I think lots of hexbears could use reading this article. If you've ever thought about or have gone on a diet to lose weight, you should read this article. If you've ever encouraged someone else to go on a diet, you especially should read this article.
Sadly I've even seen my fellow trans comrades pushing this white supremacist line on here many times, which has been very disheartening...
Good article. I'm lucky to have avoided this in my childhood despite being noticeably overweight for most of it. Kids' bodies are still growing and they all grow in all different ways and they should be taught early that all human shapes are beautiful.
As a health crisis, fatness is the perfect encapsulation of Calvinist brain worms. Because we have a phenomenon that cuts through our entire society, effects literally the majority of people, and instead of looking at societal factors (like relentless food advertisement, increased portion sizes, dumping sugar into everything, creation of food deserts, and so on) we blame the people it effects and call it a personal problem.
Almost everyone in our society is eating the same slop day in and day out, and the people who are just genetically predisposed not to hang onto fat or to not get hungry as often or whatever else get to act like they've figured out some kind of secret. It's the same phenomenon that causes rich failsons to assume that they're just harder workers than everyone around them, a modern version of Predestination.