Why is it noteworthy that Chris Christie is fat?

[dmallind]

84. You can't speak for all

I don't give a rat's ass how much I weigh or whether strangers think I have any unrelated attributes because of it (except of course that this proves them to be irrational). I don't want to be thin, don't even want not to be fat (or, it must be said, want to be fat either. Just don't care either way). I live the way I want to and how I am able to because of entirely unrelated health issues. I have not the slightest doubt on earth I could easily be, if not thin, then less fat than I am, but why the hell should I care any more than I care what color my hair is or what's my shoe size? Why should I even spare a thought, let alone make drastic changes, to make other people stop proving themselves to be idiots by clucking about my weight? Dieting and faddish weight control gyrations are almost entirely for the truly pointless aim of making other people have a better opinion of your physical shape. Since only very limited thinkers indeed place any value on the physical shape of other people, by definition ot is then done to make idiots less dismissive of you. I truly could not care less if idiots dismiss me. The only truly valid reason to care about your weight is if it stops you from doing something you, as an individual, passionately want to do. Since climbing mountains and running marathons hold absolutely no appeal to me (and if they did, I would likely not be fat in the first place) it never applies to me.

I've been in great physical shape as a bodybuilder. I've been in average if bulky physical shape as I tailed off training and dieting. I've been fat. I've been morbidly obese. I'm somewhere in between the latter two right now. I haven't been stopped from doing one single thing I wanted to do in that process. I haven't been one iota more lazy, feckless, unintelligent, ill-educated, mentally limited, or any other canard leveled at the fat either. The only difference obesity has made in my life is that on the plus side I have several hours a day to do things I enjoy more than working out as I used to (I used to enjoy it) and on the negative side I have to pay more for clothes

Any longevity impact of obesity is a) almost always massively exaggerated b) refers only to slight shifts in very broad distributions with countless other uncontrollable factors (even if severe obesity can be shown to take a couple of years off on average, it does not mean it does so for all individuals - there is no consistent discrete effect at all) c) extends life only at the end - and who would resonably trade two more years of being very old for a lifetime of joint-destroying jogging and eating rabbit food just to get them, and above all for me personally d) completely moot to my life expectancy. I always laugh at men especially who pretend fat people should care because of lifespan. Even the health-nuts don't lie enough to pretend obesity takes 13 years off your life, and yet there is one thing men can do that adds that much - castrate themselves in their teens. Suddenly some things are more important than lifespan!