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That’s part of the trouble when you’re put down constantly while in the spotlight. There’s backlash. Then, there’s backlash to the backlash and it soon becomes an endless cycle and the actual problem never gets addressed.

You ask why a heroin addict isn’t on the cover. Well, for one thing, people don’t crap on heroin addicts publicly all day every day. For another, if one were still functional enough to attain and maintain a certain level of notoriety, they might get put on the cover of a publication. I mean, at least a handful of rock stars, for example, fit this description.

While I view both heroin addiction and food addiction as indeed following under the umbrella of “addiction”, that’s where a lot of the similarity stops. Heroin addiction, for the most part, is invisible. What I mean by that is that most of us don’t see heroin addicts in our daily routines and if we do, most of us feel sad for them. Obesity, of course is different in that regard, and I don’t have to spell it out for you. And, like I said, the co-opting of the body positivity movement is backlash to the treatment they’ve gotten. It doesn’t happen randomly, and here’s something I think we can both agree on: it really does nothing to address or solve the problem. But a lot of this going ‘round and ‘round is really not borne out of a concern for people’s health, it’s that others just don’t like to look at obese people. And, I can tell you, that’s at least equally not helpful.

Somehow, some way, there needs to be a serious discussion that doesn’t center around the cycle of insults and backlash to insults, and that will require an actual deep rooted concern about peoples’ health as oppose to their appearance.

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