Fat

I have been overweight or obese most of my life. And growing up I did not like being tormented about it. The lesson here being that it would be better if people were not cruel and did not recreationally torment others, making their lives worse.

But that is quite different than pretending it was fine that I was a morbidly obese child. It was not fine, and someone should have intervened. I have no doubt that that obesity and this obesity didn’t just directly interfere with my ability to enjoy life then, and now, but that there are inevitably long-term consequences to my having been a fat kid and for the most part a fat adult.

The obesity crisis in the US lead to “being overweight” during the pandemic becoming the main factor predicting worse case outcomes including death. And 1.1 million Americans have died.

There is a huge difference between not being an asshole and pretending that people struggling, or not, with being a little or a lot overweight is fine, or healthy. And while adults are entitled to make bad choices, trying to make being a fat kid, like I was, acceptable is just as creepy as if you were pretending that starving kids is ok.

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Dave

I am an experienced freelance graphic artist and sometime canoeist. I feel strongly about the quality of professional work and like sitting by a remote lake on a sun-warmed rock.

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