What do people interpret from fatness?

What do fat bodies say about you? According to Katja Grace on LessWrong, that answer is shifting. Historically, fatness has been read as moral failure—signs of laziness, greed, or weak self-control. Today, it's also linked to genetics. But in an era of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, fatness increasingly signals something different: lack of wealth, or reluctance to chemically alter your body. Grace speculates that as these medications become cheaper and more socially normalized, fatness may eventually lose its interpretive power entirely—becoming as meaningless as wearing a purple sweater. At that point, she suggests, people could simply be fat in peace.

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