The Thinness Society met for the first time on October 7, 2046. Many FatLanders were appalled at the very idea. Unfortunately, a minority were vocal supporters.
One of the original members of the "Fat and Happy" TV reality show in 2010, the show that ended up being the stimulus behind the creation of FatLand, decided that there were now too many people who were starting to become thin in FatLand. She didn't realize that genetic probability was simply taking its turn, and that the thin kids and young adults she was seeing were the result of recessive genes pairing up. So she founded the Thinness Society, which was focused on trying to "treat" thinness. Needless to say, there were no thin members of the Thinness Society.
Ring a bell? The Obesity Society is an actual organization here in the USA and is still focused on "treating" obesity (read "fat people"). There are no "obese" members. There are: doctors, educators, nurses, all talking about how obesity should be helped/cured/eradicated.
And just as you might imagine, there were demonstrators outside this meeting of the Thinness Society carrying signs that read "Thinness is not a disease" and "Thinness does not need to be treated."
Yep. And neither does "Obesity."
"Thinness" can be a disease of somebody is too thin. It would be the same for someone who is too fat.
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