
Imagine being so worried and so bothered 1 you don’t even really care. Let’s start there. You can keep the fakeness to yourself but imagine being bothered by somebody else’s body. It is giving you a miserable life. You have nothing else to do with your life, and you’re unhappy with yourself, so you want others to be unhappy like you.
You’d be surprised. Similar to anorexia sometimes people will intentionally eat more to gain weight and alter their appearance due to trauma. A common example I’ve heard for high AN and BED is “if I lost/gained enough weight I’d stop being attractive and it’d protect me” from victims of SA. Things aren’t always black and white. But yes I agree it isn’t as wide spread as restricting especially now but I still think saying basically no one is unhealthily fat like they’re unhealthily thin is wrong
It’s an extreme outlier, it’s not a cultural phenomenon and ppl are wayyyyy more likely to develop BED trying to lose weight than intentionally trying to be fat. It’s not comparable at all to the intense pressure to starve yourself to be thin. I’m not downplaying BED whatsoever, I have it and it’s horrible? I got it trying to lose weight, as most ppl do… I have never met anyone who intentionally wanted to be fat but just about every woman I know has restricted to lose weight…
I never said ppl aren’t “unhealthily fat” I was saying hardly any one is INTENTIONALLY fat like ppl intentionally want to restrict to be thin. Except for extreme outliers. There are going to be rare exceptions in every case. It’s not comparable at all to the insane pressure to lose weight and be thin in our society and THAT’S why fatphobia is so dangerous