her saying it's a brain disease you can't control: https://youtu.be/D32RI9upI4c?t=1415
Well then, considering black women are the fattest by far I guess that means they have a genetic brain disease that makes them... ohwait. huh.
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I mean she's accidentally not wrong.
Obesity is almost always the physical manifestation of mental illness and/or trauma.
Being fat long term is either a reaction from past trauma and/or defense against future trauma
or
Mental illness manifesting physically. Think about it, if you "try" to lose weight, and you can't. You are receiving concrete feedback about the world that causality doesn't apply. This about what that does to your psyche and other assumptions about the world. If you physically want to change something (no-one wants to be fat), and are unable too, it creates learned helplessness.
There's not many fat people that don't fall into one or both of those two buckets.