I have always been overweight, I was a fat child, I am a fat
adult. I can tell you first hand that
society treats the overweight differently.
We are seen as second class citizens.
We are teased and tortured as children and we are mocked and ridiculed
as adults. We are seen as lazy, accused
of being dirty and smelly, and told that we are unattractive. It is cruel.
I know what many people will say, it’s my own fault, I have
made myself unacceptable. But I have
trouble agreeing with that. The same society
that judges me so harshly also pushes me to eat eat EAT. Bigger, better, cheesier, sweeter, super-sized,
king sized, gotta have it and so on. We
live in a big box world and it is difficult to not live a big box life.
I am not saying that everyone should be obese, all I am
asking is that you not judge the overweight so harshly. Do not let the door shut in our faces, do not
laugh when we eat, do not criticize us for breathing heavily after a flight of
stairs. We do not want to live this way,
but this is how we are. Why do you feel
the need to make it worse? Your behavior
displays how shallow you really are.
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