Dated a Jamaican woman back in the day, 5’10", maybe 110lbs, perfectly healthy, did nothing to keep her weight down. People can be fine looking like this model.
This story seems so odd to me, like crazy overreach in service of a fine goal. Meh, what do I know. Fat people were rare when I was young. What’s now considered “skinny” was perfectly normal in the last century.
In the early 1960s, roughly 13% of people were considered obese by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. Recent figures suggest that a current national obesity rate closer to 43%.
In addition, nearly 10% of all Americans were morbidly obese during the 2017–2018 survey, compared to less than 1% in 1960–1962. Childhood obesity rates tripled from 5% in the early 1970s to more than 19% by March 2020.
I used to be similar to your ex, and stuff like in this post is why I wore a t-shirt to the pool until I was like 20. Not saying I had it as bad as a fat person, but body shaming the other end of the spectrum ain’t it either.
LOL, think you misread me or misstated. You were tall and thin as a rail but had to hide that at the pool? 😆
I do not wish to shame anyone. I merely want to scream to the heavens that where we are at is not normal or sane.
What if the same stats showed such a rise in alcoholism? Wouldn’t we find that to be a major problem? Wouldn’t we be questioning the impact on societal health? Wouldn’t we be questioning the impact on all of our medical systems?
Here’s NYC in the 1900s. Spot the fat people. No one is going to tell me those people were suffering starvation. They had plenty of other problems, but that seems like a thriving society to me.
We can talk all day long about why they were normal sized. We can talk all day about why everyone’s fat now days. We need to talk about BOTH.
Dated a Jamaican woman back in the day, 5’10", maybe 110lbs, perfectly healthy, did nothing to keep her weight down. People can be fine looking like this model.
This story seems so odd to me, like crazy overreach in service of a fine goal. Meh, what do I know. Fat people were rare when I was young. What’s now considered “skinny” was perfectly normal in the last century.
https://usafacts.org/articles/obesity-rate-nearly-triples-united-states-over-last-50-years/
I used to be similar to your ex, and stuff like in this post is why I wore a t-shirt to the pool until I was like 20. Not saying I had it as bad as a fat person, but body shaming the other end of the spectrum ain’t it either.
LOL, think you misread me or misstated. You were tall and thin as a rail but had to hide that at the pool? 😆
I do not wish to shame anyone. I merely want to scream to the heavens that where we are at is not normal or sane.
What if the same stats showed such a rise in alcoholism? Wouldn’t we find that to be a major problem? Wouldn’t we be questioning the impact on societal health? Wouldn’t we be questioning the impact on all of our medical systems?
Here’s NYC in the 1900s. Spot the fat people. No one is going to tell me those people were suffering starvation. They had plenty of other problems, but that seems like a thriving society to me.
We can talk all day long about why they were normal sized. We can talk all day about why everyone’s fat now days. We need to talk about BOTH.
Is anyone surprised? That’s their MO.
LOL, the cops over there all proud of their pocket knife angel.