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I think the popular conception of and attitude towards “the fatty” has a lot in common with “the addict.” People turn disgust into moral outrage, and want you to cease to exist, or at least exist somewhere they can’t see you.

I was going to argue that psychiatry has cults in a way other medical disciplines don’t, because it’s easy to tell what a broken bone looks like and straighten it, but it’s harder to tell what a broken mind looks like. You get these psychiatrists who try to “fix” other people even when the thing they want to change wasn’t a problem in the first place. Then I realized the non-psychiatric version of this is the cult of You Just Need to Lose Weight.