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Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Olivia Burton asks some pertinent questions:

Being fat – overweight or obese ­- is not a bad thing. Many of us were born this way, just as you were born short or with blonde hair. Are we to change our DNA? Are we expected to curse our genes, our parents, or grandparents? I am fat. I do not ask for your hatred. I do not ask for your rude remarks. I do not ask for your judgment. I do not ask for your outrageous demands, nor for your attempts to make me skinny. Yet I receive them anyway. Why? Why is the world seemingly thin-obsessed?

A Few Words For Non-Fat People

Nudiemuse gives some excellent advice to non-fatties:

All too often there is a prevailing thought process in people who are not fat when they speak of or to fat people. Or even about fat people. For the record I’d like to give my home skillets who are not of the fat ass sort a few words of wisdom from the fat side of the force.

Extremist View – Eugenics

Elizebeth explores a motive for, and outcome of, fat hatred:

In this post I’m going to explore an idea that some could consider an extremist view. That is this – anti-fat policy pushes forward a eugenics agenda. Wiki says, “Eugenics is the study and practice of selective breeding applied to humans, with the aim of improving the species. “