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[–] theepilepticferret ago
I think thin shaming is worse for society. Here's why:
We're in the middle of an obesity epidemic. Obesity costs billions each year. It costs employers money in lost productivity, it costs us welfare for the ones who are too fat (ie. lazy) to work, and for those of us with socialized medicine, it costs us for procedures and medical treatments that wouldn't have been necessary if the patient hadn't been an obese piece of shit. But instead of trying to do something about it, we have all this HAES and effyourbeautystandards bullshit. So it's making fat "more attractive", or at least less unattractive than it used to be (not for us, we know the truth, but just listen for a sec).
So now, you have all these women (and men) being told that it's OK to be fat and fat is beautiful. But at the same time, you have young women hearing things like, "curves are beautiful" and "real men love curves; bones are for dogs". So these young women who are a normal BMI, or maybe just a hair below 18.5 (but not sickly thin) are hearing it's wrong to be thin. It's not normal to be "that thin" which is just a normal BMI to the rest of us. You have little girls being told having a figure like a Barbie doll is unrealistic, unattainable, and unhealthy. They get the message that fat is healthy, and if you aren't fat then you aren't healthy. So maybe she starts to eat a bit more and exercise a bit less, and when she's 50, all of a sudden she's on a dozen different medications because she's been fat since she was a teenager. Then at 55 she has a heart attack, costing money for a bypass operation, money for a hospital stay, and money because she collects unemployment insurance since she can't go back to work for the next however many months.
I've seen it on message boards, teenage girls asking, "how can I get curvy?" because they're constantly being told that thin is bad and fat is good. It needs to be the other way around. That's why we need to keep doing what we do.