Fat shaming week on twitter.....apparently.

It was started by return of kings, an hilarious MRA website full of paranoids along the lines of a voice for men.

Does anyone really take these people seriously? There's a post on their site which purports to come from some kind of psuedo-military group which has 'infiltrated' feminism. I mean, come on. Only the utterly insecure need to fat-shame, slut-shame or whatever-shame, sucks to be them.

There are more indicators of poor health outcomes than weight, funny how we don't genetic-predisposition-shame people, isn't it? It's all about a value judgement on 'who they'd fuck' probably with a healthy dose of 'who refused to fuck them' thrown in.

"Shaming"

I'd feel the same if it was "Smoker Shaming". I've never smoked but "shaming" anyone is just cruel.

Why would anyone want to make another person feel shame?

And this isn't about health. If it was about supporting people in making healthy choices then they would have started a hashtag like #HealthyRecipeWeek or #EffectiveExerciseWeek but they want to SHAME people instead.

Sickening.

I bet that what is considered 'fat' for a woman is not really fat but rather the mid to high range of the BMI chart.

Incidentally it's less unhealthy to be slightly overweight than slightly underweight but I very much don't that they will be having a 'skinny shaming' week anytime soon.

Another thing to take into account is that we know nothing of the circumstances of those people who are morbidly obese. They may have very real medical conditions that make weight loss hard. They may be compulsive over-eaters which is as much an eating disorder as anorexia or bulimia. It's far too easy to label people without looking too deeply at the real problems.

I agree that's wrong, people can look how they want. What is the 'fuckabilty test'? I reckon the male and female human 'fuckability test' are very different. My gay mate is always at it.
I don't like the new phrase 'real women' as well. That needs to be scrapped. Very damaging.

The only objections I have are health.

This isn't about overfeeding children. It isn't even about being overweight and the health implications of that. This is about men making women feel ashamed because they don't pass their fuckability test.

Why? Medically it is well known to be unhealthy. You wouldn't want people to abuse their children with alcohol, smoking, so why would you with the children's diet. Especially if it isn't necessary.

I don't see a difference between fat men and women personally. I do see it in the media.

It doesn't affect other people directly, being fat, but there should be a responsibility to not over feed children or feed them shit.

It definitely isn't healthy to be over weight

it's every individual's choice to be fat

That is such an ignorant and judgemental comment.

And I'm sorry for using the word fat there - I actually hate it as a word so I don't know why I used it. It is a word that brings up connortations of shaming just by using it.

Nobody is saying anything about "applauding" being fat yougotbale. They are just expecting not to be shamed and belittled and told they are lazy. It is not a coincidence that most of those comments are directed at fat women. Not men. Plus the criteria for being fat appears to be if your thighs touch

And being fat is nothing like smoking. Being fat doesn't affect other people's health for a start.

I think it's on par with smoking. It's a bit lazy to be vastly overweight in most cases. It's not a coincidence that contestants on dancing competitions lose weight.
However, it's every individual's choice to be fat but I wouldn't expect it to become the norm or be applauded.