• Strangequark
    +13

    I kind of get where you're coming from, but the health at every size movement is less about convincing people that being fat is super healthy and more about dismantling the extreme view that has been adopted by society that you cannot be both fat and healthy. As it stands right now, people encourage otherwise perfectly healthy people who exercise, run marathons, eat well, etc, to adopt unhealthy behaviour (mental health problems regarding obsession, anorexia, or physical damage through starvation or over exercising) just to be thin.

    Everyone knows people who can eat whatever they want and not put on an inch, no matter how little they exercise, but the idea that there could be a corollary at the other end of the scale is just unthinkable. So HAES is about eating healthily, exercising regularly, checking health markers like bloodwork, lung capacity, etc, but not obsessing over weight or dress size. Everyone else's fixation on the weight of a person who is perfectly healthy, just fatter than you'd like them to be, is the issue the activists fight against.

    • hallucigenia
      +5

      I think the bigger issue than FPH is the fact that reddit is so one-sided. I wouldn't mind the existence of FatPeopleHate so much if there were a strong HAES community on reddit, but there just isn't. Not even remotely. So there's no real debate, it's just people spewing hate, and if a single person dares to disagree with them, they're downvoted into oblivion.