"Obesogens" Rant At work last week I made an offhanded shitlordly comment and was scolded by a coworker about fat shaming. In the discussion that followed, they said that such a thing as "obesogens" exist: chemicals in the environment (similar to carcinogens) that make us fat, AS IF FAT IS IN THE AIR WE BREATHE, PEOPLE. I simply said, "I can't speak to that," because this was the first time I'd heard such lunacy, and the conversation quickly devolved into a "I'm not into fat acceptance, and am therefore a bad person." I said something about ad hominem attacks, etc., etc., and my coworker later apologized to me for getting over-emotional. They are not fat themselves, just sympathizers, so, y'know, forgive but never forget and all that.  Later I looked it up and of course this "obesogens" nonsense has been posited by essentially no one to peddle a few books on the subject. Seriously, though, I can't believe that even fit people can be so seriously deluded to believe such crap and where did we get to the point that loving someone means enabling their terrible choices?