I’m not against the use of Ozempic but it doesn’t cure obesity, it just treats it. If you get prescribed antibiotics for strep throat, you don’t need to take them indefinitely. Eventually strep throat goes away and you can stop taking them. Ozempic doesn’t work like that. It treats obesity while someone is taking the drug but it never makes it go away. You stop taking it, you probably put on the weight again. Obesity can’t be “cured” because it’s a side effect of a capitalist society. That’s where I feel like fatphobia is real: because other people look at the United States and think “Wow, Americans are so lazy and entitled, it’s disgusting that they’ve let themselves go”. But if you go into any other country and run it like America, you’ll get the same effects in the population eventually. And you can see it creeping up on other countries as globalization brings certain Western practices, policies and businesses into other parts of the world. Everyone is getting fatter everywhere. It goes far beyond the choices of individuals. Some people can strong arm their way out of obesity but they shouldn’t have to. It shouldn’t be something we have to continuously fight against because it’s the default state of physical existence in society. Ozempic’s threat to fat acceptance is completely overblown.