Self magazine promotes obesity as the future of fitness
“Self's first issue of 2022 looks so on the nose, so perfectly representative of all of the foibles of wokeness that you might at first think it's some kind of intentional self parody. And it is self parody, but it's just not intentional. As you can see on the cover here, it features an obese woman in spandex, along with the headline, The Future of Fitness. And one wonders if the next issue will have a picture of a square with the headline, The Future of Circles, or the number five with the headline, The Future of 2 Plus 2.”
New PC terms rebrand fat as larger bodied exercisers
“Please note the updated PC lingo here. A fat guy at the gym is no longer a fat guy at the gym. He is now a larger bodied exerciser. If all of this doesn't sound inane enough, then how about this headline? Six things fitness instructors should do to become a better fat ally. End quote, seven seemingly empowering body positive phrases that actually reinforce ableism. And then my favorite, seven ways to repair your relationship with movement.”
Fat acceptance is a morally perverse form of hatred
“To love someone is to will their good. That is to help them towards what is good for them. But if you're helping them towards degradation, despair and destruction, that's hatred or at least indifference. This is also why obesity is not an identity. It's the erasure of identity, both because it will kill you, I mean, literally erasing you physically from existence, and also because it covers the defining parts of you.”
Obesity erases physical identity and masks feminine beauty
“It will always be absurd to claim that a morbidly obese woman is physically beautiful. She's not, because her feminine features are covered in lard. I mean, you may as well say someone is most beautiful when they have a blanket over their heads. Beautiful in this context is a description of physical features, but morbid obesity overtakes all of your physical features, covers and destroys them so that when you call a morbidly obese person physically beautiful, you must be describing the obesity itself as beautiful, which is to say that destruction and sickness are beautiful.”
Subjective truth leads to dangerous individual narcissism
“In a world where the ego is king, the job of everyone around you is to reinforce how you perceive yourself or how you at least want to perceive yourself, because you shouldn't have to conform yourself to any outside reality. There's no truth greater than your truth, your will, your ego. So if you want to feel healthy and beautiful as everybody does, then society must simply declare that you are both of those things. It would be an act of unthinkable oppression for anyone to tell you that, though you want to be those things, you're not.”
