I'm sure most of us here have had to interact with DEI content in one form or another, but have you ever encountered material that of which focuses solely on fat people? My pal who works for one of the biggest employers in the US was showing me the affinity group his job has for fat people and it really gives me a big think.

There's a bunch of guidelines that mention steps you should take in order to create a non-triggering environment such as never mentioning food or exercise and not using the word 'diet' or 'calories' in any context. Here's some highlights about the group's mission.

Noticeably, the content is devoid of any mention that being fat carries with it serious health risks, which I suppose is due to the fact that such acknowledgement may cause psychological harm to fat people. So I'm curious as to what my fellow enlightened jspers think about the subject of fat social justice. Is being fat something that should be normalized in order to create a more inclusive world? Is being against fat acceptance only explainable by fatmisia?

Is this type of content causing more harm than the increased rates of heart disease or cancer associated with obesity?

Need to have RFK Jr come out with a decent plan for obesity pandemic.




This post was edited by Hamsterbaby on Aug 29 2025 07:02am

There's extremes on both ends being pushed on people right now. On one hand, the fat issue which you highlight here. Obesity carries significant risks, costs, etc. We have clear research and even if you think they are all paid actor doctors (lmao), you can clearly see obesity is a hinderance and causes issues.

Then on the flipside you have this ultra pressure on young people to maintain an appearance that is near impossible pushed via social media from images and now videos that are edited, taken in the best lighting, etc. and the result is more cosmetic surgery than ever, SARMS and other drugs in young on the significant rise, and I cant even fathom the pressures on women.


We want extremes for some reason in society, the normal but very good healthy physique person is dead now, people don't want to see it and so you have people chasing individuals like Sam Sulek or some crap taking drugs and on the other side you have people who just give in to obesity without a hope.

Remember people like Scott Hermans Fitness and stuff. Those were normal people who achieved a good physique and a healthy lifestyle. Now those type of content creators are dead.

You forget 16 year old boys taking steriods 9 times a week to get JACKED BABY!

People think being fat is bad, theres always something much worse.

Yeah thats what I mean with the SARMS and other drugs in young ones on the rise. Wrote it poorly on the phone.

The middle ground garners no attention. Its not flashy. Being a good healthy mobile, decent cardio, fit physique is nothing, yet its what all should likely strive for.

Big Think


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I think fat people content really is fat women content usually, just like how trans content is usually trans women content. So then when people rage-watch this content, it really makes me...wonder.

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the outcome is clear, women are worse at taking criticism and hearing or telling the truth.

society assumes fat men can take bullying and concerns about their health, just as society assumes a trans man can accept the more harsh criticism men receive as a result of being men.

gender is both a construct of social norms created from nothing, and also something we must observe and respect. its why the entire topic of gender is something i can never take serious, its all cherry picking things you're either forced to admit are biological while downplaying other aspects which may have biological cause. its silly. "gender isn't real or biological, but we're gonna pump you full of the hormones the other sex has so that you can feel like them, well you already think you are one of them but these will help. even though it's not biological." just a big cluster of contradictions.

in fact id give the entire trans rights movement a LOT more credence if their ideology was based on the idea that most of sex and gender are biological, and hormones are a mechanism to get people in line with that. but good fucking luck appeasing the genderfluid non-binary wolfkin.