Opinion of the Fat Acceptance Movement

[dead0man]

I'm a little confused.  Do they want us to accept that they move?  No, that can't be right.  Do they want us to stop....hassling them?  Is that a problem?  If your friends and family (or medical professionals) are telling you you're fat, YOU"RE PROBABLY TOO FAT.  If strangers are telling you you're fat, well they are assholes, ignore them, and you may or may not be too fat.

[dead0man]

Do fat people regularly get berated for being fat?

[dead0man]

Do fat people regularly get berated for being fat?

Yes, someone's physical appearance is one of the most common causes of bullying. I would think this is obvious.

Past the age of 16?  I know they don't get hired at easily as non-fatties, people may stare (especially children) at the super fat and I'm sure there are dozens (if not hundreds) of other small or subtle things people do, or don't do towards fat people, but I wasn't aware any of them were over the top, adult on adult bullying of strangers who are fat.  I've never seen it.  I'm not saying it doesn't happen, clearly it does, but I wasn't aware it was a major issues for the overweight.

[dead0man]

Kind of dumb, but the people who religiously attack fat people on an individual level as opposed to as a societal problem are morons and normally, weirdly enough, no less unhealthy than your average fatty.

Who are these people?  Where are these people?  I'm an old.  I've seen a lot of jerks and a lot of fat people and I've never seen a fat person openly mocked by an adult stranger.

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Regulate foodstuffs and advertising?  Because some people are fat?  Gross.  Why must we jump to the authoritarian crap?

[dead0man]

Maybe things are different in Nebraska, deadman

I suppose we're just nicer

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I have no idea what you're going on about here.  The devil is in the details, what regulation would you propose?

[dead0man]

Restrictions on targeting junk to children-like a ban on candy commercials during kids shows?  There are already rules about that I think, or at least similar rules. <looks through the rules> Doesn't seem to be anything like what you want, mostly it's aimed at making sure some of the kids programming is educational.  I suppose adding your "no candy ads" rule wouldn't be too hard.  I'm not sure how much it would help, but experimentation is good.

clear labelling rules-our labels are pretty clear, not sure about yours.  If fatties chose not to read them or are ignorant of what the information means, well that's on them.

sugar taxation (we tax all other drugs, why not that poison?)-we tax drugs? (other than nicotine and alcohol, both of which are much worse than the non-drug sugar by any measure)

rejigging farming subsidies to remove perverse incentives to overproduce high fructose syrup-agree 100%

ban and restrict fizzy drinks and junk foods being sold in schools-that's just mean, but I don't really care

workforce rules to limit people being chained to desks all day-you don't see any problems with this?