to be fat like me

"To Be Fat Like Me” is a movie about a girl who believes that overweight people, like her mom and brother, seem to make excuses about how the world perceives them. She decides to go undercover as a fat girl to prove that weight has nothing to do with popularity and that the fat person's negative attitude is to blame instead. She learns that being fat is not easy and is mocked and teased by the other kids.

She starts off believing that “Fat people use their weight as an excuse” and ends up realising that being fat “is like permission for people to treat you like crap.”

The issue of obesity is a very real problem. However, the problems are not just health-wise, but also a sociological and psychological problem. Just because people look different from you that does not give you the right to judge them by what’s on the outside.

The movie has good intentions but what is up with the ending??? She asks her boyfriend if he would stay with her if she were really to balloon up and he says no. While that may be honest, it's sad... Maybe if they were strangers he would not be attracted to her, but the whole point is that her size would change, not her personality. But he says he likes that she’s skinny and a jock. And she’s happy with his answer and kisses him! Wtf? Seriously?

Favourite quote from the film:

“Fat or skinny, popular or freak, it all comes down to this—the world will tell you who you are until you tell the world.”

I’m sick of people judging others by their appearance! Just because someone is overweight that doesn’t mean they’re a lesser person or that they are bad people for allowing themselves to be that size. It doesn’t mean they should be treated differently or that they don’t deserve/won’t get what a thin person would. They could be the most wonderful, sweetest people inside but they’re not even given a chance. It’s narrow minded, ignorant people who continuously pester fat people into believing that they’re worth less than the non-fat people around them.

And while I am already venting I will just add that Indian people do that a lot! Especially in my family. Makes me sick to my stomach. Superficial freaks! They don’t realise how their words affect a person and what it does to them mentally.

They claim they are just worried about the risks of obesity but that’s bullshit. All their “advice” just makes no problem into a big dilemma. It’s an issue because you made it one. All I have to say to those critical scumbags is that “People can lose the weight. But you’ll probably never stop being shallow.”

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