'My body' does incredible things! What is with these cows and their ‘my body does____’ rhetoric?  Like it’s some entity being forced on them or like it’s something that they didn’t chose to exist in?   You are your goddamn body.  Your body is the physical manifestation of who you are as a person.   Like it or not, the rest of the world judges you for how you physically look – your hair style, the amount of makeup you wear, your clothing choices, how you carry yourself, etc.  This is how the world functions.   Take for example in an interview – if you come in looking disheveled, un-tucked shirt, messy hair, runs in your nylons – you look ill prepared and unkempt! Who would want that image to represent their company?  Being overweight/obese only makes these characteristics stand out more… it’s highlighting a spelling error in bold font!  So while you don’t have a choice over the class you were born into, the color of your skin, or your sexual orientation – you damn well have the choice to make yourself look presentable or not.   But, then, I suppose if their body isn’t a choice they don’t have any responsibility for how disgusting they have let themselves become…