Is obesity ever a person's fault

[Bettie]

84. Who cares whose "fault" it is?

The better question is this:

Why is it your job to care what body others choose to live in? Why are you entitled to judge the bodies of other people?

There are many, many people who don't fit the standard version of physical perfection and a very few who do.

Bodies come in many shapes and sizes and the most effective way to get a larger body is to diet over and over in hopes of attaining the perfection that we are all "supposed" to strive for via eating less and less.

I get so tired of people who think they are entitled to judge the bodies of others, as if current ideals of beauty are the only worth any person has.

My weight comes partly from genetics (I look just like my grandfather's sisters did at my age), partly from poor exercise habits (getting better at that), and partly from cyclical dieting over the course of many years. Though, truly, it is none of anyone's business but my own.