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19/6/13 11:35![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomyIt is good when conversations about body weight don't get reduced to "personal responsibility" and "TWO WHOLE CAKES" but it would also be great if people didn't get reduced to helpless victims of circumstance who can't help their ignorance and inability to eat healthy/exercise.
Yes, it's harder to eat in ways that are coded as "healthy" if you are poor. Yes, it may be harder to get exercise if you are poor. I think it would be great to work on solving those issues. But if one's possible responses to fatness are either contempt or pity, that's hardly any better than just contempt.
It's the "ignorance" part of it that gets me especially. Because any time you say that any person doesn't have enough knowledge to have the right to control their own life, you are headed to a very dangerous place.
(Started eating healthier when I moved closer to the food co-op. Still fat.)
Yes, it's harder to eat in ways that are coded as "healthy" if you are poor. Yes, it may be harder to get exercise if you are poor. I think it would be great to work on solving those issues. But if one's possible responses to fatness are either contempt or pity, that's hardly any better than just contempt.
It's the "ignorance" part of it that gets me especially. Because any time you say that any person doesn't have enough knowledge to have the right to control their own life, you are headed to a very dangerous place.
(Started eating healthier when I moved closer to the food co-op. Still fat.)