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Again no comments so eh, I don't care. I just need to get things out sometimes.
Anyway. So I read a recent post in a thread I normally frequent because I happen to like the thread. Basically this post (from a non-regular poster) said that she knew a friend who was fat and hated it, even though this friend had a medical disorder.
That's plain and simply rude in my view. If someone has a legitamate disease that prevents them from losing weight in the conventional methods, they shouldn't be hated. I mean if she can't lose the weight because of her disease, what is she supposed to do? She wants to change but can't, that has to be the worst thing in the world.
The obese people that eat 5000+ calories a day and complain they are fat, they're the ones that annoy me. I mean they KNOW what there problem is but they refuse to change it, that bugs me. Especially the story about one man, who weights about 600+ pounds and gets disability checks.
I mean he eats what a family of four would eat for dinner in one sitting yet refuses to change because he LIKES the way he looks. I know different people have different body images and what not but that's just wrong in my books. I mean he's taking money from hard-working people (again, he's on disability because of his obesity) yet he refuses to change. There's starving people on the streets that money could be helping but it's going to some obese idiot who won't get off his lazy arse because he doesn't feel like it. And no, he has no disease that impeds his weight loss.
I try not to judge a book by it's cover, I really do. I've never made fun of anyone in my life unless they started it or acted really stupid. Then yeah, I'll make fun of them. But I would never and will never intentionally go up to someone who is over-weight and start teasing them. I mean there are diseases out there that stop people from losing weight and I would feel like a total dumbass for making fun of someone with that type of disorder.
I mean yeah, I'll admit, I always felt a bit wrong serving some obese person a grease filled hamburger when I worked at a burger joint, but I'm not going to yell at them for it. I'll give them a weird look if they have five on their tray and it's only them but just one, then fine. Maybe they're trying to lose weight and it's their 'free day'.
I don't know, I just don't like all the bad vibes some people give fat people sometimes. In some cases (like that guy) then yeah it's fine. If they have a disorder then no it's not fine. I've always said, I'd rather date a bigger girl with a good personality then some skinny girl whos an airhead. But hey, that's just me.
Again, comment, PM I love a good debate and forums suck.