You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.
I considered obesity a disease. It can destroy you from within. It almost destroyed me, and I do not want that to happen to anybody.
A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it's not a nice feeling.
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.
Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.
Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships.
There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.
We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.