'1) The assumption that "human weight is mutable and negotiable" is inherently fatphobic.
2) The belief that fat people are unhealthy is fatphobic; obese and overweight are "compromised words", but fat is OK. (Levels of fat small fat, mid fat, super fat, infinifat are also OK, as where you fall on the "spectrum" influences how oppressed you are.)
3) Any promotion of weight loss is an attempt to "eradicate fat people.' (Fat, therefore, is not just a characteristic but an identity.)
4) Oh, and check your privilege before opening your mouth.'"
Fat people who attempt to lose weight are exiled as traitors adds Singh.
"Health" sites now attack doctors for mentioning a patient's weight as if it is as irrelevant to their health as their hair color. Oppression! Discrimination! Yet the fat acceptance claim that someone can be "obese but fit" is as absurd as the claim that someone can be a "smoker but fit." Big Food appreciates the medical misinfo.
Big Food has even launched aggressive campaigns to convince the public that obesity is caused by lack of exercise not their products. Right. Obesity also increases both the morbidity from COVID-19 infections and its transmission.
Weight bias charges also ignore the fact that obesity adds to everyone's health-care costs through drugs, surgeries, hospitalizations and hip and knee replacements.
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