I’m one of the 1.5 million people who wasted six minutes of my life watching Nicole Arbour's YouTube video, entitled "Dear Fat People." The video is six minutes of her expressing her incredibly hateful and awful opinion of what she considers "fat shaming."
“Dear fat people…” begins Arbour in the video. “Ugh! Some people are already mad at this!”
Arbour falls back on humor as justification for the outrage she clearly expects from her comments in the video: “What are you gonna do, fat people? Are you gonna chase me?”
“Fat-shaming is not a thing. Fat people made that up,” Arbour adds. “That’s the race card, with no race.”
In between her comments, Arbour goes off on various tangents trying to be funny. The main topic of her video, however, is a story about people she calls “The Fat Family” that inconvenienced her at the airport.
First of all, I can say one thing -- I was absolutely disgusted by her complete conviction that shaming overweight people would motivate them to be healthy. We grow up in a generation where we are pressured to be thin. A lot of people struggle with body image. Thin or heavy. Short or tall.
What you call "fat shaming," Nicole, is simply bullying that can, and has, resulted in people committing suicide. Take a good look at yourself. You may think this tactic is a good idea, but it does far more harm than good.
You say you're voicing your opinion to try and encourage positive change... But I'm not buying it. By the looks of things, you're just trying to gain likes to feed your ego. So congratulations. You've gained your Twitter followers and YouTube subscribers.
I'm confused by your video, because you speak about being out in public and being offended by "fat people," but this video is not toward "fat people," if they have a "disability." Please tell me how you dictate which "fat person" has a "disability" just by looking at them? Not all diseases are visible. There are many different factors that feed into a person's overall well-being and weight. You say that this video is what WE'VE all wanted to say to fat people? Please don't assume your narrow-minded thoughts apply to me, or everyone else. You are disregarding genetics, socio-economic status, and invisible health conditions like depression.
Let's look at some examples. Some individual's paychecks get their family a week's worth of processed meals rather than two days of healthy meals. How about the fact that fast food chains are strategically placed in marginalized, low-income neighborhoods?
How about the fact that genes can directly cause obesity in disorders such as Bardet-Biedl syndrome and Prader-Willi syndrome?
What part of this did you think was motivational? Fat shaming does exist and it's when people like you, who more than likely haven't experienced weight issues, generalize and demean. You claim this video was about wanting fat people to be healthier, but you also made it seem like you wanted fat people to be healthier just so you wouldn't be "inconvenienced" by smelling their "sweaty sausage" smell or have to "hold up their fat" so it wouldn't crush you on a plane. Seems like you want fat people to disappear just so your already privileged, perfect life can be easier. Is fat people losing weight really about their well-being or yours, Nicole?
For someone who's been preaching about "loving yourself" on your YouTube channel, this video is a huge embarrassment on your part and I hope it's the end of your "comedy." I'm not sure where you thought it was your duty to tell people what they should be eating or how they should be living their lives. I'm sorry fat people disgust you so much, Nicole, but trust me when I say your video and "comedy" disgust me more.
