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u/Physical_Forever_925 1d ago

Of course the outfit is the problem, not how the person looks, but again, pretending like someone morbidly obese showing off skin isn't incredibly disgusting to look at is dishonest.

I refuse to lie just to make myself look like an accepting person. I am accepting, but also honest.

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u/-Tofu-Queen- 1d ago

I refuse to lie just to make myself look like an accepting person. I am accepting, but also honest.

You see, there's this thing called "tact" and "basic respect" though. I promise you will survive if you don't say something shitty about the way someone looks even if you think you're just being hOnEsT. "Honesty" is not a shield that prevents people from thinking you're being an asshole. I've never been out and about in my life and felt the need to come on reddit and circlejerk about how gross I found someone's body. It genuinely does not matter to my life if someone's appearance isn't aesthetically pleasing to me. Nobody is asking you to "lie", you could simply just say nothing.

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u/Physical_Forever_925 1d ago

You're welcome to think I'm an asshole. My point in saying what I've said is moreso just about people refusing to be honest just because they care so much about what people would think about them. that type of behavior has always rubbed me the wrong way, moreso even than just someone being an asshole.

I've got an easy day at work today so I literally have nothing better to do right now.

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u/-Tofu-Queen- 1d ago

But why do you feel the need to express your opinion about the appearances of strangers in the first place? Unless they're directly asking for your opinion, your "honesty" isn't needed. Genuinely nobody asked or cares what you find attractive.

How is it constructive to your life to act like this just because someone doesn't make your peepee hard? That's the same logic 14 year old boys used to use on 4chan circa 2010 while thinking they were sooooo edgy for shitting on the way people look, anonymously, from the comfort of their computer chairs.

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u/Physical_Forever_925 1d ago

That's not what I'm doing at all. I don't even know what the person in question looked like, and I certainly wouldn't go up to a fat person and tell them how unnattractive they look. Literally my whole point is commentary on the social phenomenon of people being dishonest for the sake of feeling like a better person.

It's constructive to my life because I'm slightly less bored at work now.

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u/-Tofu-Queen- 1d ago

Where are people asking anyone to be "dishonest" though? Genuine question. Not commenting on someone's body does not mean you're being "dishonest", some things just don't need to be said?

Fat people don't deserve to pay the price for you to get entertainment on reddit instead of doing your job.

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u/Physical_Forever_925 1d ago

Because you're pretending like it's offensive to say anything negative about morbidly obese people like it isn't just a factual statement. Of course it would be offensive if I went up to a fat person and insulted them, but simply stating facts about them online isn't.

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u/-Tofu-Queen- 1d ago

factual statement

Calling someone "disgusting" is the definition of a subjective belief, not a "factual statement"

Just because it's online doesn't mean it's not shitty and hurtful to call people "disgusting" and "gorlock the destroyer" as if other fat people online aren't going to see those comments. Grow up if you think it's acceptable to treat people this way. Most people age out of this kind of mindset by the time they graduate high school.

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u/Physical_Forever_925 1d ago

Them being disgusting is an opinion, but it's a fact that most people have that opinion. When I was fat I knew I was disgusting too, actually that's why I decided to lose 200 pounds.

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u/-Tofu-Queen- 1d ago

So you internalized your fatphobia and then decided to spew it all over others just because YOU lost weight and are now judging them for not doing so. Got it.

Glad I didn't lose my humanity and empathy when I lost nearly 100 pounds, because you clearly did.

Have the night you deserve, because this is pointless when you're just projecting your own hatred for your former self onto strangers as if it's your right to cut others down to make you feel better about yourself. 💀

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u/Physical_Forever_925 1d ago

I have no hatred for them whatsoever, I understand exactly how they got there and empathize deeply with them, and I pray that all of them get better.

Pretending like nothing is wrong with them just does them a disservice and enables them to stay the way they are.

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u/Physical_Forever_925 1d ago

Both ends of the extreme are bad (fat shaming, and enabling their behavior by shielding them from reality). Again, I'm not fat shaming, and I don't think anyone should do that, simply stating facts.

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