A Twitch streamer, Fiona Fan, is apologizing after receiving backlash for asking why we don't publicly "shame" obese people.
Fan, known as Fanfan on Twitch, was streaming on December 15 to her 50.4 thousand subscribers. Normally, she discusses her life and current events under the "Just Chatting" category.
On this stream, she suggested sectioning off those who are obese the way we designate a space for smokers.
You can't smoke on planes."
"And when you go to a restaurant or a hotel, they have a little roped off area for a 'smoking area.'"
"Like the 'dedicated smoking area' in airports, right? Like, it's roped off."
"Why don't they fucking have that for obese people?"
"I know they don't have that for heroine users, but why do we not shame people who are morbidly obese?"
"It's bad for them."
As comments began calling her out in real time, she later tried to clarify what she was saying.
It didn't make things any better.
"The whole thing that I was saying was that we should not be glorifying people who are morbidly obese, which makes sense, doesn't it?"
"We should not be seeing someone who has health problems because they ate themselves until obesity and call them brave."
"I stand by it."
On a stream the following day, she continued to defend her statements.