Your comment makes it seem as if you think fat people should feel awful about being unhealthy. Or that optimum health should be the goal of every person.
I’m reminded of Denis Leary’s routine on smoking, where he points out that Sammy Davis Jr. smoked every day of his adult life and drank booze like a fish and died at age 64. Or that smoking will take ten years off your life. “Yeah, but they’re the ones at the end! They’re the adult diaper, kidney dialysis years - you can have those years, we don’t want ‘em! I’ll take 64 Sammy Davis Jr years over those any time!”
And spare me the “fat people cost society” arguments… everybody costs society. I’m 6’ 250lbs, but I’m also childless. A perfectly healthy triathlete dad with two kids is costing society more than I ever will.
Being fat could be considered unhealthy, but so is being a coal miner, an NFL lineman, or a beer drinker. So what? Why do so many feel the need to hate on one type of unhealthy, but not others?
(If you’re really concerned about America’s obesity, ask yourself why a Big Mac costs half as much as a salad. Rush likes to point out we’re the only country with obese poor people… yeah, because they’re eating the food they can afford.)
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Commenter RadicalRuss. On the previously-posted HuffPo article about fat hate on facebook, there were of course trolls bein’ trolls down in the comments at the bottom. This is one of the best and most concise fat-hater takedowns I’ve ever seen, especially the bit about being childless. I might have to use that one myself.
The troll to which this guy was talking also asked jovially why there wasn’t a “Fat is Beautiful” group, if we thought fat was so great. Not that there was any lack of BBW appreciation groups/NOLOSE and HAES supporters before (do your research, douchebag) but there is now a Fat is Beautiful group, official style, if you’re interested.
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