• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    It’s not about looks, it’s exactly about health.

    You do see people being judged for the behavior resulting from lack of sleep, wrong food, some addictive habits and so on.

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      1 year ago

      For it to be about health the person needs to care to begin with, and many people eager to humilliate people for their weight don’t have a single drop of care for them. Much on the contrary, really.

      I used to think there was a foundation of concern underneath that, but I have been on the internet enough to witness what a visceral disgust and hatred some people have about fat people.

      People definitely don’t talk the same way about lack of sleep that they do towards weight. Often lack of sleep is even seen as a noble sacrifice. Even when they realize people aren’t sleeping out of self-neglect they are still more likely to be concerned than revolted over it.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve specifically said “behavior resulting from …”, not lack of sleep itself.

        About visceral disgust and hatred - well, I’ve met one girl with weight problems recently. She’s one of the most charming people I’ve met, and attractive too. Before meeting her I (in imagination and first impressions) almost shared that, because I’ve known some unpleasant people with excess weight at school and in my childhood.

        Point being, many other traits are met with hatred by some people with pseudonymity. Cowards are like that.