It's liberating to see that there are still people who don't buy HAES and still have their sanity regarding weight management. It's annoying to see how widespread the delusion has gotten. Definitely not a US-only thing. And people lap it up, because it tells them it's not their fault they're fat, and it isn't something they could fix even if they wanted to. It comforts them in their lazy complacency, and does nothing to motivate them to start working to improve their situation. It's frustrating to see people flaunt their bad life choices proudly. It's about as infuriating as hearing someone confidently say they drive better while drunk. Only worse, because at least there is a strong public message against that. The fat acceptance movement has made huge inroads in popular media, promoting an image of being glamorously overweight. It's pretty clear which way the tide has turned, and millions of people are heading to an early grave for it. It's amoral pandering to people's weakness, reinforcing it and exploiting it for pageviews, sales volumes and visitor numbers. It's not just some harmless marketing. Reinforcing self-destructive behaviour is the same thing as enticing people to commit suicide. This is why pro-ana is banned from polite society. People who are badly overweight need to be told it's very bad to be fat. They need to stop waiting for a miracle to descend upon them from heaven and use the same simple methods any sane person uses to not be fat. They need to take their own life into their own hands and save themselves from being a land whale. Yes, even though there are all sorts of voices propagating HAES, that does no in any way negate personal responsibility. The personal responsibility completely avoided by big lardballs. If you grew past 300lbs and at no point before or after that thought "Okay, this is too heavy and I should stop eating too much." then you're part of the problem, and you can't pin that on someone else. No amount of advertising forces any food down your throat. No amount of photo shoots pins you down on your couch. No amount of HAES advocacy prevents you from being able to analyze your diet and then rebalance and resize it. There is no sufficient excuse for embracing your weakness and proudly calling it your strength. Teal deer version: At least there is one place where fat fucks are still fat fucks.