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Originally Posted by 2_b_free
What people say and think about obese people is sickening. I was obese all my life until age 40, when at 311 pounds BMI 54, I was tormented as a child and teen, denied employment as an adult. No one wanted date me or be seen with me, stare at me eating.
I had a big complicated WLS to ensure I would lose weight and never gain it back. For the last 12 years I have been normal weight, have a great job and people who care about me. I can see how others treat the obese and it make me shutter how cruel people are. In today's society, it is not acceptable to be a raciest or make fun of handicapped, mentally challenged, LGBT, or people who are different, but it is open season to discriminate on fat people.
Fat people are still people.
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I don't know I kind of get the impression a lot of that is still acceptable unfortunatly. I mean there is still a lot of stigma towards LGBT, and people with mental issues I mean if you make fun of someone with a physical handicap or look down on them then people will think you're a jerk...if you accuse a mentally ill person of not trying hard enough to just go get a job that's not as unacceptable from societies standpoint. Also from the politicians themselves you here how the mentally ill and poor who aren't employed are just burdens and that the social safety network is a waste of funds.
But yeah it seems society has kind of an obsession with weight and some people attacking others for their weight aren't so physically fit themselves so who are they to even judge someone else's health issues. Sadly there is still a lot of stigma to go around in society.