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CMV: Stop Normalizing “Big is Beautiful”

I’m not talking about being a little overweight. I’m talking about people telling 300lb plus people they’re beautiful or they’re an inspiration. I remember over the summer a morbidly obese woman was on the cover of cosmo.

I get it, everyone just wants to feel comfortable in their own bodies and be told they’re perfect the way they are, but doing so is doing a disservice to people with a serious addiction.

If someone is addicted to heroin we shame them, if someone is addicted to cigarettes we shame them, but if you’re morbidly obese and addicted to food it’s okay, you’re beautiful just the way you are.

You’re killing yourself just the same way. I don’t care if it’s hard because “you have to eat and once you start you can’t stop.” Getting off of any addiction sucks, but it’s necessary if you want to be healthy.

There’s ways around it. Intermediate fasting (eating only for 7-8 hours a day), meal prepping correctly portioned meals, not buying any junk food, even just walking around your neighborhood a couple times a day could do wonders. 

But telling people how great they are as they’re killing themselves isn’t doing them any good. Obesity in America is an epidemic right now and the normalization of “everyone is beautiful” is a big reason why. It’s they’re choice to do what they want with their bodies, but society shouldn’t be promoters of it.
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>I remember over the summer a morbidly obese woman was on the cover of cosmo

Okay. There are plenty of aesthetic choices I’d prefer not to see on the cover of cosmo, but you seem to have a far more severe opinion about a perceived harm from this.

>doing so is doing a disservice to people with a serious addiction

I’m going to hazard a guess that you don’t have much experience with addiction, because it sounds like you think the treatment for addiction is to tell the addict that they suck.

We don’t typically promote alcoholics as being cool (though goddamn the number of aspiring creative types who deify Hemingway), but we *do* try to destigmatize addiction. The first of the twelve steps isn’t “publicly declare yourself a piece of garbage.”

>If someone is addicted to heroin we shame them, if someone is addicted to cigarettes we shame them

No, we don’t. And if you *do*, you should knock it off. Because you’re not helping that person, you’re just making yourself feel good. There’s a common misconception about the need for some tough love and harsh criticism to make someone see they have a problem. Talk to a psychologist, especially one specializing in addiction, because they won’t advocate that.

>meal prepping correctly portioned meals, not buying any junk food

If you really think that it’s an addiction this is a bit like saying “there’s a way around being addicted to cocaine, stop buying cocaine.”

>Obesity in America is an epidemic right now and the normalization of “everyone is beautiful” is a big reason why.

If you want, we can do a deep dive for the first widespread instance of “big is beautiful”, or “everyone is beautiful” (in relation to weight), or any other synonymous phrase. Would it change your view if the rise in obesity predates the mainstream use of those phrases?

>It’s they’re choice

Addicts do not choose to be addicted. Again, seriously, talk to someone who treats addiction. Because right now you have a concerning combination of “not knowing the right way to approach addicts to encourage them to get treated” and “thinking you know how to approach addicts to encourage recovery.”