In the early weeks, I even tweeted: “Dieting is not so much about losing weight as it is about gaining an eating disorder.”
This is what they actually think. Eating too much carbs too often and making yourself insulin resistant "not an eating disorder." Eating a proper human diet like a proper human "an eating disorder."
because being fat is the worst kind of failure.
It literally is. You're literally failing to maintain your actual SELF. What could be more of a failure?
I've told this story before, but it remains relevant.
About a decade ago I referred to myself as a "fat piece of shit" in front of one of these "body positivity" women who was a friend of a friend. She told me how I shouldn't feel this way and that I should be happy with my body as it was.
She was also obese (possibly even more so than I was), and when she said that it occurred to me that with her attitude she would always be obese, whereas as long as I held my attitude there was at least a chance I'd become unhappy enough with how I looked I'd attempt to do something about it.
All that to say, this attitude is not surprising to me: if you treat "fat" and "slender" as equally valid lifestyle "choices", then any attempt to preference being slender over being fat is "bias" and "bigotry" which must be eliminated.
Throughout the article she peppers in statements like, "What does that say to the people like me who, no matter what they did, would still be on the heavier end of the spectrum?" Part of fat acceptance is the false idea that there are naturally fat people and naturally skinny people which is of course 100% horse shit. So it isn't even about "lifestyle choices" it's an immutable feature, so it is like racism.
It's funny the left believes that a man can become a woman but not that a fat can become a skinny.
Apparently that Eliezer Yudkowsky guy believes that, which is something I always think about whenever he issues his "proclamations" about how AI is going to kill us all and we need to nuke China if they buy too many GPUs.
The other day I saw someone say something like "holocaust films should make sure some prisoners are fat because one would expect there to be some 'naturally fat' people among them."
Though part of me is sympathetic to those who get it so wrong, due to the dismal state mainstream nutrition education is in. Though it's also very convenient for a fat person to believe they're "just naturally fat", so my sympathy certainly has limits.
Ozempic® (semaglutide) injection is a once-weekly noninsulin medicine that, along with diet and exercise, may help improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes.
Not sure how taking or promoting that means society has rejected "body positivity."
It's not just the appetite suppression; even for people without diabetes the insulin sensitization contributes greatly to weight loss. The dumb thing is it is really easy to increase insulin sensitivity through fasting and reducing carb intake and you don't even risk pooping the bed.
This is what they actually think. Eating too much carbs too often and making yourself insulin resistant "not an eating disorder." Eating a proper human diet like a proper human "an eating disorder."
It literally is. You're literally failing to maintain your actual SELF. What could be more of a failure?
I've told this story before, but it remains relevant.
About a decade ago I referred to myself as a "fat piece of shit" in front of one of these "body positivity" women who was a friend of a friend. She told me how I shouldn't feel this way and that I should be happy with my body as it was.
She was also obese (possibly even more so than I was), and when she said that it occurred to me that with her attitude she would always be obese, whereas as long as I held my attitude there was at least a chance I'd become unhappy enough with how I looked I'd attempt to do something about it.
All that to say, this attitude is not surprising to me: if you treat "fat" and "slender" as equally valid lifestyle "choices", then any attempt to preference being slender over being fat is "bias" and "bigotry" which must be eliminated.
Throughout the article she peppers in statements like, "What does that say to the people like me who, no matter what they did, would still be on the heavier end of the spectrum?" Part of fat acceptance is the false idea that there are naturally fat people and naturally skinny people which is of course 100% horse shit. So it isn't even about "lifestyle choices" it's an immutable feature, so it is like racism.
It's funny the left believes that a man can become a woman but not that a fat can become a skinny.
Apparently that Eliezer Yudkowsky guy believes that, which is something I always think about whenever he issues his "proclamations" about how AI is going to kill us all and we need to nuke China if they buy too many GPUs.
The other day I saw someone say something like "holocaust films should make sure some prisoners are fat because one would expect there to be some 'naturally fat' people among them."
Though part of me is sympathetic to those who get it so wrong, due to the dismal state mainstream nutrition education is in. Though it's also very convenient for a fat person to believe they're "just naturally fat", so my sympathy certainly has limits.
Since I wasn't familiar with the drug:
Not sure how taking or promoting that means society has rejected "body positivity."
It's not just the appetite suppression; even for people without diabetes the insulin sensitization contributes greatly to weight loss. The dumb thing is it is really easy to increase insulin sensitivity through fasting and reducing carb intake and you don't even risk pooping the bed.
tl;dr...summary?