I agree with you on the ‘live and let live’ thing, but I am highly suspicious of any conspiracy theories.
Democracy is all about choices – we trust people to make their own choices… some fuck up, some dont. But people have to take personal responsibility, this is why feminism is widely popular among western world – they take the individual responsibility and make it society’s fault. ”I’m really obese and I am so unhappy with that, because I feel unattractive and unfit, but society made me feel this way in the first place, so I am okay as long as society is the one to blame and I don’t actually have to do anything myself to improve.” And there is no reason why people who are content with being overweight/fat/obese shouldn’t be as they are. I am not attracted to fat people nor am I promoting obesity, but hell as long as there is freedom and free will I say people do what they fucking want to and stop whining so much.
And oh feminism… everything is peachy keen as long as you agree with them, but as soon as you voice a different opinion than PC, feminists forget that they are all for freedom of speech, democracy and liberalism. Oh the sweet irony.
But fat-shaming is something that gets the society nowhere. This will only produce a large number of very dysfunctional people.
Fortunately obesity in my country is not really an issue (…yet).
Btw, I remember sending you an e-mail, in which i needed some advice. I would still be happy to get some feedback.