Hello Lovely People,
It's your homeboy 'Fatty Acid' aka Nikhil here.
While, we tend to show sympathy towards a particular block of society, why do we think it's Okay to make fun of overweight people?
How easily we address our overweight friend as Fatty, Fatso, Jadya, Potato etc. Harassing and bullying him gives us immense pleasure, ins't it? Guys, we can't even imagine what he goes through in his daily life. When our biology teacher was teaching us obesity, the entire class wasted no time in looking at our fat classmate mockingly, in a meeting, our manager says, 'Let's address the elephant in the room' and we all stare and wink at our obese colleague, an auto-rickshaw driver doesn't allow him to sit in front, as soon as he touches a T-Shirt, the shopkeeper denies having his size. There are numerous such small things which leaves him depressed and shatters his self-confidence completely.
Did we even know that obesity is a medical condition? How easily we attach fatness to food and over eating. We, the predators who mock the obese mustn't forget that stress, illness, life saving drugs, diseases like diabetes lead to weight gain too. Why am I even justifying? Even if over eating was the reason, torturing overweight people is an unacceptable form of bigotry.
So one may say, we call them fat because that's what they are, what's wrong in that? Okay, then going by the same logic will it be cool if people start addressing us as 'Ugly', 'Poor' or 'Unsuccessful'. Wouldn't that be funny too, No?
Make no mistake, nobody is advocating to stay fat here. It's absolutely necessary to maintain a healthy weight, eat clean and exercise, but there are a better ways of motivating. A person who truly cares, will pull you up and not push down deeper, simple as that. Next time we meet a fat guy, he doesn't deserve to be ridiculed and ain't a loser by any means, must be remembered.
It's your homeboy 'Fatty Acid' aka Nikhil here.
While, we tend to show sympathy towards a particular block of society, why do we think it's Okay to make fun of overweight people?
How easily we address our overweight friend as Fatty, Fatso, Jadya, Potato etc. Harassing and bullying him gives us immense pleasure, ins't it? Guys, we can't even imagine what he goes through in his daily life. When our biology teacher was teaching us obesity, the entire class wasted no time in looking at our fat classmate mockingly, in a meeting, our manager says, 'Let's address the elephant in the room' and we all stare and wink at our obese colleague, an auto-rickshaw driver doesn't allow him to sit in front, as soon as he touches a T-Shirt, the shopkeeper denies having his size. There are numerous such small things which leaves him depressed and shatters his self-confidence completely.
Did we even know that obesity is a medical condition? How easily we attach fatness to food and over eating. We, the predators who mock the obese mustn't forget that stress, illness, life saving drugs, diseases like diabetes lead to weight gain too. Why am I even justifying? Even if over eating was the reason, torturing overweight people is an unacceptable form of bigotry.
So one may say, we call them fat because that's what they are, what's wrong in that? Okay, then going by the same logic will it be cool if people start addressing us as 'Ugly', 'Poor' or 'Unsuccessful'. Wouldn't that be funny too, No?
Make no mistake, nobody is advocating to stay fat here. It's absolutely necessary to maintain a healthy weight, eat clean and exercise, but there are a better ways of motivating. A person who truly cares, will pull you up and not push down deeper, simple as that. Next time we meet a fat guy, he doesn't deserve to be ridiculed and ain't a loser by any means, must be remembered.
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