I dunno, ask the OP. I was merely pointing out that in the event that obesity has a more or less significant hereditary/genetic component, the social stigma against it must be an even more horrible and cruel thing than most enlightened people would admit today.
(Consider, for example, just the fact that our attractiveness criteria appear to be almost entirely a “social construct”—otherwise it’d be hard to explain the enormity of variance; AFAIK the only human universal is a preference for facial symmetry in either gender. If society could just make certain traits that people are stuck with regardless of their will, and cannot really affect, fall within the norms of “beauty” in a generation or two… then all the “social justice”/”body positivity”/etc campaigns to do so might have a big potential leverage on many people’s mental health and happiness. So it must be in fact reasonable and ethical of activists to “police” everyday language for fat-shaming/body-negativity, devote resources and effort to press for better representation in media, etc.
Yet again I’m struck by just how rational—in intention and planning, at least—some odd-seeming “activist” stuff comes across as on close examination.)
I dunno, ask the OP. I was merely pointing out that in the event that obesity has a more or less significant hereditary/genetic component, the social stigma against it must be an even more horrible and cruel thing than most enlightened people would admit today.
(Consider, for example, just the fact that our attractiveness criteria appear to be almost entirely a “social construct”—otherwise it’d be hard to explain the enormity of variance; AFAIK the only human universal is a preference for facial symmetry in either gender. If society could just make certain traits that people are stuck with regardless of their will, and cannot really affect, fall within the norms of “beauty” in a generation or two… then all the “social justice”/”body positivity”/etc campaigns to do so might have a big potential leverage on many people’s mental health and happiness. So it must be in fact reasonable and ethical of activists to “police” everyday language for fat-shaming/body-negativity, devote resources and effort to press for better representation in media, etc.
Yet again I’m struck by just how rational—in intention and planning, at least—some odd-seeming “activist” stuff comes across as on close examination.)