I will review the video again, but in context, Mahar has specifically suggested fat-shaming before:
“In August, 53 Americans died from mass shootings. Terrible right? Do you know how many died from obesity? Forty thousand. Fat shaming doesn’t need to end it needs to make a comeback. Some amount of shame is good. We shamed people out of smoking and into wearing seat belts. We shamed them out of littering and most of them out of racism. Shame is the first step in reform.”
Bill Maher Asks People To Fat Shame More, Here Is The Response
I also think he is purposely misstating the issue; He is connecting how a person looks (where he discusses the ads of brands like Nike and...Victoria's Secret?) to celebrating unhealthy lifestyles.
Which it often is.
The fact that he points out a lingerie store as being something that should be focused on fitness suggests something about his image of beauty, and that how a person looks determines their health, and that different body types shouldn't have representation in the media. This is often untrue since a person's health is far more complicated than how they look, since both a healthy diet, healthy exercise, and healthy weight are dependent on the individual: Can you be overweight but healthy?
And yet, as Mahar pointed out, obesity/over-eating is the leading cause of death in the US.
There are always exceptions. I can show you a list of people who smoked all their lives and lived to be over 100, including the oldest person who's ever lived and the oldest person living now.
Does that mean smoking isn't a health hazard?
Anyway, we weren't talking about just being overweight, we're talking about obesity.
This from the link you posted, "Above 31% body fat is considered above average, and it’s recommended to try to reduce fat mass at that point".
Anything over 31% is considered obese, and really, 31% isn't all that much. I think 31% falls below what most people mean when they say someone is "fat".
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