More skinny-shaming of sorts. Not hard to find these days.
Someone who is completely normal-looking is now seen as an “unhealthy body image.”
I’ve dated a half-dozen women who’ve had very similar bodies to the woman on the bag. That woman is probably, what, about 5’3″ and 120 pounds or so? (Hard to tell exactly without scale, but can judge roughly by limb length vs. head size, etc.) That would put her with a BMI of ~21. Which is completely in the normal range and what everyone should strive for. (A BMI in or near the normal range, not a BMI of 21.)
If all the effort spent spewing ignorant shit were spent losing weight, these people who hate anyone who’ve not failed as hard as they have would be a whole lot healthier.
Damn I hate those idiots.
What’s weird is someone can believe something completely ridiculous like this but I bet she has something like ‘Won’t date any man under 6’2″‘ in her OKCupid profile and will vituperatively and offendedly tell you that’s “different.”
But it’s much, much easier to change your weight than it is to change your height.
I just can’t leave those fuckwits alone because more than just about any other group in America — even including the Tea Partiers/climate change deniers — they embody the early-apocalypse American self-delusional mindset.
… more than just about any other group in America — even including the Tea Partiers/climate change deniers — they embody the early-apocalypse American self-delusional mindset.
Ok, I’ll bite. Why (aside from your pun)?
Now that I think about it, this award might actually go to the anti-vaxxers because there is much more evidence for the effectiveness of vaccines than for the harm of obesity.
But it’s more than that — the FA movement has moved from “perhaps we shouldn’t shame fat people” which I completely agree with to largely denying that even morbid obesity is in any way harmful, and insisting that people should be attracted to them despite demanding perfection in their partners. All this despite the fact that what everyone is attracted to is highly individual and just can’t be decided by fat fiat.
But why do they encompass so much of what is wrong with America? Complete ignorance of evidence, insisting that their understanding (that is, what they wish to believe) trumps science because it makes them feel better and then denigrating and attempting to destroy anyone who hurts their self-esteem (by, for example, merely actually being fit or healthy or wearing something actually cute).
The FA movement is except perhaps the anti-vaxxers what makes living in the US so unpleasant so much of the time.
Honestly if emigrating were easier, we’d have done it already. We still might as I’ve pointed out before just because something is difficult or uncomfortable doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing.