Why is fat acceptance on the rise?

[baldsubhuman]

In modeling there are plus sized models and women always tell other overweight women that they are beautiful etc.

I think that's evil for a few reasons. First of all the health of the woman will keep getting worse and it will shorten her lifespan and give her health issues as well as possible low self esteem, physical pain, and it will be harder to find intimacy etc. And believing something false can cause more mental damage long term which can lead to more suffering.

I will use myself as an example. I used to be very overweight in my teenage years. Then I suffered from finding a woman to date or be intimate with. After several years I realized 99% of women don't find fat men attractive (even fat women don't want fat men). That's just reality. I'm not saying that's my fault and neither is it the fault of those women obviously. But because of the false expectations of "fat acceptance" I thought being fat is ok.

After a couple of years of gym and caloric restrictions etc. I was treated like a completely different person. I was respected and admired and both men and women would be friendly and accepting. I later got with a girl that I found attractive without putting almost any effort. Sadly around that time I started losing most of my hair and now I'm invisible to women again. (brutal I Know).

Anyway I think we shouldn't make people feel bad about themselves but I also don't think we should lie to people and make them delusional. We should admit that there is a problem somewhere and encourage people to be healthy and live a better life rather than "empower" them to ruin their lives and future opportunities.

I agree with you (we should focus more on forming healthy habits and looking and feeling better)

I disagree with you (we should lie to people to save their feelings for the short term. But ruin their life in the long term

[NamerOfStars]

It's on the rise largely because of the lies people were told about how dangerous being fat actually is. Does it, in fact, cause hundreds of different medical problems? No. It causes three. It's a RISK FACTOR for hundreds, and an aggravating factor for even more, but those aren't the same as a cause. It's also one of the things people can maintain a large degree of control over, and that's probably what motivated the health industries to push it so hard- but lying to people never ends well. Whether it's with lies, damned lies, statistics, or euphemisms, the truth eventually outs itself, and people get mad. Sometimes they take dangerous courses of action in response.

Sometimes marketers latch on to that, and build the whole mess into a self-repeating cycle. Back in the mid-80's, the big boogeyman was saturated fats, so restaurants abandoned them, pitched themselves as being "more health-conscious", and started using hydrogenated oils. The early 90's saw the rise of the low-fat dietary movement, pushing everything and everyone toward artificial sweetners, to make up for the caloric losses in fat (and briefly towards Olestra, but that just didn't work out). Then came the push against trans fats, and all those hydrogenated oils had to go, so now everything's fried in canola oil, which tastes awful, so they slather on bucketloads of salt, annihilating any cardiac benefit. Now the push is that sugar is the devil; you can have all the bacon-fried steak you want, but each a single french fry and you'll bloat up like a balloon.

A complicated truth will attract few people, but lies always turn them against you.

[Wade12345]

As a single man, I can say anyone who says a fat (especially obese/morbidly obese) woman is "beautiful" or even remotely "pretty" is a liar and is causing that ugly woman to deceive herself into continually harming herself.

Fat people are not 'cute' they are not 'pretty' they are not 'sexy'.

They are repulsive, and that's the God's honest truth.

I'm still 25 pounds over my ideal weight myself, and I hate looking at myself in the mirror because of my stubborn belly fat problem. It's not "cute" it's partly my fault from eating too much, and partly my family's bad genetics which caused me to have Diabetes.

I wish I could lose another 25 pounds, because I know the God's honest truth is "fat people are ugly" and I'm one of them.

[baldsubhuman]

Same bro I'm around 20% boyfriend. Getting to 10-15% is hard and needs a lot of willpower. Also if you have type 2 diabetes then it's curable. It's a diary disease. Look up Dr jason fung on youtube

[jennifer_bloom]

The reason fat acceptance is on the rise is that fat people don’t know how to lose weight because business interests pay fake health websites billions each year to spread false information about weight loss and real weight loss information is censured and banned because it doesn’t congeal with popular accepted knowledge, like any dietitian with good weight loss advice cannot share it without getting sued for harming the health of their clients.

[baldsubhuman]

I wouldn't say real info is censored but I will admit it's hard to find. From an ocean of scams and magical remedies. In reality is 80% diet (eat less frequent and less calories to keep insulin low but calories matter most) and 20% exercise.

[Aimée__LJ]

Being overweight isn't synonymous with being ugly. A persons weight is their business and theirs alone.

[baldsubhuman]

From my personal experience everyone says that but when it comes to dating this is completely false. Especially for men being overweight kills most dating chances.

[Aimée__LJ]

Yet many overweight men are in happy, loving relationships. So that's not the sole cause of not being able to get a date.

[anon_mke]

Your answers are poorly laid out to get you the answer you want. I disagree with you, but it's because people have the right to look how they want and eat how they want and feel good about themselves if that's their prerogative. Everyone is well aware that being overweight is unhealthy, but how does it affect you when someone else is overweight? It's their life. You don't need to be the weight loss Messiah going around spreading weight loss tips to be a good person. Just leave people alone.

[baldsubhuman]

Many people unironically don't know that health and weight are related. And secondly if you think everyone should do whatever they want I agree with you but my point is that people should be at least informed about the effects of their actions. If they choose to live a destructive lifestyle that's up to them.

[genericname85]

because we live in a society where people that don't do shit, demand the same level of respect as people that do shit... it's a more general and deep rooted peoplem. people don't wanna achieve anything. they just wanna get validation right away.

[jahaims]

Because it is good business for businesses lol. It's easy to do because people would rather be delusional than accept reality

[Dchrls78104]

Because stupidity and enabling are, along with the false economy of not telling people the truth in order to spare their feelings.

[Anonymous]

because a lot of fat people protested and cried instead of losing weight.