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Originally Posted by thirtiesgirl
What I find sizeist about Zaq's post is his overt assumption that Beth is less socially acceptable than other women who more readily fit into the media sponsored standard image of "beauty." I don't expect Zaq to find her attractive, but I do hope that he'd at least expand his scope of reference enough to understand that some people do find fat people attractive and that's ok. Just because you don't find a fat person attractive or you dislike their personality is no reason to engage in sizeism or make sure everyone knows you think they're an uggo.
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Wait! There's been too much confusion and misunderstandings in some posts before, but I want to clarify that point. Let's distinguish between
acceptable and
accepted, OK? And let's distinguish between describing a common social view and expressing a moral opinion about that view, OK? They are different things. I know that some people do find fat people attractive, but that's not a popular
ideal. I'm just describing a fact, whether we like it or not. I'm not making a "moral judgement", OK? And if you look at this post, you'll see that the two last points are very clear on this matter:
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Originally Posted by Zaqarbal
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And there are many ways of understanding beauty, like:
- Physical beauty
- The beauty of a voice
- The beauty of a personality
- The beauty of an emotion
- The beauty of an artistic creation
- The beauty of an artist's performance
- Beauty according to oneself
- Beauty according to others
- Etc....
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You see?