Remember my post about the artile asking the question, ‘what if no American was fat?’ (Here’s a refresher)? Well, Leah Day at ChetDay.com put together a thought-provoking response to the original writer’s possibly discriminatory subject. Here is an excerpt:

Yes, you have to eat to be fat. A lot of people believe fat people are just big, stupid cookie monsters with no soul. We laugh at them and shake our heads at their ungainly strides, never considering what it must be like to live a day in their shoes.

Truth of the matter is, it’s very hard to change eating and lifestyle habits and it’s even harder to alter your metabolism if that’s the way it’s operated for more than half your life. Most fat people have yo-yo dieted for years without any success and it’s their self-esteem that pays the price.

Try not eating sugar for a week and see how far you get. Read your ingredient labels and don’t eat even 1 gram of sugar. I bet you can’t do it because you’ve never had to watch what you eat. Fat people are constantly watching, morbidly obsessed with losing weight because they live in a society that has shouted negativity at them from the day they got chubby.

I find it really interesting that MSN doesn’t write articles “What if we had no welfare?” or “What if oil companies actually had to pay taxes?” or even better “What if all major corporations were forced to disband?” Let’s start measuring the social and economic costs of welfare and what a drain that is on our country. Better yet, let’s start actually holding our oil companies accountable for their disgusting profits at the expense of American drivers.

The entire piece (or rebuttal if you will) offers a refreshingly open and accepting point of view while leaving room to question authority (which is usually a good idea). Check it out for yourself.


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