Being fat seems to be interpreted—at least in some society—as a sign of inferior personal virtue: being lazy, greedy, lacking self control. It is also read, perhaps more accurately, as a sign of unfortunate genetics.
In the age of GLP-1 drugs and the like, being fat shifts to partially a sign of not taking GLP-1 drugs, which makes it increasingly a sign of different traits, such as lack of spare wealth and reluctance to chemically modify your body (albeit a very imperfect sign).
I wonder if such body modifications will reach a level of cheapness, availability and acceptance that it is hard to read much of interest into being fat at all, much as it is now hard to read much into someone having a purple sweater or not. And then people can be fat in peace.
Being fat seems to be interpreted—at least in some society—as a sign of inferior personal virtue: being lazy, greedy, lacking self control. It is also read, perhaps more accurately, as a sign of unfortunate genetics.
In the age of GLP-1 drugs and the like, being fat shifts to partially a sign of not taking GLP-1 drugs, which makes it increasingly a sign of different traits, such as lack of spare wealth and reluctance to chemically modify your body (albeit a very imperfect sign).
I wonder if such body modifications will reach a level of cheapness, availability and acceptance that it is hard to read much of interest into being fat at all, much as it is now hard to read much into someone having a purple sweater or not. And then people can be fat in peace.