Jabrosky
Banned
This morning I went walking around the neighborhood for 75 minutes, and according to my calculations I burned at least 500 calories. I plan to incorporate more exercise into my daily schedule and keep my daily calorie consumption under 2,500 (maybe even under 2,000). The reason I am doing all this is because I am clinically obese and want to better myself in both health and physical attractiveness. In briefer words, I want to lose weight.
Unfortunately I have observed a trend among other overweight people, especially on websites like Tumblr, that really irritates me. This movement calls itself "fat acceptance" or "body positivity", and from what I have seen it essentially advocates that overweight people should embrace their obesity as harmlessly viable, even beautiful. They are the ones who complain the most about how society or the media glamorizes thinner physiques at the expense of obese people who suffer from low self-esteem. The way they present the issue, overweight people are an oppressed class in the same sense as Africans, homosexuals, or women.
Pardon me, but I don't have much sympathy for fat acceptance. Obesity is not a harmless and biologically innate property that people are born with the way sex, sexual orientation, or so-called racial features are. Instead it is an environmentally induced and inherently unhealthy condition that has grown prevalent only in humanity's most recent history. Fat acceptance advocates whine about how society won't tolerate their obesity and accommodate them, but they would better spend their energy actually shifting to a healthier lifestyle and losing weight.
To be fair, I don't advance that overweight people should be bullied simply for being overweight, and I do think that certain segments of society (especially lower-class people of color in the US) suffer environmental conditions more conducive to obesity. What I can't stand are those overweight people who refuse to do anything about their unhealthiness and even deny that they have a problem. Instead of demanding that society glorify your obesity as beautiful, why not actually better yourself and become genuinely beautiful?
Unfortunately I have observed a trend among other overweight people, especially on websites like Tumblr, that really irritates me. This movement calls itself "fat acceptance" or "body positivity", and from what I have seen it essentially advocates that overweight people should embrace their obesity as harmlessly viable, even beautiful. They are the ones who complain the most about how society or the media glamorizes thinner physiques at the expense of obese people who suffer from low self-esteem. The way they present the issue, overweight people are an oppressed class in the same sense as Africans, homosexuals, or women.
Pardon me, but I don't have much sympathy for fat acceptance. Obesity is not a harmless and biologically innate property that people are born with the way sex, sexual orientation, or so-called racial features are. Instead it is an environmentally induced and inherently unhealthy condition that has grown prevalent only in humanity's most recent history. Fat acceptance advocates whine about how society won't tolerate their obesity and accommodate them, but they would better spend their energy actually shifting to a healthier lifestyle and losing weight.
To be fair, I don't advance that overweight people should be bullied simply for being overweight, and I do think that certain segments of society (especially lower-class people of color in the US) suffer environmental conditions more conducive to obesity. What I can't stand are those overweight people who refuse to do anything about their unhealthiness and even deny that they have a problem. Instead of demanding that society glorify your obesity as beautiful, why not actually better yourself and become genuinely beautiful?