move aside, snarky fat chick coming through

For most of my recallable past, I've been more interested in alternative means of healing myself than doctoring. It's not just that the medical community hates fat folk, but that I think the medical community has been trained to hate people, period. And this is shown off particularly well by media coverage of the medical community (maybe the media hate people, too?).

There's a couple of articles about OMG! Pregnant Fat Women!, specifically how it's So Much More Dangerous for anyone 'overweight' (keep in mind, thanks to the CDC, this is now pretty much everyone) to get pregnant and have a kid. I'm not going to bother worrying today about how true that is or isn't. What gets me is the way doctors talk to the press about patients. For instance.

They need to be retrained for their own health, but you know what? They’re going to be raising kids. You don’t want them to teach their kids those same bad eating habits.

That's right. All fat people have terrible eating habits. And only the All Knowing Doctor can make us better, cause we're just too gosh golly darned stupid to take care of our own bodies, let alone the children. And we must think of the the children!

Coupled with the generally infantilizing "Ooo, aren't you cute! And with such a tiny, hormone-addled brain!" attitude that we as a culture tend to take towards pregnant women, I sometimes don't know how anyone can bear the thought of having kids at all.