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You can tell that fatphobes are full of shit because I have never not once been criticized for my unhealthy weight even though my weight probably poses a lot more of a health risk than the average overweight person’s 

This hasn’t been my experience, for what it’s worth. Every time I go home a significant fraction of the people I interact with confront me because they’re concerned about my unhealthy weight, and a larger fraction ask my parents if they are doing anything about my unhealthy weight. Strangers at parties will frequently insist I eat more food because I am unhealthily thin in their opinion. I can expect a concerned comment about my unhealthy weight with near certainty if I go to a dinner party with strangers.

And of course if I lose more weight it will be legal to forcefeed me to return me to an appropriate weight, and as far as I can tell there is nothing I can do, short of ‘don’t lose that much weight’, that will stop this from happening. 

Obviously the solution to this is “stop accosting anyone with concerns that their weight is unhealthy; mind your own business; never talk about anyone’s weight ever.” But it’s not true at all that people are currently that respectful if you’re underweight. They aren’t.

You are significantly smaller than I am, and people who are forcefed are even smaller.

It seems plausible to me both that invasive douchebags feel entitled to offer their opinions on the health of very thin people and that invasive douchebags have an inaccurate idea, influenced by cultural fatphobia, of what level of skinniness is correlated with health problems. 

More evidence for the inaccurate idea hypothesis: I stopped hearing comments about my weight the instant people began to misgender me as female instead of male, and I hear this isn’t exactly uncommon. To my knowledge, one’s clothing and hairstyle don’t influence the health outcomes correlated with one’s weight, while they do influence the invasive douchebaggery outcomes correlated with cultural full-of-shit-ness.

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   I’m pretty sure it’s also significantly affected by apparent gender. I got a lot more comments about being underweight...

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    More evidence for the inaccurate idea hypothesis: I stopped hearing comments about my weight the instant people began to...

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    Data point: when I had the same BMI as you (based on your self-reported height and weight in the Anti-Heartiste FAQ) I...

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    This part is certainly true. Invasive douchebags love to compliment me on my weight loss right until the moment they...

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    You are significantly smaller than I am, and people who are forcefed are even smaller.It seems plausible to me both that...

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    I wonder how much of this is about salience? Maybe a very small number of people have ever commented on Ozy’s weight*,...

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    Yeah seconded. Like ime I got way less shit from DOCTORS underweight, but this was only after they determined I was not...

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    I wonder to what extent this is a subcultural and/or ethnic distinction. FWIW, in my experience and research,...

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