{"id":5150,"date":"2014-09-07T18:22:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T22:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2014-09-24T14:51:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T18:51:03","slug":"when-you-see-someone-you-find-unattractive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/07\/when-you-see-someone-you-find-unattractive\/","title":{"rendered":"When You See Someone You Find Unattractive"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Fat|scrawny|ugly|whatever] people shouldn’t be allowed to wear [bikinis|spandex|yoga pants|whatever].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you find yourself thinking this, you can solve this problem once and for all:<\/p>\n

Don’t like someone’s body? Stop looking at it.<\/b><\/p>\n

So easy! One simple step that anyone can take. Try it today!<\/p>\n

But I’m entitled to my opinion!<\/i><\/p>\n

Yes, absolutely. So take responsibility for it. Own it. Say “I don’t like the way bikinis look on that body type.”<\/p>\n

But that makes it sound like it’s just about me, like no one has to care.<\/i><\/p>\n

Right again! No one has to care about your opinion of their body.<\/p>\n

But it’s not just personal \u2014 it’s about <\/i>standards. People should have some pride in their appearance, and not look like that.<\/i><\/p>\n

Nope. Wrong. Nobody has an obligation to please you with their appearance. (Unless you are a Drill Instructor doing an inspection, I guess. Are you?)<\/p>\n

This isn’t <\/i>just about appearance! It’s about <\/i>health. Those people aren’t <\/i>healthy.<\/p>\n

Ah yes, the “just trying to help fat people” defense. That may be true, but you don’t know, you don’t know whether they’re working to change that, and you don’t know what obstacles they’ve faced.<\/p>\n

You’re probably [fat|ugly|scrawny|whatever], too!<\/i><\/p>\n

Yeah, probably. There’s a lot of people in the world, and I’m sure there’s plenty I don’t appeal to. Plus, all those terms are moving targets \u2014 they don’t have consistent uses among different people.<\/p>\n

Anyway, now you know what to do about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Fat|scrawny|ugly|whatever] people shouldn’t be allowed to wear [bikinis|spandex|yoga pants|whatever]. If you find yourself thinking this, you can solve this problem once and for all: Don’t like someone’s body? Stop looking at it. So easy! One simple step that anyone can take. Try it today! But I’m entitled to my opinion! Yes, absolutely. So take responsibility […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","category-media","category-politics-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-1l4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5165,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions\/5165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}