please take care of yourself comrade
your comment is reinforcing fatphobia and i am pointing that out. do you consider thin people who quit a diet and go back to eating junk food all day to be “relapsing to their old lifestyle”.
really the fundamental question here is: do you think fat people should need to lose weight in order to be treated with the same respect as thin people?
not all fat people live the same lifestyle, as i’m sure you’re aware. many fat people live incredibly fit and active lifestyles and are still fat. and even if a fat person lives an “unhealthy” lifestyle, so what? the premise i’m operating on here that fat people should not have to lose weight in order to be treated with respect.
i think you should really do some introspection on why you think fat people should be obligated to diet forever or else they’re “relapsing”
GOOD post
edit: worth noting that there are a lot of women on hexbear, your phrasing may imply exclusion of trans women which I assume isn't your intention; ofc the chauvinism you describe affects trans women as well, including i'm sure many trans women who use the site.
please read through some of the links i’ve provided in this thread and do some self-crit. any analysis of health outcomes for fat people that doesn’t factor in medical fatphobia (doctors literally KILL fat people) is a fat phobic and unsound analysis
This is something I really want to work on as a mod and I’ve brought it up to the mod team (also I brought it up on hexbear before I was a mod.) I think this is a serious issue on this site for sure.
OP’s doctor said that ALL thin people exercise more and eat better than OP, which is patently untrue. This is an issue of medical fatphobia.
I’m going to drop some studies here that seriously cast doubt on the idea that there is a causational link between weight loss and health.
https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/spc3.12076
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26841729/
Also Health at Every Size is challenging the weight loss paradigm within healthcare:
Fatphobia in the healthcare system is MAJORLY behind the poorer health outcomes of fat patients.
Fat comrades, I have a question to ask: I have so far left up the fatphobic comments because I thought that it might be useful for uninformed people to see these arguments get debunked and to see exactly what our counterarguments are addressing. However I also realize that this is much more distressing for you all than it is for me and I recognize I have thin privilege here. Please let me know if you believe we should take the comments down and if you have ideas for any other mod actions you think we should take to combat the pervasive anti-fatness issue on hexbear.