The Fat People's Revolution

Today I was in a political science class that I may end up dropping if I can replace it with a poetry class, but that's not the point, I learned something during the boring introduction class that only involved syllabubs assimilation and the fact that we can't call our professor Misses Bowen., but that "people who have doctorates prefer to be addressed as 'professor,' or 'doctor' because they worked really hard for their doctorate." I already knew that, I'm just not used to formally addressing my professors because most of them usually just say to call them by their first name. What I actually learned came after the syllabubs discussion.


Being that this is a class about civil liberties, one of the activities we started off with was going around the room and introducing ourselves and saying what civil right issue we were most passionate about. Most of the people chose the three main, current event cop-out answers: abortion, gun rights and gay marriage, but one fellow, a big guy said that he supports obese rights. Until today I hadn't known this was a thing, I had heard something of it before, but I probably discounted it as something that was taken from a Saturday Night Live sketch, but it is a real thing. Apparently fat people are tired of being marginalized and criticized for their weight; so tired of it, in fact, that they copy/pasted the ideals of the NAACP into their own civil rights group that they call the NAAFA (National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance).

She would be a good person to have if you need to save a lot of seats (if you don't need to use the seats).

The group was actually founded in 1969 and since then they have been promoting the the furtherance of fat Americans, and apparently they've been pretty successful, because there's a lot of fat people now. Don't get me wrong, I don't have any personal problem with fat people, I love them, I used to be one. Well, I don't love them over other people, I just usually try to treat like skinny, beautiful people are treated.

The thing I don't like about this is that they treat their struggle likes it's equivalent to women's rights or even black rights. Black people had to sit in the back of buses. So what? The new struggling second class citizens can't even get fit through the doors of the bus. Now that's a true profound struggle!

Another reason I don't like it is that it completely disregards personal responsibility, if you're fat, that's your issue, not society's. I think society should help people who are downtrodden and cast off as secondary, but that's not equivalent to indulging people's vices. Obesity isn't a disability, it's an inability. There is nothing wrong with a soft body, as long a soft will isn't the reason for it.