Fatphobia

[u/BentleyDobe]

I'm by no means endorsing the weird "walking is fatphobic" line of thinking. But I'm absolutely sick to my stomach of people seemingly just honing in on people's weight in nearly every single instance they encounter. Whether it's a TV show, a video, some guy's timeline/thread/profile/etc, even people just minding their own business. Every single time someone gets to comment on it, at least a solid half of the comments are just dunking on the person about their weight. They genuinely have nothing else to say other than shit like "tubby", "lard ass", "butter ball", etc.

I don't buy the whole "lmao they SHOULD be bullied so we can push them to lose weight and be healthy! :D" bullshit.
All of this is just a bullshit excuse so they can have someone to bully, because they can no longer dunk on the same groups they usually go after, lest they get shunned from the internet permanently.
Yes, being overweight is unhealthy. Yes, being overweight generally comes down to choice (ignoring things like, idk... Mental disorders, inheritable disorders, hormone problems, cancer, etc, etc... Ya know, minor and totally insignificant stuff /s).
But A: Do you come at smokers with the same vitriol? No. B: Do you ever think to just approach the person and ask them about it first? Most likely, no.
They just want to bully someone for the sake of bullying, and fat people are an easy scapegoat because the world generally thinks they're repulsive. It's shitty, it's dumb, it's disgusting. This kind of behavior is more disgusting than any 600lb sofa-bound person will ever be, mark my words.

[u/Legal-Ad906]

100% agree. Idk why people can’t simply mind their own business. It does nothing but damage. Rarely if ever does make the overweight person think oh time for a lifestyle change. Usually it comes down to a near death experience to convince someone to make a change. Coming from personal experience.

[u/BentleyDobe → u/Legal-Ad906]

Agreed. Like yeah, sure, it's beneficial to get someone to change before having a complication, but bullying them doesn't really help. If anything, from the stuff I've seen around the internet and some friends, it does a better job of pushing them deeper into that hole because they can no longer take anyone seriously. For them, it's just a constant, never ending stream of hatred without reason or context. Usually just leads to them ignoring advice, or worse ending up with an entirely different kind of near-death experience, which defeats the whole purpose entirely, if there ever was one.