{"id":20445,"date":"2015-10-19T05:36:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20445"},"modified":"2015-10-16T15:39:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T22:39:47","slug":"a-response-to-the-fat-whisperer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20445","title":{"rendered":"A response to “The Fat Whisperer”"},"content":{"rendered":"

coswhateverforever<\/a> asked: \u2022Obese people arent healthy \u2022You can still love yourself at any size \u2022There is no health at any size and it can cause many problems.. How can you love your body when youre slowly killing it? \u2022Its ok to have some extra weight \u2022I was once bigger but im at a good weight and im glad my body is in better conditions (could barely exercise, high cholesterol, sluggish) \u2022Insulting and anti fat acceptance arent the same \u2022Stop making excuses when your health knows the truth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don\u2019t know for sure, but I assume this ask comes in response to my cartoon \u201cThe Fat Whisperer.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

1) Obese people are not a single entity. Some obese people are currently healthy, some are currently dealing with illness or health problems. (Ditto for thin people). Either is fine. I\u2019d rather be healthy than not, but being unhealthy is not a character flaw or a moral failing.<\/p>\n

That said, I\u2019d argue that the stress and lack of self-care that comes with self-hatred is a huge <\/em>health problem among fat people. Attitudes like yours – which, regardless of intentions, are part of what causes fat people to learn to hate ourselves – are making us less <\/em>healthy.<\/p>\n

2) Agreed.<\/p>\n

3) Of course there are healthy fat people, by any measure of health other than \u201care they fat?\u201d That some people are fat and healthy is very well documented. (Also, I\u2019m not \u201cslowly killing\u201d my body by being fat.)<\/p>\n

4) Agreed. To which I\u2019d add, it\u2019s also okay to have a lot of extra weight. Or to be underweight. Or to be so-called \u201cnormal\u201d weight. There is no one weight which is the right weight for all people.<\/p>\n

5) I\u2019m glad you\u2019re feeling better.<\/p>\n

6) Sure they are. For example, your comments here – such as \u201chow can you love your body when you\u2019re slowly killing it?\u201d – are condescending and insulting.<\/p>\n

7) \u201cStop making excuses when your health knows the truth\u201d – wow, if I could rewrite my cartoon<\/a> now, I would DEFINITELY have the \u201cFat Whisperer\u201d character say that line – it\u2019s perfect. So thanks for reassuring me that my cartoon was on target.<\/p>\n

And also:<\/p>\n

Even if you\u2019re right that being fat is unhealthy – I don\u2019t agree, but put that aside for a moment – so what?<\/i> The vast, vast majority of fat and obese people will never be able<\/a> to stop being fat or obese. So you\u2019re like someone walking up to a seven-foot-tall person and saying \u201cyou\u2019d be healthier if you weren\u2019t so tall.\u201d That\u2019s not helpful advice<\/b>.<\/p>\n

In fact, telling fat people that they MUST! BE! THIN! and if they\u2019re not thin then they\u2019re just \u201cmaking excuses\u201d just makes fat people less healthy. Stress makes us less healthy<\/b>. Being taught that we\u2019re weak and flawed and that our bodies are ugly and not worthy of love, makes us less healthy<\/b>. So if you actually care about fat people\u2019s health, my recommendation to you is that you stop telling us your opinions about our health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

coswhateverforever asked: \u2022Obese people arent healthy \u2022You can still love yourself at any size \u2022There is no health at any size and it can cause many problems.. How can you love your body when youre slowly killing it? \u2022Its ok … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20447,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20445\/revisions\/20447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}