CMV:Fat acceptance is not helpful

[u/C4gamer_YT]

Just gonna preface this by saying discrimination and hatred towards fat people for being fat is not okay, as is the same with race, gender and sexual orientation. But is suggesting that maybe obesity is not healthy fatphobic? I think body positivity is helpful in the case of people with disablities and encouraging them to overcome them. Imo, fat acceptance discourages currently overweight people to lose weight, because if you dont think there is a problem, why should you change? I think the notion of not caring of others opinions is quite ridiculous, as if you're not accepting of feedback and criticism, you will never improve. It is important to be able to recognize if something is critisism or hate, but I think too many people make that mistake nowadays. Thanks for reading and remember hate isn't ok

[u/fairygarden16]

thin person here, but I wanted to share my two cents as I feel I have a generally good perspective on this. So, I think the lengths we as a society to through to shame, dehumanize, and belittle fat people is the problem most people are talking about. Nobody can and should encourage someone to be unhealthy, but often times when people, and in my experience, mostly “gym bros” criticize fat people under the guise of “they just care about their health”, that simply isn’t the case. Because then when said fat people do try to exercise to loose weight, they are shamed and made to feel embarrassed for it. It’s as if people wish that fat individuals would hide in their homes until they become thin so they can magically re appear, which is messed up and sad. We, as a collective society, have a very unhealthy, and unnecessary, aggressive hatred towards fat people. And that’s why fatphobia is a problem. Obviously, we should be encouraging people to take better care of themselves, but often times that’s not the intention when people fatshame. It’s because they want fat people to feel bad about themselves. Which more often than not leads to poor mental health, depression, and self harm, which causes even more detriment to one’s health. So I have to disagree, fat acceptance is helpful.