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  • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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    3 years ago

    I could charitably say that they are implying Juche coaches are actually interested in fitness and wish to share that interest, whereas american coaches are simply too lazy or stupid and want a position to shout at people from. However, it's probably just the fat phobia.

    • melon_popsicle [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I think there is a lot of baseline resentment in American (perhaps even Western?) teens towards gym teachers and coaches. The punchline "how can a gym teacher teach health and physical education if they themselves are unhealthy?" is incredibly common. My own gym teachers were various combinations of lifetime smokers, overweight, bullies, and sexual harassers of 13 yr old girls. As a teen looking to rebel against authority calling out these basic hypocrisies can feel empowering. If we add on the complicated nature of self-image and health and the way that gym classes publicly display bodies in changing rooms and athletic abilities in sports, then it starts to make sense why the out-of-shape gym teacher and the environment thay can come to embody is such a target of hatred.

      • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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        3 years ago

        NCAA football is barbaric, and it is absolutely OK to mock a millionaire asshole whose job yelling and screaming at unpaid teenagers to stop being a pussy and crawl on the 150 degree turf.

    • sappho [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Associating the physical appearance of fatness with the qualities of laziness or stupidity is fatphobic on its own

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        But like, if someone's as morbidly obese as the person in the photo, they're clearly not very active physically at least. Which is kinda weird if they're supposed to be a physical fitness educator (my PE coach liked harassing black kids and sitting around, he also looked like this).

        Not saying being fat is bad, just that maybe not the best person to go to for fitness advice...

          • Gusty [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Being physically active has a lot to do with weight. This is a dumb take.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I understand fat phobia when it comes to like moderate extra weight, sometimes even with diet and exercise, people are still a bit on the larger size.

            But with situations like the one in the picture it's crossed a line into visibly and clearly unhealthy. Shaming the person for it is pointless, but pretending like they're healthy is crazy.