“Body positivity” has become about celebrating unhealthy bodies. “Being your true self” has become about injecting yourself with hormones, changing your name, and undergoing invasive surgery. Mental illness has become merely “another way to be."
“Body positivity” has become about celebrating unhealthy bodies. “Being your true self” has become about injecting yourself with hormones, changing your name, and undergoing invasive surgery. Mental illness has become merely “another way to be."
A few years ago I referred to Trump as "the fat oaf." Some person responded and implored me to refrain from "body shaming." This is what you mention in your first sentence above.
I got furious. I got fat once from Zoloft and after I stopped I dieted off the lard and took eight inches off my waistline. But I didn't mention that. I wrote about how both my parents died of cancer and how several of my friends have grave and lifelong medical conditions like multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia, and how thrilled all of them would be if they could escape those conditions by nothing more challenging than eating less for a while.
I've 'body-shamed' Trump as well, along with the North Korean dictator I routinely refer to as the 'Fat Kid', and the late Toronto ex-mayor Rob Ford (although not anymore...he had just begun to get his alcoholic, crack-smoking shit together when he died of stomach cancer).
My reasoning is thus: Trump body-shamed many and particularly women he didn't consider 'wank worthy', although he seems to have had no problem raping a then-47-year-old E. Jean Carroll. But his prior body-shaming makes him a legitimate target, AFAIC.
Kim Jon Yum-Yum has slimmed down a bit in recent years but is still overweight, and it was offensive to see him when he was obese when most of his country was starving and eating grass and bark to survive.
Rob Ford ran afoul of me because he was, before his recovery started, a self-described '300 lbs of fun' yet he didn't want to allocate tax money to poor kids' lunches because it was 'too expensive'.
This was a guy who announced he was going to lose weight and then got busted by journalists coming out of KFC with a big bucket.
So yeah, there's still a place for fat-shaming. When you ask for it.
I don't fat-shame Chris Christie or anyone else who isn't a bloody hypocrite, or downright evil.
“Body positivity” has become about celebrating unhealthy bodies. “Being your true self” has become about injecting yourself with hormones, changing your name, and undergoing invasive surgery. Mental illness has become merely “another way to be."
This is what comes of anathematizing judgment.
"This is what comes of anathematizing judgment"
Yep. And ironically the people who espouse these ideas are amongst the most judgemental human beings in history.
A few years ago I referred to Trump as "the fat oaf." Some person responded and implored me to refrain from "body shaming." This is what you mention in your first sentence above.
I got furious. I got fat once from Zoloft and after I stopped I dieted off the lard and took eight inches off my waistline. But I didn't mention that. I wrote about how both my parents died of cancer and how several of my friends have grave and lifelong medical conditions like multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia, and how thrilled all of them would be if they could escape those conditions by nothing more challenging than eating less for a while.
"Body shaming."
I've 'body-shamed' Trump as well, along with the North Korean dictator I routinely refer to as the 'Fat Kid', and the late Toronto ex-mayor Rob Ford (although not anymore...he had just begun to get his alcoholic, crack-smoking shit together when he died of stomach cancer).
My reasoning is thus: Trump body-shamed many and particularly women he didn't consider 'wank worthy', although he seems to have had no problem raping a then-47-year-old E. Jean Carroll. But his prior body-shaming makes him a legitimate target, AFAIC.
Kim Jon Yum-Yum has slimmed down a bit in recent years but is still overweight, and it was offensive to see him when he was obese when most of his country was starving and eating grass and bark to survive.
Rob Ford ran afoul of me because he was, before his recovery started, a self-described '300 lbs of fun' yet he didn't want to allocate tax money to poor kids' lunches because it was 'too expensive'.
This was a guy who announced he was going to lose weight and then got busted by journalists coming out of KFC with a big bucket.
So yeah, there's still a place for fat-shaming. When you ask for it.
I don't fat-shame Chris Christie or anyone else who isn't a bloody hypocrite, or downright evil.