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Originally Posted by rotten42
It doesn't not give him the right to be a bully. It does give him the right to express his opinion just like you have the right to express yours.
I blows me away what people call bullying these days. Basically if you don't agree with what I believe and express it, you are a bully. "Fat shaming"...way to transfer or deflect the blame for your situation on someone else.
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I get in debates all the time now with people when we discuss health issues. The #1 problem is people who have never had serious weight issues telling people who have how they should do it and often making light of how simple it really is.
Its akin to a person who has no problems with alcohol walking into an AA meeting an lecturing those people on how to sober up, and making light of how easy it is.
Fat shaming is so common people barely notice it, but its very pervasive in society and the worst is how much obese people are repeatedly told things like "its not rocket science, diet and exercise.." It belittles the effort and difficulty and treats it as these people are just lazy and have no willpower. Imagine doing that to an alcoholic, people would have more empathy with people struggling with addictions, yet when it comes to food healthy people are judging harshly those who are not as fortunate.
You have no idea what they went through to get to that point, was it emotional reasons, trauma, tragedy, unhealthy childhood upbringing, etc... The world needs to be kind, understanding, not judgmental and harsh as is par for the course when these types of conversation happen.
Mind you CP is much much better than the vast majority of online discussion, way too many good people here to let jerks berate and belittle those struggling with their weight.