dblbellybhm
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After watching the Bruce Jenner interview on his transition and some news reports of younger transgender children, I began to wonder what is the resistance to fat acceptance. In the past 35 years, even following the aids panic of the 1980's, homosexuality is now accepted by the majority of Americans as a genetically determined issue and a lifestyle. Yes, there are some who still maintain that this is purely a behavioral choice, but no longer the majority. The transgender community is now being recognized as a real gender identity conflict as young children are able to express at an early age their conflict with their physical gender vs their mental/emotional gender.
But with fatness there is no understanding of the fact that some fat people prefer being fat. There is no acceptance or understanding that for some this may be akin to a genetic predisposition. Not a predisposition to produce fat cells but a mental/emotional view of oneself as a fat person. Fat people are often said to be suffering from an emotional confilct or an attempt to wall themselves off/protect themselves with their fat. Given the wide range of human variability and diversity this may be so for some. Why is is so hard to understand and accept that some, myself included, like/prefer being fat and have felt that way for their entire lifetime? Why is fatness fodder for psychoanalysis? Why is fat/fatness considered a fetish? Homosexuality and transgenderism seems to have left that label far behind. Why is fat still a taboo?
I'm not saying that there is equivalency among these issues but rather certain common elements.
Don't have the answer but just wondering about this in light of the growing understanding of transgenderism.
But with fatness there is no understanding of the fact that some fat people prefer being fat. There is no acceptance or understanding that for some this may be akin to a genetic predisposition. Not a predisposition to produce fat cells but a mental/emotional view of oneself as a fat person. Fat people are often said to be suffering from an emotional confilct or an attempt to wall themselves off/protect themselves with their fat. Given the wide range of human variability and diversity this may be so for some. Why is is so hard to understand and accept that some, myself included, like/prefer being fat and have felt that way for their entire lifetime? Why is fatness fodder for psychoanalysis? Why is fat/fatness considered a fetish? Homosexuality and transgenderism seems to have left that label far behind. Why is fat still a taboo?
I'm not saying that there is equivalency among these issues but rather certain common elements.
Don't have the answer but just wondering about this in light of the growing understanding of transgenderism.
