Long rant: Constructivism and fat politics One of the international relations classes that I've been taking this semester recently talks about constructivism. Now, I'm not an expert in political science, since political science is not my main major, so if there's any mistakes, feel free to correct me.  There is an ongoing debate about the definition of constructivism, but constructivism as I understood, is a social theory where: (1) reality is socially constructed, (2) there is no such thing as a true fixed reality, and (3) reality is dependent through the lens you view the society.  Constructivism in international relations is where people come up with ideas, introduce them and establish linkages with other people around the world. As more and more people accept this idea, it produces a cascading effect, which brings attention in the realm of international politics. Hence, when acceptance reaches some point, internalisation will occur, where people will be forced to make changes to the structure of the system to acknowledge this issue.  When you apply the theory of constructivism in explaining fat politics, especially HAES, somehow it all makes sense. Initially, a few people may have came up with an idea where people can be healthy at every size. I'm more prone to believe that the HAES movement started with good intentions, and actually is a shitlord movement encouraging people to be more active and striving to be healthier, even when they are fat. Now, the key point is "striving to be healthy" not "healthy at every size". However, as the idea gained momentum in the world, it was gradually hijacked by a bunch of fat activists, who claimed that they are 'healthy at every size'. These people act as agents spreading the new idea of "healthy at every size" the HAES we now know. As almost two-thirds of the population are either overweight or obese right now, there is a cascading effect in the acceptance of this idea. Hence, we are actually nearing or are at the final stage of fat politics, where it is being internalised by the majority. This is why you see airplanes making bigger seats, other concessions given to fat people. The society is changing to accomodate fat people, which is the main aim of the fat activists who hijacked HAES. They want to change the structure of the system we are living in, to fit them. They do not care if they are spreading a bunch of lies. Fat is not healthy, fat brings substantial health risk, increase mortality rates at younger ages and other diseases that sacrifice the quality of life. Fat activists do not care about fat people, or even the younger generation who might be misled by their bullshit, just because they want to make life easier for themselves, even if it means dying and suffering from a multitude of obesity-related diseases at a young age. This is the only reason I continue to browse FatPeopleHate. It keeps me sane from the normalisation of obesity out there. I especially liked how people compare smoking to obesity, because if you substitute obesity with smoking, you would find that no rational person out there would support all this bullshit, or even expected to accommodate them.  Thanks for reading all this long rant. I just needed to get it off my chest.