you have no idea of the situation behind their obesity - it may be due to grief, depression, a medical disorder, too little time to exercise or eat properly or simply a bad education on healthy eating.

So surely a better way to deal with the obesity crisis is to educate parents and children, adults and teachers to eat healthily and exercise regularly, and motivate people to help them lose weight through encouragement, rather than telling them that their worth is inversely proportional to the size of their body cells!

tl;dr, don't verbally abuse people about something that is none of your business

This. Why would anyone feel the need to lose weight if it's sociably acceptable to eat yourself to death at the ripe old age of 30?

"Fat shamers" tend to base their moral position (ie believing that they are benefitting society by pointing out the blinking obvious) on the assumption that all obesity is caused by over-eating. There are myriad medical and circumstantial factors that can cause obesity, not least of which Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, which affects around 5 per cent of women in the UK.

For those whose obesity is caused by overeating, it is worth noting that "binge eating disorder" was last year acknowledged by B-eat, the UK's largest eating disorder charity, as a bona fide mental illness. Binge eaters have an addiction to food and deserve to be treated with the same compassion we offer to people suffering from anorexia or bulimia.

I agree. They should stop eating so many genetics.

People constantly compare obesity to smoking and drug addictions, which is why we shouldn't 'allow' people to be obese by asking people to accept that their beauty isn't defined by their size.

Obese people are constantly harassed, and called 'lazy' and 'worthless' because they can't lose the weight, but what people forget is that obesity is often a result of a food addiction - although food isn't physiologically addicting, it is psychologically, which is a fair amount of the reason why people can't give up smoking or drugs - it's an emotional crutch. So when you call someone lazy and not worth loving because they eat too much and exercise too little, all you're doing is feeding their hunger, as a large majority of people find comfort in food.

Also, despite the vehement defence that "we don't encourage smoking, so why should we 'encourage' obesity", equally, we don't walk up to people in the street who are smoking, and call them lazy and a drain on everyone else's resources, or tell them that they're killing children in Africa because they're not donating the money spent on cigarettes to charity, and we don't tell them they're not worth loving because of their nicotine addiction. If we don't do that to people who smoke, what makes you think obese people deserve it?

If you don't know someone, you have no idea of the situation behind their obesity - it may be due to grief, depression, a medical disorder, too little time to exercise or eat properly or simply a bad education on healthy eating.

So surely a better way to deal with the obesity crisis is to educate parents and children, adults and teachers to eat healthily and exercise regularly, and motivate people to help them lose weight through encouragement, rather than telling them that their worth is inversely proportional to the size of their body cells!

tl;dr, don't verbally abuse people about something that is none of your business

Stop bullying her, real women have curves. hnnnnnnnnnnnng

Lol don't hate me because I'm beautiful

Nice to see mean spiritedness is still alive and well, based on some of the responses on this thread. Obviously I don't condone obesity, and I know it is something that should be tackled, but this "shaming" is completely unnecessary. For a lot of overweight people, food becomes an addiction, much like alcohol, drugs or cigarettes are an addiction. People who come out with the ridiculous statements like "eat less and exercise more, it's as easy as that" clearly don't understand the issue. If it was that easy, then obesity wouldn't exist, in the same way that if you said to a drug addict "don't take drugs, it's as easy as that" or, "don't drink alcohol, it's as easy as that" to an alcoholic. But those aren't the reactions, if someone is an alcoholic or a drug addict, there is a wealth of support available to them, whereas for people addicted to food, this isn't available, instead they have to withstand ridicule from complete strangers through this "shaming" bulls**t. Maybe next time, before you hurl abuse at someone because of their weight, take a look at yourself, I'm sure you have some flaws too.

Have you actually ever seen fat shaming in the street?

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