Calling fat people obese is now considered hate speech

Obese is a medical term.

"She is not readying herself for a run in her shiny Nike gear. She cannot run. She is, more likely, pre-diabetic and on her way to a hip replacement. What terrible cynicism is this on the part of Nike?”

LOL, The Telegraph is right though. No lies were told.

Even fat people don’t want to see clothes like that on display. Ask me.

Obesity is defined as a BMI between 30 and 40. It’s a medical diagnosis.

Actually, I take back my ignorance. This could actually encourage obese people to work out. Its funny that these type of mannys are already common place in the Bible belt.

Obese pigs can't stand the truth. Lose your fat, bitches, for humanity's sake.

Roxane Gay works out 6 times a week??? LOL. have another donut, you angry ugly bitch.

I meant to say are NOT common place in the bible belt. My, my typos are on overdrive this morning.

Gotta say that this is a young person’s argument that is fundamentally about looks and self esteem. I’m now 51. Three years ago I started suffering symptoms of a crazy metabolic syndrome — always thirsty, peeing multiple times during night, complete exhaustion at end of work day, urine smelled funny, constant acid reflux, etc. I actually felt “good” about myself at my weight. Guys were into my “beefy” self. According to the fat acceptance movement I was good. Welp, the metabolic symptoms got to be too much for me. I lost 40 pounds. All my symptoms — every one of them — disappeared as I lost weight. Frankly, anyone my age KNOWS excess weight comes with adverse health and mobility consequences — knees hips etc. I do agree that the battle over obesity has been lost. The ONE consolation that those of us fighting the “bulge” have is that we will in fact not suffer the worse consequences of the western diet and immobility as we age. We will watch the obese continue to suffer from knee problems and GIRD and other health issues as we go on hikes go dancing and take fun adventures while the obese go to hospitals and sit home.

[quote]Calling fat people obese is now considered hate speech

Ok by me. I hate fat people.

How the hell are overweight people supposed to be able to work out in order to get more fit if there is no workout wear in their size?

What r11 said. In my Weight Watchers group women were praising Nike for doing this.

For all the fatties

[quote] I work out six days a week. I am fat

The food industry has convinced us all that all we have to do to get thin is to exercise.

The are far more calories in every bite of food than you will ever lose for exercising an hour a day.

You MUST reduce the amount of food you eat of you want to lose weight. PERIOD.

what r14. I'm in the navy and just came home from deployment. No fast food and processed food for 6 months. Everyone, including those who didn't work out, lost weight. There is something in American food making us fat coupled with eating & snacking too much.

my comment was agreeing with you r14 btw.

R14 It's a well known fact that when we Europeans move Stateside, we put on weight. Within 3 months I went from 160 to 180, and my waits from a 31 tp a 34 waist.

The portions are huge, food is cheap, sugar goes into everything.

I'm obese and I hesitate when I need to describe myself to someone, so they can pick me out in a crowd. I've used "fat", "person of weight", and "heavy". It seems silly to avoid the most obvious attribute. Then again, I stink like shit and I don't ask people to sniff me out in a crowd.

When you cunts talk about fat people, it IS hate speech. What else would you call it?

[quote] Roxane Gay: “I work out six days a week."

I think you'd better go up to seven.

You could also stop eating like a pig--that would help even more.

Exercise maven and gymrat Roxane Gay (she is the one on the left)

Is Roxane Gay the reincarnation of Andrea Dworkin?

R19, on the DL it is Fact Speech,

There are people who are "big boned" who are not fat, but will never be thin.

That's what I am! Big-boned!

I have no problem with this - the first thing people should be making for fat people is exercise gear and the last thing should be tube tops. At least they got somethign right.

Leg warmers?

[quote]There is something in American food making us fat coupled with eating & snacking too much.

There seems to be sugar added to everything. When I went on vacation to the USA I could taste the sugar in things like bread and salad, which really shouldn't have it. It's even in stuff like peanut butter!

eating when not hungry

How do fat women keep their pussies clean? Their asses? 💩🍊🤭

[quote] There seems to be sugar added to everything. When I went on vacation to the USA I could taste the sugar in things like bread and salad, which really shouldn't have it.

That's my problem! Too much salad!

Obesity, according to Waist-to-Height Ratio:

0.5770 for women

0.6330 for men

If some don't like the medical term obese, try the sesquipedalian euphemism "substantial risk increase." I don't know people's waist-to-height ratios, but if their shapes are anything like Trump's, I'd be comfortable labeling them as obese.

The people who know they're fat are fine with the word "fat." They don't need to be reminded with it though, they see themselves every day.

I don't exercise enough, and I am not fat. Exercise alone won't make the pounds drop off though.

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"Obesity, according to Waist-to-Height Ratio" means a lot of bodybuilders are "obese" then.

Oops. Make that “other people’s fat, ugliness, and looks.”

R19, THE TRUTH YOU DUMB BITCH!

r19 it's simply speech because hate speech does not exist.

It's been that way from the early 80s

I just got big bones

r34 Actually it's BMI that would make bodybuillders obese. Even those bulked up musclemen have nothing on the average girth of American men 50+.

Roxanne Gay tells nothing but lies.

If a grown adult was anorexic and weighed 90 pounds, people would be appalled. How is being obese any different? It's just on the opposite end of the spectrum. Both have issues with food.

I don't believe in "healthy at any size." Some excess weight is fine, but a person as huge as Roxane Gay cannot possibly be as healthy as she would be if she dropped a few hundred pounds, no matter how much she exercises. That said, it's stupid to complain about people being fat and then criticize manufacturers for making and displaying workout clothes that fat people can wear in the pursuit of becoming less fat. And that mannequin, if it were a real person, probably wouldn't be large enough to qualify medically as obese— overweight, obviously, but probably not obese.

I am just big boned

I'm just fine being a sphere.

R43 that gear is OBESE

[quote] 'The new mannequin is obese, and she is not readying herself for a run in her shiny Nike gear. She cannot run. She is, more likely, pre-diabetic and on her way to a hip replacement.

This is just stilly. I know people the size of that mannequin who are neither pre-diabetic nor on the way to a hip replacement. Some of them are even runners.

silly^

[quote] [R43] that gear is OBESE

Uh, sure, other than the fact that clothes can't be obese.

[quote]She is immense, gargantuan, vast. She heaves with fat.

She knows whereof she speaks.

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I remember reading comments on an article where Drew Barrymore was discussing her decision to lose weight and get healthy as well as pictures of her exercising and there were a lot of comments accusing her of being "fatphobic" and a bigot for deciding to lose weight. It was absolutely shocking. Some people are insane (and fat).

I need Americans to explain to me how metabolic disorder isn't a problem, and people should enjoy their out-of-proportion bodies because apparently everyone wants to look like Agent Orange or they think cutting down on the high fructose corn syrup and denatured grain snack products would crush America's agriculture.

In other countries people have diabetes, failing kidneys, knee problems, strokes and heart attacks and meanwhile in the Land of the Free 1/3 of the population are on their way to being their own planet.

Agreed, r52. Do as you wish with your own body, but you've got no business freaking out when other people make different choices about theirs.

Obesity correlates with depression, anxiety, and childhood trauma. 85% of people who go for gastric bypass consultations have depression and anxiety disorders. 90% of those who actually have the surgery are on psych meds for depression and anxiety. Over 70% of people on My 600lb Life were sexually abused as children. Roxanne Gay was raped when she was about 12 years old.

This thread is next to the Krispy Kreme thread, figures!

You shouldn’t be cruel to someone for kicks and I agree that random commenters expressing faux “health concern” on someone’s social media don’t give half a shit about the poster’s health —-

However, that doesn’t mean we should pretend being overweight has no consequences. Instead of raging against people who eat moderately and stay fit, put that energy into raging against food makers and maybe throw in encouraging less sitting at work, get kids outside.

It’s only getting worse and it isn’t because people years ago were “secretly fat on the inside and are now proud enough to live their truth.” 30 years ago, there was usually one “fat kid” in the entire elementary school, at most, one per grade. Today, at least 1/3 of the school is overweight.

Overweight people and overly PC people should get mad, but not at people calling a spade a spade. They should rage over shit like this new “salad frosting” targeted to kids (ranch is trash and you’re better off skipping the veggies if you coat them in it). They should rage over the additives and fillers and trash in the food that promotes addiction. They should work to make sure communities have safe, grass areas for play.

There’s a lot to be mad about. A lot more than someone said it’s better for your health to lose some weight.

Roxane Gay is so enormous, I find it hard to believe she can walk more than a city block without getting winded. She's also old enough that she surely has mega issues with her joints due to weight + age. I'd love to know what these "workouts" are.

R34

They're not healthy either, especially not the guy in the foreground who's used so much HGH, he has a beer gut from visceral fat.

People are saying that Nike is trying to encourage fat people to get fit. It doesn't help that Miss Gold is a recovering messy drunk.

Why are Koreans and other Asians so slim ? I didn’t encounter any fat Koreans when I was there. Honestly.

[quote]However, that doesn’t mean we should pretend being overweight has no consequences. Instead of raging against people who eat moderately and stay fit, put that energy into raging against food makers and maybe throw in encouraging less sitting at work, get kids outside.

There are a whole lot of people on this thread who need to put their energy into something else. All the shit going on in the world and THIS is what has some of you so enraged I can see your bulging forehead veins from here? No wonder we're totally fucked in this country.

I’ve met a lot of really fat Koreans.

I'd like to see one of these "workouts" Roxane Gay does six days a week. That said, with so many larger sized individuals around these days, why wouldn't Nike aim some products at that market? If it encourages more activity for people struggling with their weight, that's a bonus.

The lardtards have gathered on this thread!

R62 In US maybe

Do people really think that if exercise wear for fat people is available - what? It will encourage them to be fat? They are already fat. It will let them know that clothes for fat people is available? So you'd rather they go nude?

It makes no sense.

Wire the jaws for 6 months, diet of vitamins water and fruit with cheese. Daily exercise, halter around the head if necessary and led at a trot by a car.

Anyone have the link to the OP? It’s removed since the post is crossed out. I want to know what this thread is referring to.

It's hate speech!

I have the right to call them "Fat Fucks" if the word fits

Everyone in this vile thread needs to read up on Health at Every Size. Most people of size dont actually eat more than thin people. It is simply impossible for them to lose weight. And I have seen a 345 pound woman bench press more than most men, then run a half marathon. She is a strict vegan, by the way. And she pulls more fine cock than any other woman I know. Straight men love big curvy women.

^Look at R71's All-Purpose Fatty Troll Post.

[quote]Do people really think that if exercise wear for fat people is available - what? It will encourage them to be fat?

I believe the concern is that it will encourage people to think that displaying and having an egregious amount of fat in public is acceptable. Propriety requires that obesity be covered with loose fitting drapery.

What is the current trend re: FUPAs? Are they considered desirable now, more than in the past? I know stomach rolls are more accepted and embraced these days.