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"Obese” is the N word for plus-sized people

posted a year ago by DrAnitaBeEtinPhD (33)
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Calling people obese is more abusive and hateful than telling them they're fat. People need to control what goes out of their mouths and the slurs they use. Too many people are fatphobic and discriminatory against big-boned individuals. Being called obese is annoying, embarrassing, and tough to hear. I am a Fat-Affirming Dietician w/ a Ph.D. and I can positively tell you that having excessive body weight is NOT a choice.

So I ask all of you to be more considerate of your words and not to be fatphobic because fat lives do matter!

[–] mikethemartian (6201) a year ago

I weigh almost 260lbs at 6’ and although I’m not as large as many I see, I refer to myself as obese and that is technically correct per the medical usage of the term.

[–] DrAnitaBeEtinPhD (33) a year ago

Hi, Mike! You are not obese and stop telling yourself that. You are a person with more to love. Husky men are fun and caring, unlike gym rats with egos and violent tendencies.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (10800) a year ago

Obese is the clinical term. The term "morbidly obese" sounds truly horrible. I mean "morbid" invokes death.

[–] R_Kane (15828) a year ago

That’s because it is a specific level of obesity that IS life-threatening. It’s not an arbitrary term.

[–] ColumboKate (5344) a year ago

I realise that this is a sock account and here for click bait, and yet I still have to respond!

Wtf you on about?! Fat people are fat because they eat to much and move too little.

I'm fat because I eat all the cheese and drink all the wine. I'm under no illusion that I have a "thyroid issue". I just like food and don't like exercise.

[–] DrAnitaBeEtinPhD (33) a year ago

Are you really trying to educate me on fat-phobic “medical terms” when I literally have a Ph.D. in Body Positive Medicine? I am also the author of Snacks Over Scales and Health at Every Happy Meal. I’d love to see your Doctor of Philosophy degree hanging on your office wall. I take academia as seriously as I take being a feminist and a liberal activist.

[–] ColumboKate (5344) a year ago

You need meditation classes love.

[–] michaelDclarke (1674) a year ago

Agreed. It's amazing to see footage from the early 20th century, and there were HARDLY any obese people around. That clearly tells you it's a choice.

--Michael D. Clarke

[–] DrAnitaBeEtinPhD (33) a year ago

Growing up fat isn’t something you get to “choose”. This isn’t a Krispy Kreme drive-thru. I can’t exactly order the kind of body I want off the menu.

[–] Otter (24464) a year ago

I disagree, IMHO changes in the food supply have had a massive effect on the average person's weight. Both in the abundance and variety of food available to us, but also the rise in processed foods that are loaded with sugar, salt, hidden fat and carbs, and additives like high-fructose corn syrup that provoke cravings for more... and which thereby increase sales. And the fact that unhealthy processed foods that provoke cravings are much cheaper than hIfealthy organic vegetables and meats.

People have always chosen to overeat or lie around not exercising, or to work desk jobs instead of hard labor, or to eat huge meals instead of small ones, when they had the choice. But few of the unhealthy options were available to previous generations.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

😆

You wouldn’t happen to also be a film critic who has an inexplicable preoccupation with Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Watson, would you?

Asking for a big-boned Watson-fan friend.

[–] DrAnitaBeEtinPhD (33) a year ago

I do enjoy movies immensely and I have a closet full of snacks for movie night. Unfortunately, I am nowhere near the equivalent of being labeled a movie critic. However, I would love to list some of my favorite films and I hope you find some interesting enough to view.

Disfigured
The Nutty Professor
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Shallow Hal
Precious
Hairspray
Uncle Buck (anything with John Candy to be honest)

[–] javie (2207) a year ago

Gonorrhoea!

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12689) a year ago

I've heard way worse things said about or to people with a BMI higher than 25 than "obese." In fact, "obese" is the least nasty word I've heard for big people. Don't believe me? Here goes:

chubby
tubby
fat-ass
fat boy (sometimes used when referring to a woman)
wide ass
wide load
lard ass
lard butt
tub of lard
porker
pig
blimp
walking house
bloated
gross
planet
planetoid
whale
buffalo
elephant
Jabba
Hutt
human manatee
blubber-ball
man-ball
man mountain
humanoid planet

And let's not forget these insulting phrases (often used in comedy before the 2010s)
(Take note that some of these come from the tv show "Family Guy" and "Whose Line is it Anyway?")

"how the heck do you fit through doorways?"
"put down the fork!"
"next time, instead of putting food in your mouth, try a gun!"
"have you fallen through the floor yet?"
"you don't sweat much for a fat girl!"
"are you gaining weight or is your ass eating your pants?"
"don't put on a yellow raincoat, or people will yell 'taxi!'"
"we should transfer you to the next famine!"
"you're so big you have your own gravitational orbit!"
"it's the planet Mercury, son, although what it's doing down by the harbor I have no idea"
"the restaurant/buffet went broke because of you!"
"you a long-lost member of the Klump family?"
"good God what happened to you?!"
"you look like you're pregnant!" (used to insult men with large guts)

As you can see, the word "obese" is definitely less abusive than the above insults.

[–] DrAnitaBeEtinPhD (33) a year ago

I can not express how unsafe this reply has made me feel. It literally put me to tears. I have reported you for hate speech and bigotry. I will be adding you to the list of reasons I will be going on a sex strike. I will not end my sex strike until I receive an apology from another member of this forum and you are prohibited from posting here any longer.

Good day to you, ma'am. You should know that it won't be for me because your post has stressed me out so much I need to go to the grocery store and pick up a gallon of Blue Bunny's Death by Chocolate ice cream.

FAT LIVES MATTER!

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12689) a year ago

You know, I'd feel sorry for you...if you were human. You stink like a Twitter Bot, and you've given yourself away. Know how I can tell?

- your answer indicates that you had a pre-written script in your programming
- you completely missed the deeper meaning behind my reply, and while many humans are dumb enough to not pick up the meaning either, bots don't even try to think, they just see words and type in the pre-programmed response
- your name looks like something a bot programmer would use, if they're just a tiny step up from the lazier programmers who just assign randomly generated trash names to their bots
- you're parroting the same lame lines bots and other pre-programmed snowflakes on Twatter use, namely about the politics of body image, safe spaces, and other crap like that, and are attempting to bait me into insulting you about your sex life--little tip, you can't insult someone about that who doesn't have a body or a real life, and since you have no body, you have no reason to push this BS about "body positivity" towards fat people
- in the entire time you've been on here, not once have you actually talked about movies or tv programs, all you've done is spout "body positivity" garbage, using the same old lines everyone on the web and many crap books have used, without once showing more than pre-programmed lines and talk that a computer would use

So therefore, I don't give a damn if you feel "unsafe" or want to go on a sex strike. Bots don't have sex or a real life. You aren't real, you aren't fooling me, and you have no business coming on here and faking like you know anything about what it is like to be human. And by the way, this site ain't Twatter, where you can cry to the people in charge and throw people out of your clubhouse. Go back to the shadow, bot, and tell whoever programmed you that they need to go back to programming school.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

say the users name out loud!

[–] InquiringMind (2272) a year ago

And if you have a big-boned person of color, they would be called an obese nіggеr. That's a double whammy.
Them's the breaks. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯