Let’s Talk – The Consequences of having a Thin World (TW: Eating Disorder Mention, Healthism, Abelism)

A desire to be thin – Many fat people’s dreams all over the world. But not a dream you would naturally discover as you go through life; rather, a dream you’re basically forced to achieve because of everyone around you. But let’s assume this so-called threat of fat people existing which YOU as the public chose to call an ‘obesity epidemic’ ceased to exist. What would our world be like that purely consists of thin and average-sized people have to suffer?

The first: Disordered Eating and Worser Health.

With the world today continuously pressuring us to NOT become fat, or if we are, pressuring us to be thin, what can you expect for those growing up as a child into teen and adulthood? When we become exposed to fatphobic media, whether it’s the depiction of Arthur in the titular character’s kid series in an episode where body image is raised, or a fat character being mocked or made insecure in a book, it impacts them too. Sure, not everyone is sensitive like that, but depending on how they grew up with their family and relatives, or how they grew up in primary and high school, it can lead to negative eating impacts. And high school health classes can definitely be guilty of promoting that when talking about fat people and health. Whether it’s about health plainly or regarding food as either ‘healthy’ or ‘unhealthy’, it’s damaging for many.

While I’m not a ED survivor or anything myself, my understanding of it involves a person with an ED not eating literally anything or anything with average-high calories because of the fear of becoming fat. And it’s dangerous for those who are at a relatively low weight because of an eating disorder. And even if overcoming an ED succeeds, there are people who prefer a person who is recovering or has recovered that they’d prefer them to be thin and ‘healthy’ instead of ‘fat and unhealthy’. From my understanding, going three to four sizes up as part of an ED recovery would be essential if anyone needs to strengthen their relationship with food and their body. Even some sex workers who do feederism have possibly came out of an ED themselves.

Also it comes down to diet culture as well: When we’re told about diets people took to lose weight, we are under the impression it’s permanent. Although there’s been no data regarding if the permanent loss is true, it doesn’t change the facts that 95% of diets and intentional weight loss have been proven ineffective. What’s more, people who attempted to diet and lose weight have ended up regaining the weight they lost in five or more years time. Anyone who never regained the weight however, would likely end up with an ED themselves.

And the yoyo effect from weight loss and regain is much worse than gaining weight itself. One could say that’s how Carrie Fisher died given she was needed to lose weight for newer movies (Force Awakens onwards), but it’s not her fault.

So you get the idea that eating disorders came from attempted weight loss and diets or from earlier in life being exposed to media and bullying which makes people feared of being fat. But that’s not the only consequence that the world will carry in the future if only the ‘socially accepted’ bodies lived on.

Which brings us to the second consequence: Higher Unemployment Rates because of no Fast Food Industry.

Or ‘junk food’, or ‘unhealthy’ food, as some call it. With the world going about with a healthism attitude (basically that ‘health is number one priority in life’), they discourage the consumption of these types of foods because of how bad they would be for your health, and obviously promoting the fears of being fat. If the world were to indeed be consisting only of those with a socially accepted body, some would suggest the elimination of fast food industries altogether would be a means to achieve that.

However, aside from the downside of the variety of delicious food gone (or disgusting depending on your preferences), how would people out there be able to find jobs? If the food industry is out of the picture (i.e. no McDonalds, no soft drinks, no takeouts), job unemployment rates would more than likely increase. And it makes competitions in the other industries much tougher as well. Even those doing sex work in the feederism category would not be able to do their work well either, as well as fat people who need a number of calories to sustain their bodies so they don’t run into health issues (i.e. starvation is bad). If robots start taking over jobs in the future…

Also, we just cannot rely on low-calorie ‘healthy’ foods everyday; food is food, so we need to eat up until we’re full.

The third consequence is self-explanatory: The concept of diversity will be lost.

We were all born different, and that includes body images as well. So if we as a society end up doing some seriously fucked up plan to somehow get rid of fat people with either some machine to make them thin in a flash or to instantly kill them… diversity is dead. Two sizes: thin and the average size, do NOT count as diversity. They may be slightly different but it’s not diversity.

The last I can think of, which would definitely be the worst consequence humanity would have to live with if the world ends up thin-filled and/or fat people have to suffer when they basically would’ve done nothing wrong but to exist: Karma.

No one deserves to live just to die simply for existing. This is particularly towards those in religion; with Christians and Catholics, they mention gluttony in the Bible, yet did not mention fat people with either ‘overweight’ or ‘obese’. Your ancestors weren’t told by a deity to kill or condemn those who were fat because your deity did NOT say all fat people were gluttons. Even the ones who love to eat and lot and gain weight from that love regardless deserve respect.

In the future, there’s no doubt robots and a lot of advanced technology will be developed to ‘make the world a better place’. But as media warns us in futuristic media, a defect or fault can cause a massive rebellion, making humanity’s greatest creation their own karma. Because in this point in time, us fat activists raising awareness right now for YOU as the public about giving us basic respect and debunking the research may not get anywhere too big. But no crime goes unpunished.

So that’s the consequences I believe for certain humanity will have to live with if their intent to eliminate fat people worldwide succeeds. To those reading this who take part in this immoral goal… are you still proud in doing so?