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Nancy Pelosi is not Fat-Shaming You
She might be contemplating opening and ice cream shoppe, though.
My mom, before she went to the Pentagon to write ethics regulations had to deal with a case where a patient wanted to bring suit against a doctor who had written on her chart that she was “obese.” Well, she was. That is the term. To her credit all mom had to do to get her to drop the case was explain that “obese,” is the medical term. The patient had understood it as an insult and didn’t understand why the doctor had written it on her chart. She felt that it was insulting and demeaning.
And to be entirely honest, that’s kind of fair. Yeah, the patient was a bit silly for trying to pursue such a case in the first place but that she realized her mistake I feel exonerates her. But this brings up several kind of interesting phenomena in medicine and the American culture of fatness and fat-shaming.
Before I get too far into this I want to make it clear I have and always have had weight problems. I oscillate from overweight to underweight and I have an eating disorder which makes me basically unable to enjoy food normally and can plunge me into fits of depression with no warning. Some of this is related to my autism and some of it is just your standard run of the mill American girl issues. I’m also one of those people who can gain…
