Time to expand on this 🙂 The people who unlike this commenter do not ask about this in good faith usually seem to want one thing: for fat activists to "admit it". Admit that fatness can be classified as a problem. Admit that there is such a thing as "too fat". So let's go there, sort of. Can body size, in a strictly physical sense, regardless of discrimination and exclusion in society, be limiting or disabling? Yes. Body activist movements are often accused of denying this, but I don't really see that happening. Fat liberation is concerned with social justice for fat people. Body positivity is concerned with individual self-acceptance. HAES is concerned with the accessible pursuit of better health regardless of weight. Neither of those necessitate drawing a line in the sand between the acceptable and the non-acceptable fats. There is no "too fat to have rights". There is no "too fat to be allowed to love and accept yourself". There is no "too fat to build a healthier life". As for what constitutes being "too fat to live the life you want" - that's up to each individual person. I'm a small fat woman. I'm not gonna sit here and tell infinifat people that they have no business wanting or trying to lose weight. I'm also not gonna tell them that they must do so. And no one should presume to tell me what size or which choices are right for me either. I do think it's important to know that not all fat people can or will or should lose weight. And that the reasons people are fat or stay fat vary greatly, and that strangers are not entitled to know those reasons for to pass judgement. You own your body. Embrace it exactly as is if you wish. Try to change it if you wish. Feel however you feel about it. Regardless, you are never too fat to be loved, to be important, or to be a person.
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