I love your response. And yeah ...there are days where I want to Kill Society With Fire. There is just so much heartlessness and cruelty for absolutely no reason at all. Why do they give af what someone looks like? I give af if that person is kind or an asshole.
Being trained as a personal trainer, I used to be in all these fitness groups on fb, right? One day someone posted a meme making fun of someone for wearing a branded workout t-shirt who was rather obese. You can imagine the comments about how that person couldn't possibly do that workout, blah blah. So i responded, a) there are medical reasons they might be obese even if they workout a lot, like PCOS. I know someone who runs marathons but is obese. My skinny ass certainly can't run a marathon! And b) how do you know that person didn't start out at 400 lbs and now they've lost 100 pounds doing that workout? You don't know where they started.
A lot of people called me a party pooper, etc. But then I got a private message from someone else in the group thanking me for speaking up. Because they literally were a person who started out at 450 pounds and was down to 300, and people treated them like that all the time.
You probably made others in the group who were afraid to be targeted, feel better seeing you speak up. You rock. 💛