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Is fat shaming acceptable?

considering that fat people have enough on their plates as it is???
Give them a break, give them a piece of your KitKat bar

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Original post by Wolfram Alpha
considering that fat people have enough on their plates as it is???
Give them a break, give them a piece of your KitKat bar


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Original post by Wolfram Alpha
considering that fat people have enough on their plates as it is???
Give them a break, give them a piece of your KitKat bar


is this sarcasm?
You just wanted to make a joke, didn't you?
Reply 4
It is their own fault they are fat. It isn't "nice" to shame anybody and their weight but you cannot glamorise obesity. It is wrong and no these people are not "beautiful" and this isn't a great message to send to young people.
Yes, fat shaming is acceptable, if you don't make them aware of their faults, how will they fix it?
Reply 6
yep
lmao
It's wrong but I'm not against it as fat people think it's perfectly fine to shame people who look slim
Reply 8
brilliant responses guys. fat shame a fat person let them get depressed miserable and possibly commit suicide.
If skinny-shaming is acceptable, then why not? *shrug*
Reply 10
"Enough on their plate" :rofl3:
Obesity shouldn't be encouraged, but it shouldn't be shamed, either. Given the solid, self-perpetuating link between obesity and low self-esteem, shaming does nobody any good.
Original post by Pedaly7
brilliant responses guys. fat shame a fat person let them get depressed miserable and possibly commit suicide.


Or, fat shame a person, they alter their diet and begin to exercise, and so less likely to suffer from diabetes, CHD, depression etc
No, being fat doesn't make you any less of a person.

Your weight shouldn't determine the amount of respect you get.
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Reply 14
Original post by Wolfram Alpha
Or, fat shame a person, they alter their diet and begin to exercise, and so less likely to suffer from diabetes, CHD, depression etc


are you willing to risk the darker option occuring??
Original post by Wolfram Alpha
Or, fat shame a person, they alter their diet and begin to exercise, and so less likely to suffer from diabetes, CHD, depression etc


This posts shows you don't know the first thing about how you effectively treat people for a chronic disease like obesity.
Original post by wretch12
It is their own fault they are fat. It isn't "nice" to shame anybody and their weight but you cannot glamorise obesity. It is wrong and no these people are not "beautiful" and this isn't a great message to send to young people.


This is going to sound goopy, but on some level, everyone's beautiful. To say that someone isn't beautiful full stop simply because they're not conventionally, physically beautiful seems like a pointless impugnment of their self-worth.
Original post by Reality Check
This posts shows you don't know the first thing about how you effectively treat people for a chronic disease like obesity.


Or, to some extent, how to treat people in general. You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Original post by Pedaly7
are you willing to risk the darker option occuring??


I think it's quite subjective. Responses will differ and it just depends on the circumstances and personality of the person involved so one cannot make an objective decision about whether it's okay or not to fat shame
Original post by Reality Check
This posts shows you don't know the first thing about how you effectively treat people for a chronic disease like obesity.


Obesity is not a chronic disease - if it were it would have been rampant in Edwardian times - it is a modern epidemic caused by sloth and fast food. Very few people have a metabolic disorder ( as they like to put it)

If you look at fat people they are on the whole thin people trapped in a fat body. This nonsense for calling them bariatric just papers over the cracks.

I accept that they need help to lose weight, but society as a whole is too tolerant.

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