About the FA movement and what it has become, mostly I’m just puzzled by it.

What do they get even if they are allowed to win the “debate” that calories don’t matter, that there is no such thing as too obese, that everything that nearly all doctors and all credible medical studies are telling them is wrong?

All they win is Type II diabetes, putrefying limbs and an early death.* Because strangely fat acceptance nutters keep dying early — but that has nothing to do with obesity, of course! (I don’t agree with laughing at anyone’s death, but nevertheless the facts are the facts.)

Congratu-fucking-lations. Great win, there, and great thing to base a movement on. You can have that victory and I’ll do the other thing where I don’t have a terrible life and then die early and in misery.

I hope to write about this at greater length elsewhere and in a less incendiary fashion, but the FA movement (which hardly exists anywhere else), the denial of global warming, the anti-vaccination movement — all of these are connected, linked by a peculiar strain of American thought that is amplified through neo-liberalism and is present on both sides of the political aisle more here than anywhere else in the West. And that is the belief that one’s personal opinions and precious feelings trump all facts, all other views, all statistics, and the very nature of reality itself.

The FA movement is just one very sick, very pernicious aspect of this greater course of thought.

*And even if mortality were no different, what about quality of life? Seems to always be ignored. I’d rather be dead than have a life that many obese people force themselves to lead.