Fat Acceptance

[Chris_H_2]

When did scientific knowledge become the enemy?

i'm sure it pre-dates the whole catholic church/Galileo heresy hoopla

[Ello Sailor]

When did scientific knowledge become the enemy?

[spike]

When did scientific knowledge become the enemy?

When people had to start wearing masks.

[tree_]

I just watched a Vice show about Chris Farley. Man, he was really sensitive about his weight. Interesting dichotomy between trying to please his audience with "fat guy fall down, people happy", and "I wish people liked me for me, but they don't, so I'm going to go do a bunch of drugs to feel better"

[dad]

I just watched a Vice show about Chris Farley. Man, he was really sensitive about his weight. Interesting dichotomy between trying to please his audience with "fat guy fall down, people happy", and "I wish people liked me for me, but they don't, so I'm going to go do a bunch of drugs to feel better"

[Ello Sailor]

[blueviper]

So much for 2023 starting off on an optimistic note.

[JuanHamm]

Oh no, one idiot on Twitter has a dumb opinion

[Jorge]

Also that tweet is from three years ago

[Ello Sailor]

So it's no longer anti black? Thank heavens.

[knee tunes]

being fat and unhealthy are like being fat and having brown hair

yes they can occur together, but it's never true (hence my "mutually exclusive") that they inherently cause each other, by definition; and that's what fat acceptance is about

you can be fat, you can be thin, you can have brown, black, blonde or blue hair, be 7 feet or two feet tall, but it's never true that any of these things *are the inherent cause* of ill health as a whole *or* that they will necessarily appear together

That is not what mutually exclusive means.

"people are fat"

"people are unhealthy"

these statements mean two different things and are not inherently contingent on each other

that was my point, stop being a fucking jerk

Obesity does put strain on organs and does cause a multitude of what would otherwise be non-occurring diseases in certain individuals, this is true . I realize it's not still aug 2022

[Ello Sailor]

[knee tunes]

So it's no longer anti black? Thank heavens.

Don't be so passively -aggressive racist .

And you reposting that tweet is "how"

[Ello Sailor]

I didn't realize there was a time limit on laughing at idiots, I guess.

[JuanHamm]

Where's the sport in dunking on random Twitter morons?

[knee tunes]

Maybe there should be a thread

[Jorge]

I didn't realize there was a time limit on laughing at idiots, I guess.

I was addressing blueviper's "so much for starting 2023 on a positive note"

[Ello Sailor]

Ah, makes sense. Still, I would say Jeremy Renner being maimed by a snowplow has '23 off to a shitty start.

[B]

I can't agree with Ms. Harmless that weight and health are mutually exclusive, but weight is not completely predictive of health, so people should keep their opinions of the health of fat people to themselves. People have doctors for that sort of thing.

As for the word "obese," I would not take kindly to that term from anyone other than my doctor.

[blueviper]

Also that tweet is from three years ago

Good to know. Thanks.