Don't you think it's selfish to put be claiming that it's beautiful to be at a size that should a medical emergency arise, you're likely to cause injury to any hospital staff that need to move you, thus making your weight the cause for a career being ended? I would think you would feel at least a bit bad about that, especially since, even if you don't believe it's proven, there is massive correlation between obesity and diseases that will cause medical emergencies.
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famouswizardlover
1. Sure, it’s selfish. I want to be happy and live a happy life. I want to be allowed to live on my own terms, and discover what the best life means for me without being treated horribly for simply living as I would (especially as my life necessarily concerns no one else but me).
There’s nothing inherently wrong with selfishness. Saying you should live for others, in their image, to their standards, for their ends – there’s much more wrong with that than simple self-interestedness.
2. We don’t say who is or isn’t beautiful. Beauty is arbitrary, nearly everyone has their own definition.
3. So fat people should become non-fat (remember: there’s no permanent, safe, healthy way to do this given our current technology) because our sheer size might be problematic for someone if we have a medical emergency? You do realize that you’re talking about maybe 2% of the population whose sheer size would cause reasonably fit nurses and EMTs, especially working in teams, a problem, right? Also, this is a technological problem, not a health or behavioral problem. There aren’t good enough ways to safely move heavy people and device makers know hospitals aren’t going to buy a bunch of expensive equipment for a very small percentage of the population. However, there are profits to be made: if a device maker can make this kind of equipment affordable, and the equipment itself light and collapsible so it could be stowed and used in an emergency, then fat people and the people helping them will benefit. That has NOTHING to do with whether a fat person believe she is beautiful or not. That has NOTHING to do with whether fat people are discriminated against or not. It’s technology. Solving problems blamed on deviants since 1100 AD. Get with the times, grandpa.
4. Those “massive” correlations aren’t as massive as you think. And there are even more massive correlations that are considered acceptable reasons for people to get injured, and whose injuries will go treated. Giant football players destroying their joints on the field? Totally acceptable, and definitely a situation in which good equipment or an emergency team that can lift a lot of weight will be required. But no one’s coming onto Tumblr blogs crowing about how those football players are so damned irresponsible and selfish, or whatever.
5. You just hate fat people and want to find SOME reasonable-ish axe to grind with them so you feel justified in your disgusting bigotry.
-ATL