Fat Acceptance Is Dangerous

So, Let me get this straight - the best example you can provide for why the fat acceptance movement is dangerous is that: one time, Two people filed a complaint against a giant airline company. If that is the worst thing to come out of the fat acceptance movement I think we can pretty definitively call it 'not dangerous'. But lets unpack this example. First of all, The article you have cited agrees that weighing passengers is a subtle form of discrimination - once again, YOUR source disagrees with your point. Second of all, Yes! It is discriminatory! As you point out: "Major airlines such as American Airlines and United Airlines will require overweight fliers to purchase an additional seat or upgrade should they encroach on another passenger"s space" - airlines are literally charging fat people more money than skinny people, That is obvious and unambiguous discrimination. So you don't like being squished up next to a fat person on a plane? Well duh, Noone does, I'm pretty sure the fat person doesn't like being squished up against you either. If the airline designed the plane with enough space to accomodate their larger customers this wouldn't be an issue. Why don't you get angry at the airline for trying to squeeze in extra passengers instead of the fat people for simply existing? The worst thing that would happen is that everyone gets more room and the airline makes less money - sounds good to me. Moving on to Natalia. You'll notice that she started gaining weight AFTER she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. This would make sense because one of the symptoms of the disease is an increase in appetite. She goes on to say she used this think being fat was a terrible thing but that now she is ok with it. Where in that sentence does it say: 'I have stopped caring about the health risks of my type 1 diabetes'. 'Being fat' is not going to have any effect on her diabetes - her diet and exercise regime will, But we DONT KNOW what her diet and exercise regime is like. You are just assuming her diet is bad because she is fat. Sing it with me now: fatness and unhealthiness are not the same thing. Moving on to 'skinny preference'. Yes, I agree that every consenting adult is entitled to date and sleep with whoever they want. NOONE is forcing you to sleep with ANYONE that you don't want to. Saying 'big is beautiful' does not mean 'you have to sleep with any fat person who's interested or else you're a bigot' - I find this kind of ridiculous. But what does it mean to say you have a 'skinny preference'? Does that mean that anyone over a certain percentage of body fat is just automatically unattractive to you? What if you meet someone, You have all the same interests you get along like a house of fire you have great banter, But that person falls just outside of your internal 'fatness threshold', Would you not consider them as a romantic partner at all? What if you meet the skinny person of your dreams, You get married, And then a decade later they have gotten fat - maybe they were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, Who knows? Do you just automatically lose all feeling for your spouse of 10 years? Or are you able to see through the fatness to the inner skinny person that they truly are? How exactly does this work? In conclusion, You have said that "the health implications that come along with using fat acceptance as a scapegoat for not changing health status is already very concerning" and as i have repeatedly shown, This is a gross misunderstanding of what the fat acceptance movement actually is. To quote YOUR source: "Fat acceptance is the radical notion that fat people are human beings and deserve respect", This, In a nutshell, Is what the fat acceptance movement is about and I support it. If that means that airline companies are pressured to provide more space for their customers, And that people are asked to question their dating preferences - great! I support that too.