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https://www.yahoo.com/news/v-sivankutty-india-debates-fat-000201556.html

Double XL: Why toxic fat shaming is so rampant in India

Aryan blood memory, perhaps?

In a Malayalam-language post, Education Minister V Sivankutty gave his own example of being body shamed.

He wrote that a few days back, when he shared a picture of some students taking a selfie with him, a person commented that "you should reduce your stomach a little bit".

In his reply to the comment, the minister called body shaming "a heinous practice".

"Body shaming is the worst, no matter what the explanation. This is happening in our society on so many levels. There are many among us who have been victims of body shaming and even suffered mentally," he wrote.

"We need to end body shaming. Let's be modern people," he added.

No, let's not be modern people:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/leftists-against-progressivism/

I will now face-shame him also:

The minister's comments and a recent Bollywood film, Double XL, have put the spotlight on fat shaming in India where people are routinely insulted for their physical appearance.

The film starred popular actresses Huma Qureshi and Sonakshi Sinha who have both talked about being body shamed in the past. Sinha was trolled on social media for her weight and, in her early days, Qureshi was written off by critics who believed "she was 5kg too heavy to be a heroine".

I will face-shame them as well:

Critics say India's popular Hindi film industry which influences and moulds public opinion is partly to blame for the notion that fat is foul and slim is beautiful.

They should keep promoting this notion.

Mr Ramani says "it's alright if people want to be size zero because they want to look a certain way, but it's not an idea that should be imposed on others".

I do not advocate forcing anyone to lose weight. I simply advocate public transport tickets etc. be scaled in price according to passenger weight. The current practice of ignoring weight in calculating prices for services is unfair to lighter people. Fundamentally, heavier people take up more space and/or waste more energy whatever public service they are using. Why should they not have to pay extra? How is it fair that lighter people (who themselves already take up less space and waste less energy) have to subsidize heavier people?

Through his film, he says, he wants to tell people that "accept that you are beautiful, whatever your shape or size or skin colour"

If everyone is "beautiful", "beauty" means nothing. What people really need to accept is that most people are ugly, and lying to them about this just makes things worse. Only after we agree that most people are ugly can we properly begin to discuss which small fraction can be called beautiful, in other words what standard of beauty should be adopted.

t's a topic Harnidh Kaur, a plus-size poet and writer who works at an Indian unicorn, routinely raises in her columns and on social media.

Fat shaming, she says, is rampant because "most Indians have no idea about boundaries and in our families everyone comments on everyone else's appearance"

There is nothing wrong with commenting on others' appearance. I will now face-shame her also:

men on dating apps who suggested working out together because "you'd look really pretty once you're thinner".

Actually, her face shape would still be the same. The problem is not commenting on others' appearance; it is commenting with absurdly low standards.