Fat logic and sympathy from "academics" I was content to just lurk, but yesterday I had a class discussion that pushed me over the brink - I need to post this. I'm a student at one of the more prestigious colleges in the country, so I had thought that people here would be less lenient towards gluttony. Unfortunately, there is an ever-growing body (teehee) of fats, so I tend to shitlord judiciously, except in debates about fatness when I can really let it fly. One of the classes I'm currently taking is a psychology/sociology discussion course, which is interesting in its own right. Yesterday the topic was what they called "gene X environment interactions" and the implications thereof. Eventually we got to whether being fat is excused by early exposure to gxe fatness - my argument boiled down to "no, because willpower." I was the only who believed that. 12 other students and a professor were all in the opposite camp. It went about as well as you'd expect, so I gave up before I could mention "obeasts." What really struck me was how entrenched they were in the "fat is genetic!" narrative when we'd already said that genes don't negate culpability, AND we'd talked about how even people genomically predisposed to alcoholism can take charge of their lives. But then we got to fat, and immediately there was cognitive dissonance! Even from the professor, who is immensely respected in her field (and also a smallfat). Though, the saddest part for me was how all the other thin guys defended being fat. Not a single guy in that room was overweight, and a couple were pretty aesthetic. The girls, though, only had one human among them. And the girls barely said a word, they just let the thin people fight it out. Sorry if this seems rambling and incoherent, I just woke up and needed to get this off my chest. I hate the fats who made this acceptable.