It is a lot easier to neglect large people than to admit that they exist! How did I reach this realization you ask? Well, it is very easy; all you have to do is look around you and you will figure it out for yourself.
To clear any confusions in your
minds; yes, I am talking about fat people, whether we use terms like large,
overweight, obese, big … etc. this does not change the fact that we mean fat.
So, let's call a spade a spade and hit the nail right on the head.
Let's look around us and see how fat people are treated in our society. More often than not, fat people are considered with no feelings or insensitive, because let's face it; if they had feelings at all, they wouldn't be fat to begin with, they would do their best to fit their bodies to fit in the community.
Let's go shopping; almost all
stores in
1-
Accept whatever the stores throw
at you and be grateful that you ever found anything at all; it is true that you
will appear a lot older than you real age to which the weight added a few years
already, but who is looking? You are not normal so you might as well admit it
and move on.
2- Don't accept to wear clothes that are good for your mother or grandmother and go tailor your own wardrobe. If you go downtown, you will find lots of stores that sell nice fabrics; you can choose your favorite colors and pay the stewardess a visit and make your own clothes.
3- Don’t accept that you are different and keep looking for clothes in the stores. You want stylish clothes and you don’t want to surrender to the idea that these models do not fit your body type, so you settle for clothes one or two sizes smaller and you will look uglier than ever because you did not flatter your body by doing such actions.
Being fat in our part of the world
means hearing remarks as you are walking down the street, being ogled at when
you are eating, getting uncalled for advice from people and being fat deprives
you from your rights of leading a normal life; you will not have the chance to
love and be loved because who wants to be seen next to a fat person?
Let's take a look at relationships of fat people; almost always; fat people are the clowns of the group; they are the ones who always make fun of themselves, they are the first to laugh if someone dropped a joke about them and they never show that they got upset if someone offended them; after all; fat people are not supposed to have feelings, right?
Fat people are always judged by
their size and shape; the majority of people do not pay attention to their
personalities; if they had a personality to begin with; they wouldn't have been
fat, right? This attitude is passed from one generation to another and we see
that our kids are doing the exact same things we do; they treat their
overweight counterparts as insensitive and objects for mockery and sarcasm!
Fat people are prejudiced all over
the world, however; when we look at the west and how they deal with the issue,
it is completely different than what we see in our part of the world. Not only
they are treated as human at least formally, but obesity is now officially a
disease and is covered by insurance. It is the No. 1 reason of deaths in
In our part of the world, obesity is considered a choice and that is why fat people are treated so badly. The majority of the people have convictions that fat people should be more decisive and determine to lose the weight and thin people almost always throw unwanted advice to them by saying: don't eat too much and you will lose weight.
Fat people hurt from the inside
and do their best not to show so that they won't get more advice from those
around them. At a certain point; they might even lose all control over their
urges and their binging which will make things even worse.
Obesity and overweight have so many types and are caused by a different number of reasons. It is true that the most commonly known type is the one resulting from overeating or choosing the starch and fat rich foods as preferences, however; there are some clinical reasons that cause obesity and this one is the hardest and the most painful. A slight imbalance in the body hormones can cause obesity; certain medications have overweight as one of their most common side effects and emotional disturbance plays a major role in gaining or losing weight.
So, to all people out there reading these lines; cut fat people some slack; it does not make you a better person just because you weigh a lot less and it does not make them bad because they are fat. Also, don’t ever forget that regardless of their sizes; fat people are still human and have feelings that are more fragile than yours and they are easily hurt; their lack of self confidence makes them compensate for it with sharing people's jokes and laughs about them or even starting the joke themselves. They are self conscious and try to make up to their shortcomings by showing the world that they could care less.
Trust me when I tell you these things because I experienced them first hand and I know how it feels and how it hurts to be judged and prejudiced because of your size; it is really ironic how people consciously or subconsciously subtract the weight and size of your brain and experience from your overall size and weight!
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from Egypt