The latest in size shaming rubbish can be found on the ABC News website.
The following is my response:
Lovely Headless Fatty picture. The perfect way to start your piece is by dehumanizing larger people.
Correlation is not causation.
While there may be a correlation between being a person of a certain size (i.e. there is correlation between having a very slender body type and developing osteoporosis, and there is correlation between having a large body type and developing insulin resistance) having a certain body type is not the cause of either of these conditions.
This piece is victim blaming and scapegoating. Seeing as yo-yo dieting is bad for the body and it is very rare for anyone to achieve long term weight loss by dieting, it helps no-one to keep pushing the same agenda that has never worked and only causes larger people to become targets for abuse.
While we're here, let me just show you a disgusting fat hog who has several obesity-linked problems. If this pig hadn't always been shoveling food into his gargantuan face, he would be super healthy and would live forever. But instead, because he's such a grotesque fat fatty, he has a heart condition requiring a pacemaker.
Take a look again at this rotund ham-beast. Because he is so fat, he caused himself to have a stroke with the large amounts of lard in his vascular system.
If this lard ass blubber butt land whale had only stopped shoveling truck loads of food down his massive craw, he probably would not have developed cancer.
Just look at this massive ham planet, yawning after eating his own family out of house and home because he is such a glutton. It is his own fault that he developed Alzheimer's. If he'd only had the decency to not be such an oinker, he would be fine and dandy.
While we're at it, let's take a look at one of his close relatives.
We don't know if Fatty McOinkerson's brother eats his relatives out of house and home, but we do know that guys with male pattern baldness are more prone to developing prostate cancer. If Angus Young doesn't want prostate cancer, he really needs to take better care of his hair. Imagine being such a lazy ass that you let your hair fall out! He could at least have the decency to get plugs.
In case you don't recognize hyperbole and sarcasm, the paragraphs about the Young brothers are oozing with it. They are written in a deliberately over the top victim blaming and ridiculous fashion to illustrate a point.
Correlation is not causation.
People of all sizes develop problems such as cancer, dementia, diabetes, heart disease and hypertension.
Big people have a tendency to avoid getting medical care because they fear the shaming that they know is very likely going to be served up to them by medical personnel. Thus, sometimes issues that could be controlled if caught early on go unchecked until they become exacerbated. At that point, sometimes it's too late to help the patient.
Conversely, thin patients may have health problems that go unrecognized until the problem becomes severe because medical personnel assume that someone who is thin is also healthy.
Size shaming helps no-one.
It is up to all of us to not size shame, to call out those who do size shame, and to make this a better world for people of all sizes.
~The Cheese Hath Grated It~
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