Life is not always so simple and clean in the midst of having average-sized people see the obese as fat, abhorrent people due to their unusual appearance and overweight state. Judgment is always called for when an abnormality sticks out, and the staggering rise of obesity matches that with considering how more than one-third of U.S. adults are obese. There are no boundaries to judge people of, which only leads to the dream of equality in order to end weight discrimination in its entirety. With obesity spreading as an epidemic throughout various populations, those who are seen to be obese or even overweight are ridiculed without the thought that they are people with souls inside, and that equality blurs between the obese and the norm. Even
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As Sydney Bell notes, “A 2013 study on health and quality of life for overweight and obese people published in the Journal of Eating Disorders suggests that decreased health outcomes for fat people may be less about the negative impacts of fat tissue and more about the results of the attempts to alter bodies with yo-yo dieting, weight-loss surgery, and drugs”(14). Provided with this study, it is evident that the social outlook of how people should look like is extremely dramatic and radical. This essentially shows that in order to be equal to others and their standards, they must decompose their old body with new, more attractive features and procedures at the cost of remarkable decreased health. “Fat oppression is a weapon that targets people of size, but hurts everyone. It promotes the belief that if we are able to be worthy of happiness and respect, our bodies must meet a set of cookie-cutter criteria,” states Sondra Solovay and Galadriel Mozee (64). Solovay effectively furthers the idea of how a healthy and “great” standard of life is only achieved through the most perfect set of rules and guidelines. It further emphasizes the role of the obese being looked down upon in horrid and appalling demeanor, whilst the role of the ideal people are seen as healthy and respectful individuals. This manner of social standard and life only displays how much social inequality and discrimination stands between the two groups, and how the overweight should be seen as equal to everyone else as everyone else saw race as
As Sydney Bell notes, “A 2013 study on health and quality of life for overweight and obese people published in the Journal of Eating Disorders suggests that decreased health outcomes for fat people may be less about the negative impacts of fat tissue and more about the results of the attempts to alter bodies with yo-yo dieting, weight-loss surgery, and drugs”(14). Provided with this study, it is evident that the social outlook of how people should look like is extremely dramatic and radical. This essentially shows that in order to be equal to others and their standards, they must decompose their old body with new, more attractive features and procedures at the cost of remarkable decreased health. “Fat oppression is a weapon that targets people of size, but hurts everyone. It promotes the belief that if we are able to be worthy of happiness and respect, our bodies must meet a set of cookie-cutter criteria,” states Sondra Solovay and Galadriel Mozee (64). Solovay effectively furthers the idea of how a healthy and “great” standard of life is only achieved through the most perfect set of rules and guidelines. It further emphasizes the role of the obese being looked down upon in horrid and appalling demeanor, whilst the role of the ideal people are seen as healthy and respectful individuals. This manner of social standard and life only displays how much social inequality and discrimination stands between the two groups, and how the overweight should be seen as equal to everyone else as everyone else saw race as