- Obesity is a detriment to society & deserves shame. Fat people are lazy and irresponsible and it’s costing all of us dearly
- Being fat is unhealthy and a choice, like smoking. Like smoking, it’s hard to quit and is disgusting
- girls, only thin girls can be carried to the bedroom. you know you want it to happen to you
- Being fat is your choice. Respecting obesity or being attracted to it is my choice, and I choose “No, thank you.”
- Every walk is a walk of shame if you’re fat.
- There’s a reason why Gluttony and Sloth are deadly sins.
- You’re not curvy, you’re a whale. Quit bastardizing the term, creeps.
- Want to win a husband? Have the skill to cook a delicious meal and the self-discipline to not eat it.
- All of your relationship problems are because you aren’t thin enough.
And my favorite of all?
- If weight loss is too hard, you can always eat a bullet.
I didn’t include the Twitter handles of the disgusting people who wrote these, because I don’t want to give them more attention. The worst part is, this is just a selection of the things people said about fat people last week. We are lazy and disgusting, fat is a choice, we don’t deserve love or respect, and we should die. Excellent.
We all know that people feel powerful and unashamed sitting at a keyboard. But when I read vile crap like this, I think: What would their mothers say? I hope they would be mortified to know their children have grown up to be such terrible people. However, our society and the media perpetuate these very ideas – that fat people should be shamed, disrespected, even hated – to such a degree that it’s likely that some of these people have fat-hating mothers, too.
I’d like you to take a minute to think about a time when you saw a fat person and had a negative thought about them. You probably didn’t wish they would ‘eat a bullet,’ but chances are you questioned why they would choose to be that way, questioned their value as a human being. Replace the word ‘fat’ in those tweets with any other human descriptor you can imagine, and read them again. Horrifying, isn’t it?
The saddest part is that fat people don’t experience shaming just for a week – they experience it for a lifetime. The next time you catch yourself having a negative or shaming though about fat (yours, or someone else’s), stop. Treat yourself and the people around you with respect. Stop the shame. Stop the spread of hate.
