OP here, I think you're missing the point I'm trying to make here, which is about the very real human need for authenticity.
I know this is an utterly taboo idea in our extremely superficial media-oriented capitalist society, but some people are just naturally supposed to be fat, it's part of who they are and changing their bodies and becoming thin to better fit in with mainstream society doesn't make them happy, it makes them miserable.
It's just a matter of self-image, no different than things like gender identity - you see yourself as a certain particular kind of person, that is your internally projected self-image. If you see yourself as a person who is supposed to be thin and you are fat, you will be experience feelings of dysphoria because your body does not match your self-image. Conversely if you naturally see yourself as a fat person but you are pressured to become thin by outside influence, you will experience feelings of dysphoria because your body does not match your self-image. You are who you are.
I feel like we live in this culture/era where authenticity doesn't seem to matter anymore, this "fake it til you make it" social media influencer/self-help ted talk sort of culture where people have no inner sense of self at all, they don't see themselves at all, they see themselves as blanks or wildcards and only think about how they are seen by others, they allow themselves to be defined entirely by outside influence and they live in fear of "cringe" i.e. exposure, having their genuine repressed self publicly laid bare for everyone to see. People see themselves as a broken incomplete work in progress and they put everything in their lives on hold until they are "fixed" and they can conform to social expectations.
So, of course, if someone like me were to come out and say something like "Yes I am fat but that's who I am and I'm perfectly okay with that and I'm not going to change to conform to society; society should change to conform to me." - people who are putting themselves through all this psychological torment by believing they are broken/incomplete and toiling away their lives in vain trying to fix themselves are going to be baffled and likely outraged to hear something like that, to face the possibility that all of their sacrifice and hard work and alienation and depression and pain and suffering, that all of it has been for nothing.
Authenticity, figuring out who you really are and just being yo
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