Oh yes, evil Doctor Niam, taking a health class and learning how damaging this lifestyle of obesity is.
The fact is, being queer, despite what the right wing vomits forth, has no innate health risks while obesity does in fact have health risks, and should not be celebrated, due to these real, scientifically documented health hazards.
But good going equalizing being gay to being fat, by the way. I could go into the logical implications, but that would take forever.
The fact is the research has shown the truth, and I simply say this truth. To me, it does not matter if I am seen as a douche or cruel or a "shitlord" so long as I know who has done the research.
Having done the research still doesn't give you the right to act like a street preacher toward people. I still maintain that there's nothing immoral about being unhealthy for any reason and treating people badly because of any health issue they might have is a dick move, especially when the people you're being a dick to are already typically seen as unattractive and undesirable. You don't like the metaphor I used, that's fine. I wasn't saying the two were equivalent, just equivalently stupid. If you want something more similar, try comparing your crappy ass statements to the age-old 'just stop being poor' or 'just stop being depressed' "advice" that people who deal with those issues constantly get. After all, being mentally ill and/or poor are also consistently shown to cause and correlate with being unhealthy and dying early and are seen as things you can just magically 'end' almost as often when people don't want to feel guilty for acting superior over others.
Those two things are generally less visible though, and are therefore less easy for people to be personally offended by, which is probably also why you don't often see people claiming to just be concerned about people's health when demanding that they just magically stop being depressed or trying to convince them to invest in a worthless degree or their crappy penny stock.
I simply feel that, with how close my father came to a deadly health incident due to being obese - specifically, a problem with his spine, I cannot abide by Body Positivity and the folks on Tumblr that seem to voice opinions stating that they feel fine at high weights and that health issues and crises are ableist / fatphobic lies. Like it would be okay for anyone to be overweight and not expect serious health issues in their future.
With the health class I'm taking in college, I simply feel its my responsibility to contradict the Positivity movement.
The Body Positivity and Fat Acceptance movements spread poisonous lies that are worsening an already bad problem.
Though I was bullied myself, in my perspective, simply telling people who are online who relish in their fatness and how they "accept" it is not bullying. Its simply stating facts and scientifically observed data.
I do not encourage treating fat people with contempt. Contempt is what I reserve for people who as I covered earlier relish in their high weight and tell people it is okay and healthy to be big and to get bigger.
