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We need to start seriously treating the concepts of “obesity” and “weight loss” as a dangerous pseudoscience and I’m not kidding.
It’s some shit that everyone thinks they can understand based on vibes but science just doesn’t work that way. Real scientists have proved time and time again that it doesn’t work how people assume. Many medical conditions where it’s assumed weight is a “cause”, something to blame the patient for, it’s often actually a symptom.
Body size is based on so many individual possibilities. genetics, upbringing, wealth, what type of food you eat, what type of work you do, where you live, etc etc etc. it is impossible to control for all of these.
I was a child born to fat, impoverished, labourer parents, and I grew up doing farm labour, gaining muscle - I will never ever be thin. It’s just how my body developed. And no matter how much weight I were to hypothetically lose, doctors would still push me to lose more. Family would push me to lose more. Society would push me to lose more. It will never ever ever be enough. You will never be thin enough, there is no bmi low enough to satisfy them, there is no “progress” that won’t just make them pity or shame you even more. Your personal circumstances aren’t important to a pseudo-scientific practice, the variables don’t matter that much, it must be a one-size-fits-all solution.
Every weight loss pill, every low calorie shake or meal replacement, every weight watchers frozen meal, it all contributes to the pseudo-scientific cult of thinness. Every ad that says you’re not good enough, it pushes you to drop your critical thinking skills. We have created a world where people think shitting themselves into thinness using potions with untested ingredients is healthier than having some fat on their bodies. But it’s not! That’s absurd! You’re sending your body into a constant state of gastric shock!! And one day, when you get bored of eating tasteless nutrient paste and decide to eat something with some flavour in it, your body will react with a starvation response and store every little bit of fat that it can, because it’s so used to being fucking starved. Which sends people into a panic response, buying up more pills and trying to crash-diet and lose their meagre protective layers.
Your body stores fat because that’s your reserve energy. Fat is protective. I thank my body every day for storing so much energy for me, fuck knows I need it! That’s your blubber!! You are a large mammal. Your body is designed to keep energy in reserve so you can sleep and stay warm and keep your brain alive. You should research the human metabolic process. You should research the cow metabolic process. You should research bear metabolic process. YOU NEED FAT!
And just like so many other pseudosciences, fatphobia and all that it entails is deeply rooted in racism and specifically antiblackness. It is not a mistake that the ozempic-chic era is coinciding with one of the biggest waves of open, globalised white supremacy we’ve seen in decades. Whiteness needs to perform & police whiteness constantly, maintaining appearances is THE way to stay part of the ingroup.
You must commit to removing yourself from that ingroup. Do not allow it a single toe in the door. A pseudoscience, no matter how comforting and easy to digest it may be, is not your friend. It is feeding you lie upon lie upon lie.
“Why must we Madonna/whore the vegetables?” is a phrase I just felt super glue itself in my lexicon immediately
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First image: a screenshot of a tiktok showing a plate of crispy broccoli. Text reads: super crispy roasted broccoli add lots of oil and salt to ur broccoli
She is not a health food by nature that’s just the box you insist on putting her in
Why must we Madonna/whore the vegetables????
Have we lost our capacity for nuance???!!
Second image: a white card with green im calligraphy reading: why must we Madonna/whore the vegetables?
rolling snake eyes is a bad thing. being a snake in the grass is a bad thing. being cold-blooded is a bad thing. the english language is so fucking hostile for snakes why do you hate us so bad
NOT TO MENTION snake oil salesmen are famously sketchy. why do you hate our oils
really funny character concept i will definitely be using some day: oil salesman who is a snake. introduced as a snake oil salesman
he’s a painfully honest and sincere oil salesman. he’s not selling miracle cures he’s telling you exactly what it is. and what it is, is oil. he’s got olive oil coconut oil corn oil. every kind of oil you can think of
this is your periodic reminder that for all the artifacts and errors and “tells” one could possibly list, the only reliable way to actually determine if an image is ai generated is to investigate the source. it is becoming increasingly common for “fake classical paintings” to circulate around curative aesthetic blogs, and everyone should be using this as an opportunity to not only exercise their investigative skills but also appreciate art more in general. you’re all checking out the artists you reblog, right? 🫣
so what are some signs to look for? let’s use this very good example.
Nothing is funnier to me than ppl with rly wild jobs still just being people and having long tired mornings like everyone else. Just heard a doctor in the lab say “I have to go do some cloning” with the same level of enthusiasm I use to say I’m gonna do the dishes.
My new favorite genre of picture is a very special thing that most animals (and humans!) do: face nuzzling as an act of greeting/comfort/intimacy. thank God that this is happening all over the world right now
