“You owe thinness to nobody” is a mantra sung by many fat activists on social media.
They keep saying “thinness” as though fat and skinny are the only two ways to exist.
This binary thinking could be their subconscious way of skirting the real issue: You owe a healthy fit body; one that is not weighed down by piles of body fat.
But somehow, these “fat positivity” personalities on Instagram and TikTik have twisted things up, believing that the absence of obesity is always thinness. No middle ground exists in their minds.
I doubt that the parents of any of these 300+ pound influencers kept nagging them throughout their childhood to get twiggy thin.
Frankly, I’m tired of seeing “You don’t owe thinness to anyone” in their posts.
You can tell me to stop reading the posts. But they’re like a train wreck; I have to look.
Plus, I’ve gotten many article ideas from these wayward influencers.
But the mantra, “You don’t owe thinness to anybody,” is a very weak one at best, quite non-compelling, quite non-innovative, very unconvincing.
The reality is that fat people aren’t told to get thin. They’re told to lose weight.
You actually don’t owe thinness to anyone; you owe a healthy, fit and strong body.
And to whom do you owe a healthy, highly mobile, energy-packed body?
- Your kiddos!
- Your spouse
- Your parents
- Your close friends
- And all other loved-ones!
There’s an influencer on Instagram who has four kids in grade school. At the rate her 300+ body is deteriorating (she’s perhaps 5’2), her youngest two kids will likely be wiping her (fill in the blank) before they graduate from high school.
In fact, this influencer has already posted about bringing a small bidet with her to public restrooms so that she could hook it to a toilet and spray herself down there with water because she can’t reach her hands to clean herself after a bowel movement.
At some point, she’s going to be struggling to do this (she’s 42, and morbid obesity becomes exponentially more relevant as one heads into late middle age).
So who’s going to help her clean herself? She and those who support this harmful lifestyle owe a healthy, fit and strong body to their loved-ones. That doesn’t mean thinness.
Stop it already with that foolish mantra.
The children of these delusional influencers are not going to have their moms around in their later adulthood.
Or if they do, their time together will be primarily driving to doctor appointments, discussing the latest care plan with their doctors, taking them to the pharmacy, helping them choose a stylish cane, bringing them their slippers and other things that they should be healthy enough to fetch themselves, etc.
The influencer I mentioned recently posted that she couldn’t fit into a seat at a theatre to watch Hamilton with her two young daughters (who are alarmingly overweight).
She spent the entire show in the lobby staring at the staircase leading up to the seating area. She can’t even join her kids for a show because of her size.
It’s so much easier to blame all of this on the theatre not having enough accommodating seats, isn’t it?
She doesn’t owe her kids thinness. She owes them a medically acceptable body weight.
