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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: For half a century, smoking was advertised as empowering to women. Many bought in and died for it. Now, acceptance of obesity is being promoted as empowering to women, and heart disease is a leading cause of death. There are obvious parallels here.
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Let's be real. No one actually sees being fat as empowering. No one actually wants to be fat.

Smoking can look hot. Seductive. It is naughty. Some claim to be extremely repulsed by the smell now, but it used to be standard before all health concerns and it certainly didn't affect one's looks. By girls joining what used to be a guy's thing here they did seem empowered and sexy, playing with fire, blowing smoke. 


No one portrays being fat in this way. It's the other way around.  since there are many obese people out there, miserable fat people who would guaranteed prefer not to be fat but just can't do what it takes, fat empowerment is some weak comfort and rationalization. It's fat people saying to each other not to feel bad and that they can still be empowered, but that's all it is. Everyone knows that's all it is. Comfort when the damage is already done. 

There used to be glamor in smoking, there was never glamor in being fat.