Mon, Jan-16-17, 10:04
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Posts: 8,654
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Plan: Atkins-ish, post-WLS
Stats: 408.0/288.0/168.0
BF:
Progress: 50%
Location: Southern Colorado, USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bkloots
IN the General Low Carb discussion, I've posted a thread titled Fat Shaming. There you'll find a link to a This American Life podcast on the topic of happiness and being fat.
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I think that the story raised a number of very valid points, but in many ways it also went overboard the other way. As an example, objecting to the term "overweight" because it implies that there is a "correct weight" and how dare anyone tell anyone else what their "correct weight" is. Well, if you are a six foot tall male that weighs four hundred pounds, quibbling over what your "correct weight" is is pointless because, whatever it is, you are WAY over that weight. There also seemed to be a running theme, sometimes under the surface, that denies the health implications of being extremely overweight. At one point the say that the medical term "morbidly obese" and "super morbidly obese" are hurtful terms. Well, sorry, but at some point your weight is so high that your morbidity risk starts going through the roof, hence the name. Changing the name to a softer, gentler version isn't going to change that.
There also seemed to be an intentional tendency to insist on seeing any program aimed at improving a person's physical fitness and health as only equating to focusing on how a person looks.
Having said all that, the segments that pointed out the numerous ways in which society and, we ourselves, view being fat in unhealthily negative ways were generally spot on, in my opinion. In particular, how fat people themselves often cater their behaviors to societal views.
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