Observation or Fat Shaming?

Ice Tea

Ice Tea

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When someone posts online that a celebrity has put on weight without including anything else that's derogatory is that just an observation or fat shaming?

It feels like fat shaming to me as attention is being drawn to it like finger pointing...
 
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Being fat is unhealthy and can lead you to an early grave. Pointing it out can be hurtful, but maybe they will do something about it.

Look at Sophie Dahl or Adele, 'fat champions' who did the decent thing and who lost weight.

Which people were more at risk of dying from COVID? Fat people.

Unfortunately we live in a culture which promotes "body positivity" and shops like Love Your Curves exist. These things do not exist to help people, but to make money and promote whatever media is attached to the cause.

"Fat shaming" is another way of projecting the issue onto the person pointing it out. It's a way of saying, "the problem is yours, not mine, you deal with my choice", when that "choice" is nothing but being lazy and sticking your head in the sand.
 
Who cares. Not your life. You're wasting your own unless you get paid to point out other people's faults. In which case gossip.

My take on it really. Nowadays, that I'm older, I find caring about others, unrelated to mes, lives so tiresome. I literally don't care if people die, other than damn that's a shame but then 1h later ... Something else has happened.

Apart from moaning on here. This is super important. A safety valve almost.
 
Yes, it's fat shaming, because a celebrity's job is generally to act, or sing, or play an instrument or present a programme or play a sport. Outside of that very limited scope, whatever they are/do/eat/read/buy/wear/whatever is no-one else's business and they shouldn't be up on some kind of pedestal for it. As long as what they do is legal and doesn't hurt anyone, it shouldn't be something you care about.

Yes it's fat shaming, because so many people are fat nowadays that it's more of a cultural and societal issue as the root cause than just their individual laziness. Change society and culture, you change the individuals.

Yes, it's fat shaming, but so what? Should they be ashamed? If so, then fine... but given how many of the world's problems come from overpopulation, is it not good that we'll be rid of these fat people sooner?

All in how you wanna look at it....
 
bainbridge said:
If you put yourself in the public eye, anything notable will be reported. It comes with the territory.
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This very much mirrors my views. You can't have it both ways. If you want to create a career out of being in the public eye and profiting off that then you cannot complain when any negativity is directed towards you. If you want people to tell you how amazing you look 99% of the time then don't throw your toys out of the pram when you get 1% of people saying you look awful.

People put out all these curated images on insta and get thousands of "OMG queen, slaaaaay" and then complain that a few people post that they look awful. They are fishing for compliments and furthering their vacuous, vain existence 24/7 on social media. Learn to take the good with the bad. Neither the compliments or the insults are important.
 
Ice Tea said:
When someone posts online that a celebrity has put on weight without including anything else that it derogatory is that just an observation or fat shaming?

Feels like fat shaming to me as attention is being drawn to it like finger pointing...
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Fat shaming sells and you can tell it's exactly that. But as it's already been said, it goes both ways - it all sells.
 
I've struggled with weight for the last 20 years, but there is no one else to blame but me. I've just not been able to stick with a diet plan for long so I end up putting it all back on. I don't have an under-active thyroid etc.

People are finding excuses to be fat e.g. the "fat gene" which I don't think exists.

Taken from Encyclopaedia Dramatica:

100% of the Fat Acceptance Movement is women. This is because a dude will usually be honest about the fact that he's a fat **** because he really likes food. Fat *******, on the other hand, have convinced themselves that they are mysterious creatures who nibble delicately on salads and only weigh 250 lb due to genetics.
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Ice Tea said:
When someone posts online that a celebrity has put on weight without including anything else that's derogatory is that just an observation or fat shaming?

It feels like fat shaming to me as attention is being drawn to it like finger pointing...
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Not only is it fat shaming, it's very, very shallow.
 
We have various images of overweight and obese women whilst promoting body positivity - Cosmopolitan magazine has done several "embrace your curves" type issues with overweight women on it for example.

It makes me wonder what women would say if we had beer-gutted men and the like on various publications under the guise of body positivity.... And, yes, I deliberately stated women as the majority of "body shaming" towards women is made out to come from men who have unrealistic expectations of the female form.

The women I feel for are the genuinely larger built women who are not fat but are just bigger (what used to be called amazonians if that makes it easier to describe) as they are then classed as fat when they aren't.
 
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