Listen you fat assed bitch.

[ShazzieB]

33. Thanks for starting this thread.

I'm with you: Down with fat shaming of ANYBODY, including TFG (because double standards are a very bad thing).

People seem to think it's somehow okay to make fun of someone's size/weight, because we've all been bombarded in this society with the idea that being fat is completely voluntary and controlled 100% by our personal choices, and that losing weight is a "simple" matter of self-control. At the same time, we've also been bombarded by the idea that fat (any amount) = a very, very bad thing. Put those two ideas together and what you get is a lot of toxic attitudes about fatness and fat people. After all, if fat is very, very bad, and being thin is easy (both erroneous ideas, of course), then fat people must be making a deliberate choice to be that way, and that means they must be really, really bad people, right? (WRONG, but that's how a lot of people think).

It sucks, and I wish it would stop, in general, but especially here at DU. Sure, TFG is fat, but so what? That is not what makes him a horrible human being and it's not what made him a terrible president.

My state currently has a Democratic governor, JB Pritzker, who is obese. The guy is probably fatter than TFG. He's also doing a fantastic job as our governor, and his size is completely beside the point. If he suddenly lost 200 lbs., would he be an even better governor? Hell, no. He'd still be the same decent, principled person and the same excellent governor that he is right now.

TFG was one of the worst presidents in the history of this country, and HIS size is completely beside the point as well. If he had slimmed down while he was potus, would he suddenly have been transformed into a competent, ethical leader? Don't make me laugh! Fat or thin, he would still have all the same character flaws that made him such a shitty potus. His weight has absolutely NO RELEVANCE to his qualities as a human being or his ability to run the country.

Fat shaming of politicians (or anyone else) here at DU really needs to stop. I know it's not going to happen, short of making much stricter rules about what we're allowed to say here, but I really, REALLY, REALLY wish it would.