I didn't even know fatphobia was a word now widely used in the PC sphere until a few days ago.
I don't know what it really means except the literal meaning which is phobic to fat.
One should be phobic to fat for the sake of your body, but I think this word implies to people who make fun of fat people and not tolerant of their weight etc etc.
I've been giving it some thought and though I'm not the one to make fun of fat people nor does it occur to me to make fun except get a bit worried about morbidly obese people and wonder when their next angiography is scheduled, I do know better than to say something that might not sit well on them.
Having said that, and I was trying to remember, recollect if I had any fat friends ever, and come to think of it I didn't.
Not as a child at school ever, well, maybe a friend but she was not what you'd call fat, and I gave it some more thought wondering why.
I realized that I was an extremely active child. Both at school and as I grew up right until now even, though I'm no child, and I used to always play a lot of games back at school, my favourite one being ring which was physically taxing because it was about catching and throwing and aiming at different teams to kill someone with a rubber ring, but the point is that all my friends were those whom I always played a lot with and fat kids as a rule didn't much play and so I ended up not being too friendly with those who didn't join me during free periods to play and run and climb things.
So yes, I didn't have any fat friends but I have plenty fat cousins and though I'm often asked to talk to them about their burgeoning weight by their worrying parents I never bring up these topics with them because why should I?
I mean I'll give an opinion or advice only if I'm asked..so, shove your face in that cake a little more and hear me say nothing.
I don't know about fatphobia but one should be phobic to fat, and I mean the kind of fat that can push you towards the diabetic side of things and it's no good making fun of fat people either because that helps no one, having said that people have elevated this issue to the likes of racism and it's not.
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