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Agreed. I'm down for being empathetic to fat people - as a fat person! - but I have never understood the movement to just deny reality and act like it's acceptable to be fat from a health perspective. Obviously fat people should still have access to healthcare, but putting our heads in the sand and pretending that it isn't a situation that has huge impact on our quality of life and lifespan has always struck me as absurd.