Loook, I'm sorry, I flew off the handle a bit too. :/ It's been a stressful day and one line had me reacting pretty badly.
I do think that morbid obesity isn't a healthy lifestyle choice, anymore than being chronically underweight is.
I just... have a problem with the constant increase of the degradation, and acceptance of degradation of obese people. I see it, experience it, live it, and perversely it makes me want to lose weight even less than ever.
I have been persecuted for being bisexual, for being Wiccan, for being into BDSM, even for having PTSD and over the past year I have been increasingly persecuted for looking the way I look.
Funnily though it's not the doctors doing the persecuting, but people who act like doctors when they talk about all the health risks. My own doctor is fine with my weight, even told me I didn't have to lose weight before my surgery because it wouldn't have made that much of a difference. The surgeon, nurses and everyone else at pre-op didn't tell me to lose weight, even though I knew - and they knew - that I was officially 'obese' (I'm in the lower end, but I still am).
But my family? My friends? Complete strangers? *shrugs* It's only a matter of time before people think they're doing the right thing persecuting, vilifying or secretly disliking obesity and obese people; just like people thought they were doing the right thing persecuting and vilifying homosexuality.
And to be honest, I do think it's comparable. Persecution is persecution. There's a few other people on my Flist in a similar boat to me, and some of us are just tired of fielding more persecution for our choice to carry extra weight - than most of the people on my Flist would ever get for consciously choosing to practice BDSM / be homo/bi/pansexual / poly etc. etc. etc.
It just makes me incredibly sad, at the end of the day.
Re: Forgive my harshness
I do think that morbid obesity isn't a healthy lifestyle choice, anymore than being chronically underweight is.
I just... have a problem with the constant increase of the degradation, and acceptance of degradation of obese people. I see it, experience it, live it, and perversely it makes me want to lose weight even less than ever.
I have been persecuted for being bisexual, for being Wiccan, for being into BDSM, even for having PTSD and over the past year I have been increasingly persecuted for looking the way I look.
Funnily though it's not the doctors doing the persecuting, but people who act like doctors when they talk about all the health risks. My own doctor is fine with my weight, even told me I didn't have to lose weight before my surgery because it wouldn't have made that much of a difference. The surgeon, nurses and everyone else at pre-op didn't tell me to lose weight, even though I knew - and they knew - that I was officially 'obese' (I'm in the lower end, but I still am).
But my family? My friends? Complete strangers? *shrugs* It's only a matter of time before people think they're doing the right thing persecuting, vilifying or secretly disliking obesity and obese people; just like people thought they were doing the right thing persecuting and vilifying homosexuality.
And to be honest, I do think it's comparable. Persecution is persecution. There's a few other people on my Flist in a similar boat to me, and some of us are just tired of fielding more persecution for our choice to carry extra weight - than most of the people on my Flist would ever get for consciously choosing to practice BDSM / be homo/bi/pansexual / poly etc. etc. etc.
It just makes me incredibly sad, at the end of the day.