What are your thoughts on the fat liberation movement?

Question

fat liberation or fat acceptance is a movement, according to google is a movement that aims to break the social stigma of obesity.

As a "former fat" I honestly don't really understand the point, obesity at least in America is on the rise so its not uncommon to encounter overweight people here. At my heaviest I was flirting with type 1 obesity and hated the way I looked and felt in my body because I've never been that heavy in my life, I knew I couldn't do the things I used to be able to do because of the weight that I had put on, I think a lot of the way people tend to gain weight is from little bad habits that pile up before you even realize it which was the case with me.

I don't see how it would be beneficial in any way if we as a society started to "accept" obesity. If anything I think we could really do with learning about how to repair our relationship with food, I will admit I still really struggle with my relationship with food but having a balanced diet and exercising is so important ! The human body is amazing and resilient if you can find it in yourself to push yourself to your limit and not give up on yourself !

What are your thoughts on the fat liberation movement?

SixFootSexy · Accepted Answer

You can assume, rightly so, that every social "movement" is an attempt to manipulate you into an ideology. What do fat people benefit from being fat? Nothing. They have more health risks and complications, they eat more processed foods, sugar and seed oils. This is a systemic problem, you shouldn't blame people for being fat, but there really isn't a lot of affordable healthy options... so what to do as a megacorp? Start a marketing campaign, encourage people to be fat, proclaim that it's empowering!

Weak people only consume, they can't or won't stand up to things that are self-destructive. Big corporations, big pharma, big fast food, etc all want you weak and anxious. Why, you might ask? It's so you trust them as experts and pay them to take care of your problems instead of solving your own. You are stronger than you think.

Sonorous · Accepted Answer

Same as you & other sensible people. I think it's dangerous. I use to be overweight as a kid & for a bit in my early adulthood. But I never saw it as a good or admirable thing. It limited me in far many ways & it gave me many issues that are undoubtedly unhealthy.

Even one of my parents has been overweight for as long as I can remember but she has never glorified it or tried to spin it as a good thing. I'm glad she didn't. Because if I had got it in my head that being overweight can be a good thing, by this point I might have a lower quality of life or no life at all considering the issues I still have even at a healthy weight right now.

sage2021 · Accepted Answer

Watch out what you say on GaG about fat people, or just saying are you one of the fat people in a question.
They are vendictive angry people that want to take out revenge on people who are not fat.
My personal account here on GaG was hacked into and damage was done and GaG won't fix it either. That was their revenge on me for asking if that person was fat.
What do fat people want people who aren't fat to refer to them as so they don't do something vicious and mean to me again?
I realize some people have justified medical conditions or take a medication that causes sudden weight gain. So we need to keep in mind that not all of them are the way they are from eating too many groceries.

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Accepted Answer

Every time I see something about not liking body positivity, it always has to do with fat women and it always has that underlying tone of misogyny.
I’m sorry you didn’t like yourself when you were overweight, and I’m sorry that fear of being seen as ugly and fat still drives you as you are now that you would dismiss an attempt for someone who isn’t you to love who they are.

AliceGregory · Answer

I think it's an over-reaction to the impossible standard set by TV in the 1990s and 2000s and social media in the 2010s and 2020s. Only seeing the bodies of these near perfect models made a lot of girls feel self conscious so the whole "body confidence" was a way to "dilute the influence" and show that not all women are like what you see on your TV/computer screen.

BUT this whole movement ignores what the biggest problem with social media is: it doesn't set a high standard but one that's unattainable for most women. What we're being exposed disproportionately on social media are girls who fall into this tiny genetic elite. The reality is that no matter how much effort we put into our appearance, 99% of us can't meet that standard because we simple don't have hip insertions that can give that perfect bubble booty, a rib-cage that can give us a perfect hourglass shape or a metabolism that will put all of our fat in our boobs while leaving the rest of our bodies skin and bone.

What I think we should instead do is try to set a standard that everyone CAN achieve. My favorite artist is Julie Bell because if you look at the women she chooses as models for her artwork, they're gorgeous and have beautiful, amazing bodies that you can tell they worked hard for. But at the same time they don't fall into that elite genetic 1% that we see on Instagram. They do have flaws like hip dips that virtually all of use have. In short, she sets a high but attainable standard.

DishLady · Answer

It's good not to SHAME people who are chubby, etc., however it's also important to face the fact that it's not a healthy state of being... Those retaining excess weight should be encouraged to pursue heart-healthy avenues of self-care while still maintaining body-positive confidence.

Anonymous · Answer

I mean, a lot of people probably feel bad about themselves and weren’t going to do anything about their weight situation so…. It helps them feel good & learn to adapt to the body they have and to maintain it.
Bullying people won’t solve anything, to fix the issue is to fix our diet & fix our own bodies via self improvement while not crapping on ourselves, that we have a beautiful body whether or not how skinny or chubby it is and through self improvement we keep our body going strong. That is how I see it.

HawkPerception · Answer

Body positivity movement is basically promoting an unhealthy lifestyle. It's spreading a mental illness.

Typicalcanuck · Answer

Yeah and most of the women promoting it are in their 20's. Wait until they're my age when they're joints and their backs start to wear out. It won't be fun lugging around all that beef then. There aren't many women my age saying " Boy it's great to be fat, it's so liberating!"

Yannae · Answer

It's okay to have a movement that tries to get you to not be so hard on yourself. But to embrace obesity... that's like ignoring the extra health risks and that is not okay.

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MrGSpotHer · Answer

I think it's daft it's like saying yes here eat more fat and sugar next you will have diabetes and hart problems maybe even clots wow it's amazing what your doing to your self, it's like accepting alcoholics or drug addiction I find it impossible to do...

strateguy632 · Answer

i blame them that now no seats on bus! all these fat gals sit on 2 and half seats!  they don't bother to be healthy like the past... when just a few men over flowed now many gals over flow!  sheeple!

Anonymous · Answer

the fat liberation movement is predominately for women, not men

that being said, what are fat women being liberated from? at least what are they being liberated from that fat men aren't being liberated from?

RavVid · Answer

It should not encouraged. An obese woman in a g-string bikini did a fat walk without shame in my street. Because I looked at her appalled by the rolls of flesh, she seemed to think she was looking good.

RMSTitanic · Answer

Obesity is considered a disease, increases risk for diabetes, heart failure, heart attacks, stroke etc not to mention being out of breath doing simple tasks. I have no idea in hell why people want to promote it

Nikki1989 · Answer

Sad that there needs to be a movement to state the obvious.

normalice · Answer

It's fine but can't make me find it attractive any more than gay pride could make me find men attractive.

BoopBoopBeep · Answer

I was obese as a kid. This nonsense isn't helping anyone long term.

Billlewis · Answer

I love it! I think fat women are unbelievably sexy.

OtterMan68 · Answer

Why do we never see a March for Fat Acceptance or Fat Acceptance supporters going on hunger strikers until their demands are met?

_piotr · Answer

Woke stupidity, dangerous for health, bad for aesthetics.

LiamJHayden · Answer

I think of it as the glorification of poor diet and health.

gorydetails · Answer

It is enabling self-destructive behavior. We should not do that as a society

TallAnon · Answer

Incredibly unhealthy and bad for society as a whole

sawno · Answer

Its unhealthy.

Agape93 · Answer

It's stupid.

Julian7312 · Answer

It's great. Never feel ashamed of your body.

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