Fat People: Disgust and Social Stigma
09-23-2017
, 02:26 AM
Have you noticed how all the fatty models the media have been trying to push still have traditionally attractive features? They have overweight, if not downright fat bodies, but their facial features and everything else about them is still very traditionally 'attractive'
Why isn't there a big social movement to declare this woman attractive?
Why is judging someone's fat body unattractive somehow worse or different than thinking someone's crooked nose or screwed up eyes are unattractive?
The ironic thing of course, is that if anything you should feel more sympathy for the person with unattractive features, as they were indeed born that way. Fat people deserve even worse scorn because almost all of them have brought their attractiveness upon themselves.
Despite what some people seem to believe, what people find physically attractive is driven far more by biology and evolution than arbitrary societal conventions. The societal conventions are largely just a manifestation of innate biological preferences.
Infants react far more positively to "attractive" faces than "unattractive" ones, for example.
There has been a **** ton of science done over the past few hundred years regarding physical beauty and physical attractiveness.
Of course science is the last thing fatties want to talk about anyway.
Why isn't there a big social movement to declare this woman attractive?
Why is judging someone's fat body unattractive somehow worse or different than thinking someone's crooked nose or screwed up eyes are unattractive?
The ironic thing of course, is that if anything you should feel more sympathy for the person with unattractive features, as they were indeed born that way. Fat people deserve even worse scorn because almost all of them have brought their attractiveness upon themselves.
Despite what some people seem to believe, what people find physically attractive is driven far more by biology and evolution than arbitrary societal conventions. The societal conventions are largely just a manifestation of innate biological preferences.
Infants react far more positively to "attractive" faces than "unattractive" ones, for example.
There has been a **** ton of science done over the past few hundred years regarding physical beauty and physical attractiveness.
Of course science is the last thing fatties want to talk about anyway.
09-23-2017
, 02:36 AM
09-23-2017
, 03:12 AM
09-23-2017
, 09:50 AM
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Fat people are looked down upon in our culture. There's a strong social stigma attached to being obese. In fact I have a hard time thinking of something that's more looked down upon, maybe being homeless or very poor.
My parents, secular bleeding heart saints in many ways, have sneering disgust for fat people. Their lives are pretty much built on liberal tolerance, but they sure don't tolerate the fatties!
Do you hate the fatties? Do you feel disgusted by them? Do you choose to not associate with people who are overweight? Do you think they have poor character because of their heftiness?
It's funny that the foreigners often stereotype Americans as all being fat, but we Americans know that only the poor ignorant underclass Walmart shoppers among us are really fat.
My parents, secular bleeding heart saints in many ways, have sneering disgust for fat people. Their lives are pretty much built on liberal tolerance, but they sure don't tolerate the fatties!
Do you hate the fatties? Do you feel disgusted by them? Do you choose to not associate with people who are overweight? Do you think they have poor character because of their heftiness?
It's funny that the foreigners often stereotype Americans as all being fat, but we Americans know that only the poor ignorant underclass Walmart shoppers among us are really fat.
09-23-2017
, 09:55 AM
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Why modern society has deemed post-pubescent teenagers as off-limits sexually is an entirely separate discussion of course. It is certainly way more of a societal construct than anything rooted in biology. Plenty of men still find 15-17 year old girls quite attractive as they always have and always will. It's just something modern society has now deemed out of bounds for a lot of reasons, most of them valid.
09-24-2017
, 12:42 AM
If people thought it was honestly "sick" or "wrong" to be attracted to 16-17 year old girls, that stuff wouldn't exist in the mainstream.
So instead we have this sort of emperor's new clothes situation, where everyone sorta knows that 15-17 year old girls can be sexually attractive, however you're not supposed to talk about it and people will feign outrage if you do, even though they also know it to be true.
Relating this back to fatties, the same situation could occur there eventually. It may one day become a huge societal taboo to openly disparage a fat person and everyone may have to pretend they aren't put off by it, but the biological/evolutionary "ewww" will still be in your brain.
