Fat Acceptance = Gay Pride

Compulsive hoarding is a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire and keep things, even if the items are worthless, hazardous or unsanitary. There is an entire show about it.

An ad for The Trevor Project came on as I watched said show. The Trevor Project is a national, toll free, confidential suicide hotline for LGBTQ young people, and the network airing Hoarders was proud to announce that they had raised $250,000 for The Trevor Project during Pride Month.

If someone is contemplating suicide their mental disorder sexual preference doesn’t matter. A good listener only has to be a fellow human; their personality traits matter more than their similarity to the caller’s identity.

The Trevor Project does good work and I am not saying it shouldn’t exist. But if homosexuals have a separate but equal suicide hotline for homosexuals only, hoarders should also have their own suicide hotline. Given their state of mind and filthy living conditions, they are also known to be suicide prone. To continue this trend of identity fairness, people in excess of 600lbs should also have their own suicide hotline. Much like homosexual teens they are also bullied by cruel people.

Homosexuals have shows, as do hoarders and the super morbidly obese. However similarly abnormal these behaviors are by definition, homosexuality stands out as culturally acceptable. It has a “culture” itself. Yet there is nothing intrinsically queer about Queer Eye because sexual preference has nothing to do with good taste. Homosexuality is not a culture, but it is trying to be; and it is ironically succeeding by bullying anyone that disagrees with homosexuality as a‘bigot.’

The human body can withstand filthy conditions, sodomy, and substantial weight gain. That doesn’t mean that it should. The unnatural practice of these lifestyles does not result in a healthy or fulfilling life by natural standards, the standards by which our bodies were designed. A woman’s body and a man’s body were designed with specific functions: a man impregnates a woman, and a woman holds the child. It is very straightforward. All of our body parts have natural functions or else we couldn’t live.

A woman could be barren, a man could shoot blanks. In either case, the design remains the same; it is the individuals that malfunction physically. As evidenced by Hoarders and My 600 lb. Life individuals can also malfunction mentally and seek help.

Unnatural compulsions exist, and whether it is a choice or a birth defect is still unknown; but suicide is never the answer and support should always be given in such dire circumstances. (These people also tend to suffer from a mental disorder known as depression. It doesn't have a Pride Month, but it could.)

Supporting unnatural behavior is reckless. With the right support people can be guided away from destructive behavior, towards good behavior. These days 'society' would rather support a person by babying their poor decisions. It is labelled 'acceptance.'

Homosexuality has now achieved societal acceptance with Pride Month. The Fat acceptance movement is lumbering behind it, out of breath. Hoarders still have a ways to go. Surprisingly pedophilia is not far behind them.

Fat Acceptance is like Gay Pride. They are proudly--and spitefully--celebrating living recklessly. Where is the 'pride' movement for all people choosing to live life dangerously? Or is proud the wrong word?