Was going to post this on a Huffington Post opinion piece, but thought better of it. Still wrote it, so here. Why Fat Acceptance is bullshit, for the billionth time. I'll never accept the fat acceptance movement. It seems to have embeded, necessary, in it the assumption that media images shape our beauty ideals. This is nonsense. Women like tall, thin, muscular men, with broad shoulders, and a full head of hair. Maybe a woman would say, well, my husband is short, unmuscular and fat, but, this does not prove a preference, only that they were only able to land a short, unmuscular, fat man. ~70% of men are overweight. Maybe a younger woman would say, well, those aren't the guys I date or prefer, but I would again question. Is it because you don't prefer those guys, or those guys show no interest in you, or that you've learned that they don't want you for anything other than sex, and have moved on? Men like women that are thin, and have a high hip to waist ratio, and, despite what some would have you believe, the best way to achieve this high ratio is to lessen the circumference of the stomach, not increase the circumferance of the hips. A man might rationalize his inability to not land a thin woman, and say something like, "I like a girl with meat on her bones," but show me the man that has the option between both and chooses the fat girl. With the possible exception of black men, whom do seem to like naturally wide hips and breasts, but, this isn't surprising considering so many black women have naturally wide hips and breasts.  We can't be sold what we don't desire. Capitalism gives us what we want, good or bad. There's probably some bandwagoning study somewhere, where, they were able to sell people something useless just by word of mouth, but, this sort of thing has no bearing on pervasive, long lasting sales. We have silly fads pop up now and again. As seen on TV! They don't last.  There's a pecking order, and everyone knows it. The fatter you are, the lower you are on the pecking order. End of story. This doesn't mean that you can't be attractive fat, but it does mean that you would be more attractive thinner.  Just be honest. Say, I accept that I am less attractive than I would be otherwise. I accept that I am severely limiting my ability to land the sort of mate that I most desire. I accept that people are naturally repulsed by the obese, and that while I should expect these people to treat me with respect and dignity, particuarly in professional settings, I cannot expect these people to accept me socially, and I accept that they will not accept me socially. I accept that I am significantly increasing the liklihood of diabetes, heart disease, and am likely shortening my lifespan. I accept that I lake the discipline to control my eating and my exercise habits, that it is not because this is the body I was born with. I accept that I'm giving up on the most socially powerful version of myself. I accept that I will be getting winded from minor amounts of physical activity, and if I were to, say, hike five miles, I would be a burden on any fit person I went with. I accept stretch marks. I accept cellulite. I accept my own weakness.  But, you don't. All of you fat acceptance people do your very best to say the exact opposite of everything above. This level of bullshit is truly amazing to behold. And, you know, I wouldn't care if you were only harming yourself, but fat acceptance people are bent on trying to make every other fat person feel like they do, and are thus harming others. I say this with no sense of irony or humor. You are a bad person. You are a weak person that wants other people to be just as weak as you are. You are a liar and a distorter, and the people that support you can take their good person points and shove them up their asses.