ext_26509 ([identity profile] beingjdc.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] karen2205 2008-02-04 10:38 am (UTC)

If someone six feet tall wants to be twenty-eight stone then I suppose that's up to them, but telling them it is a normal or desireable thing to be is abusive, in my opinion. I do not believe it is possible to be that height, and weight, and have 'generally good health' - whatever your natural body shape. I don't really believe it's possible to be that weight and able to get up stairs, or quite possibly out of bed at all.

It largely comes back to my philosophical positivism, and belief that liberalism has made us stray into the worldview that just because we should be morally neutral regarding things which are different but both fine, we should start being morally neutral between things which are and are not fine.

Also I like your concept of dying 'more'. I personally only intend to do it once, but I am curious as to how fat people do it more often than that.

OK. Fat people die more as a proportion of their statistical cohort. I do receive feedback from others (as well as my scales) on my varying weight, and some of that is normative as well as descriptive. I accept that, and I'm very glad I don't live in a fat-positive society such as the USA, or I would probably just keep ballooning until I couldn't leave the house. Certainly that's pretty much what's happened to my cousin, who was brought up by my food-positive and quite probably fat-positive grandmother.

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