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- Nov 15, 2017
skellies are generally more sympathic to people than deathfats because starving yourself is deprivation and stuffing yourself is gratification.
nobody normal wants to starve. it's hugely unpleasant. indulging in carb-heavy meals, fatty snacks, and sweets, however, is pretty rad to most people. it'd be great if we could all do it without the consequence of becoming a deathfat, but we can't, so we don't. anorexia manifests as something that takes total control over your eating, while extreme obesity manifests as a complete lack over it.
given those of us non-deathfat control our eating to be so, and view our moments of binging to be either an earned reward or a slip-of-control failure, we empathize more with ana-chans who are taking on more clearly painful and obviously intentional self-harming behaviors. over-eating, on the other hand, is an excess of what we can all recognize as a pleasurable activity.
basically, an excess of purging is more sympathetic than an excess of binging as a mental illness because no normie would willingly purge but we'd all fucking be binging if there wasn't the clear consequence of becoming a deathfat. but there is, so we don't. it's just not sympathetic.
Anorexic and Bulimic people are definitely more sympathetic because of the mental illness, since it has more deaths than recoveries. Deathfats end up that way because of bad choices, and last time I checked, that's not a mental illness. It's just poor control.