HarrietTubman [he/him,any]

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Cake day: July 28th, 2020

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  • I don’t think they do [suggest being overweight causes no issues], but the well has been poisoned elsewhere by preemptively assuming that if we even present this as a societal issue and a negative outcome that we’re ‘concern trolling’ and secretly only care because we hate fat people.

    I grew up in Mississippi. Huge food desert, poor population, awful education, terribly obese, and the entire country is constantly being shitty to the people there like they chose it. And the healthcare sucks because doctors don’t try to treat fat people. So sure, it’s not my body, it’s not a literal warzone, and there are other behaviors that need to die, but I have a lot of proximity to this and some of the people I’ve grown up with have essentially no mobility and are constantly having health scares. It’s not just a ‘so what’ to me, these were my neighbors and the common perception is that they experienced some sort of moral failing and not that they are being exploited into an early grave. It’s not my body, but I care about more than just my own body.