Fat Acceptance's Terrible and Slow Creep What bothers me so greatly about obesity in America is that being fat or becoming fat as you get older is treated almost as normal as aging itself.  The usual refrain from unashamed fat people is "we don't like vegetables." How much good FatPeopleHate has done for me and others, much like calories by a fat person, is simply incalculable due to the sheer number. It showed me the worst of fat people, in all their oily, shiny, cringey, 'glory,' and how disgusting they were. And it made me look at myself in the mirror and realize that I was putting on pounds. That this wasn't normal. Everyone's normalizing fatness and fat people, pretending like 'they're just fat, what's the big deal?'  Shit, where do I start? They bankrupt the NHS in every developed country. They drive a stake into gender relations when each gender is repulsed by the other's "typical" or "average." They consume so many more resources than the average- everything from consumption to clothing, to transporting their fat asses wherever they go. The able-bodied EMTs who attend them have a shorter time in the workforce before themselves being too injured to continue working, often becoming a drain on the medical system. Speaking of being a drain, there are cases involving people claiming to be too fat to work. I can think of no other instance, no other disability where it is willingly self-induced and results in benefits being given out. Those who claim food is an addiction and defend this would likely not defend those who choose to shoot up to receive benefits because they'd rather shoot up than work. But instead, we see no discussion of this. Instead, we're seeing the pushing of chubby chasers, people who type "THICC" and "BAE" and other stupid shit over healthy individuals. We're glorifying obesity and overweight individuals, because let's face it, we've lost. 75% of the USA by 2020 will be overweight or obese, according to OECD. And so I guess they're making the best of it, (from the perspective that there's nothing that can be done about being fat as fuck.) And to a point, they're right!  Once you're fat, there's no becoming as hot as someone who was never fat. There's no getting the cartilage back on your destroyed joints. It's like stopping smoking after having had three packs a day. By the time you're old enough to make your own choices about what gets bought and brought into the home, it's probably too late. And what's remarkable is what fat people think is 'overweight.' Most of them have no concept of what 'normal,' is. Attainable, even. Jealousy, crab mentality, whatever it is, stops the few from reaching their potential to be thin, beautiful, active, athletic, whatever you want to pick. We're losing, and we're losing badly. We have to turn this franchise around.