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u/BlackshirtDefense 1d ago
I'm shocked that she's an out of work copywriter who prefers editing male-on-male erotica. Shocked!
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u/Quidplura 1d ago
I thought it was pretty funny that she was in a Bible study group at university and now edits gay erotica.
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u/BeardedDragon1917 1d ago
Almost like her profile was written to be funny, and her posts are written to be ragebait.
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u/Brief_Buddy_7848 1d ago
It’s sad how hard it is to tell the difference these days honestly
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u/BeardedDragon1917 1d ago
I promise you can safely ignore the accounts that feature a severely obese white woman with a brightly colored “SJW” hairstyle as the profile pic. Especially if they produce utterly nonsensical but shallow and easy-to-write takes on racism or fatphobia. Treating them as possibly serious is like keeping open the possibility that you might one day find the real Santa Claus at SantaCon.
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u/WholeGrain_Cocaine 1d ago
If you spend any time at a major university campus you’ll see that these people exist and will publicly spout the same awful takes you find on the internet, so I’m not sure your statement is accurate.
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u/olivegardengambler 1d ago
It happens a lot. Lots of sexual repression as a young adult, and that genie erupts like Mount Vesuvius when they're on their own.
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u/Dr_thri11 1d ago
I get the comment is unhinged. But is the dude just messaging random fat people on LinkedIn to try and get work?
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u/rainbowcarpincho 1d ago
Looking for fat people to pitch your diet plan to is pretty lunatic, yes.
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u/olivegardengambler 1d ago
Especially on a professional social media site. Like if I received one I'd report it for spam/soliciting.
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u/Naive-Wind6676 1d ago
They're both lunatics
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u/jdogg091985 1d ago
I'm as radical left as you can be but equating fat loss peddlers to racism is insane work.
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u/liiiam0707 1d ago
Maybe a little insensitive, but surely that's the target market for diet plans?
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u/rainbowcarpincho 1d ago
That's true. It is perfectly logical, it just requires a lot of dehumanization to pull off.
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u/daisy-duke- 1d ago
Must be satire.
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u/ForagedFoodie 1d ago
If you look them up, it's most definitely not.
And as an obese woman myself, I can tell you I've communicated irl with many people like this--perhaps not to this extreme.
It can be very disheartening to be constantly treated like less than a person, lazy, useless, etc. There are many people who seem to want to write you off across the board once you reach a certain weight (for me at least the threshold seems to be around 220-230). Once I teeter over that, people stop listening to me, even professionally, in my career. I can see why it makes some people crazy and so they try to go the opposite way and make being fat their entire personality as a defense mechanism.
That said, antifat =antiblack is super nuts. But sadly, 100% not a satire account.
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u/clamsandwich 1d ago
I'm so sorry you have to deal with that bullshit. I know that for some people there are medical issues that cause obesity, others psychological issues, some just lifestyle choices, and others have other factors at play, but the fact of the matter is that we all (fat, skinny, muscular, everything on between) have our struggles and nobody should be judged or treated as less-than for it. It is unhealthy and it should be treated as such like other unhealthy situations, but I can't think of similarly unhealthy things that people get treated so harshly for - smokers aren't looked down upon as much as obese people, so the judgment based on health is pretty much BS. I think some people just find it "ugly" and ugly=morally wrong, and that's just unfair.
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u/ForagedFoodie 1d ago
Oh its ok! I wasn't looking for sympathy. Personally, I'm in a very good place. My husband adores me, I am incredibly successful at work (right now). And I do know my weight is unhealthy. But I stay active.
I've struggled with thyriod disease my whole life. My mom had undiagnosed Graves disease while pregnant and breastfeeding me, and it screwed up my endocrine system permanently. I had my thyriod out last year, with precancerous tumors. Now trying to get a medication balance is tricky.
But most of it is just on me. I love wine, beer and whiskey, all of which are empty calories.
What I'm saying is that i understand why someone with less of a support system would find it difficult to cope.
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u/DJBlandy Agree? 1d ago
Thanks for sharing your story. When I first saw this post I cringed opening the comments preparing for some anti-fat bullshit. It's in here for sure. The way fat people are treated is insane. If someone is DMing you about your weight and it's unsolicited, they're a shitty person. Yeah, her comparison to anti-blackness is bizarre. But I do think it's exhausting to deal with the rhetoric surrounding fatness.
Shout out to Maintenance Phase and Aubrey Gordon for changing my whole outlook.
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u/loveinvein 13h ago
Hello fellow higher weight person. You should read “fearing the black body” by Sabrina strings, or the article by Aubrey Gordon “the bizarre and racist history of bmi.”
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u/tipareth1978 1d ago
You haven't seen fatlogic
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u/daisy-duke- 1d ago
That still exist?!! I'm old enough to remember the other one.
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u/tipareth1978 1d ago
I'm just speaking to the phenomenon of "being fat is a minority status and doctors are committing crimes against humanity by recommending weight loss etc"
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u/Pitiful-Pension-6535 1d ago
being fat is a minority status
Not in the US it's not. Over ¾ of American adults are overweight.
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u/Final-Film-9576 1d ago
How is it not racist to assume anti-fatness means anti-blackness...like is she saying all blacks are fat?
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u/WorldsGreatestWorst 1d ago
How is it not racist to assume anti-fatness means anti-blackness...like is she saying all blacks are fat?
Dayna is an imbecile. But there is an almost imperceivable kernel of truth to what they’re claiming that got distorted by perpetually online Redditors trying to deflect criticism or concern about their obesity.
Some sociologists look at the developing views of the ideal body during and after the slave trade and point out that the female ideal shifted from what we’d now consider to be chubby to thin over this time. A theory is that this was caused as a reaction to the “thicker” African builds (think stereotypical hips and curves).
The idea was, “you don’t want to look like an undisciplined slave, do you?” Such sociologists would also cite things like BMI as a flawed racially biased metric for the same reasons many women with big boobs or butts do—it can take a perfectly healthy person and condemn them as lazy and out of shape.
Also black people in the US are far more likely to be obese than white people. This allows folks like this to call “fatphobia” racist, even though it would be far more reasonable to call the reasons *for** obesity in the black community* racist—poverty, food deserts, etc. But those kinds of more reasonable criticisms don’t allow middle class white people to hide behind racism.
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u/kangaroospider 1d ago
Seems more likely to me that it's a case of correct conclusion, but the wrong path to get there.
It would be more likely that pre-industrialization that fatness was seen as a symbol of wealth, but afterwards fatness became more accessible to everyone and now things that cause fatness like having to work multiple jobs and eating cheap ultraprocessed foods is because of poverty. Whereas wealthy people have more time to do healthy meal planning and incorporate movement into their routines.
That said, if it is more of a class thing it's still inherently racist because of reasons you cited that systemically harm black people more than others.
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u/WorldsGreatestWorst 1d ago
Seems more likely to me that it's a case of correct conclusion, but the wrong path to get there.
I'm not necessarily cosigning this theory, just saying there is a sociological basis for it and it's not ridiculous at face value.
It would be more likely that pre-industrialization that fatness was seen as a symbol of wealth... and now things that cause fatness like having to work multiple jobs and eating cheap ultraprocessed foods is because of poverty. Whereas wealthy people have more time to do healthy meal planning and incorporate movement into their routines.
I would say this is a brute fact. Poverty and genetics are the best indicators of obesity. It's impossible to talk about obesity without talking about wealth and it's impossible to talk about wealth without talking about race.
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u/ratbum 1d ago
If you believe this is real, DM me. I have some great NFTs to sell you
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u/Meddling-Yorkie 1d ago
Someone commented on their post saying it’s satire and they responded it’s not. They also say they identify as “super fat” in their bio and want to grab children.
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u/PandaXXL 1d ago
It's real, a quick once over of their LinkedIn, instagram and website confirms it.
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u/Unreal_Alexander 1d ago
What is a Mastercheck UK semi-finalist? Google isn't giving me anything that makes sense. This seems fake.
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u/notarealquokka 1d ago
Fat acceptance has grown increasingly more batshit with the widespread adoption of GLP-1 agonists. Obesity activists abandoned their cause in droves when Ozempic went mainstream. What’s left today is a rump of hysteria and resentment. Anyone parroting fat acceptance nonsense in 2025 is likely to be certifiable.
Fuck me but I wish I’d invested in Novo Nordisk back in 2021.
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u/lucky_719 1d ago
Why? The stock was $35 back then and is $65 now. Not a bad return but nothing life-changing either.
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u/funkwgn 1d ago
That’s a near-doubled investment, nothing to scoff at!
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u/lucky_719 1d ago
In the last 5 years? May as well just toss the money at the S&P500. It did the same and you're more diversified.
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u/funkwgn 1d ago
Fair enough! I just wouldn’t have been mad at my return in this rhetorical situation.
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u/lucky_719 1d ago
Any gains are good gains but novo Nordisk isn't really wishful thinking level here.
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u/notarealquokka 1d ago
2021 was my year of bad investments and heartburn. Sold most of my Bitcoin in late 2020 thinking it had peaked. Made a lot of foolish decisions chasing immediate returns rather than taking a long term approach. I skipped good, solid buys like Novo Nordisk in favour of… Kogan. And that was one of my better picks!
I take a very hands off, long term approach these days. And stay far away from wsb.
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u/DJBlandy Agree? 1d ago
huh? semaglutide is widely considered a modern medical marvel. why do so many people fucking hate fat people so much. I really don't get it.
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u/rainbowcarpincho 1d ago edited 1d ago
But it's not about being thin, it's about being healthy. And what's healthier than heart problems, pancreatitis, hypoglycemia, and thyroid tumors, all potential side effects of Ozempic? /s
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u/wargames_exastris 1d ago
Pancreatitis in ozempic patients occurs at a rate of 3 per 1000 patient-years. Meaning that you’d need 10 people on the drug continuously for 33 years to encounter 1 case of ozempic-derived pancreatitis.
By comparison, 30 year mortality rates (deaths, not just illnesses) for class 3 obesity is 6-8/1000. About 10% of Americans meet that criteria (BMI>40 or BMI>35 with 1+ weight associated medical conditions). 7 of the 10 leading causes of death in the US in the last year prior to Covid were obesity-adjacent.
The potential link between ozempic and thyroid tumor has not been born out in human studies. The warnings exist solely because of rodent studies and humans, in fact, are not rats.
GLP-1 drugs have overwhelmingly shown benefit to heart health in the broadest sense- rate of adverse events and survival of adverse events both improve markedly. There’s small amount of evidence regarding loss of heart muscle tissue but it’s mostly in rodent studies and would be consistent with overall loss in organ and skeletal muscle mass experienced by an individual who engages in extreme caloric restriction without specific protein-sparing considerations (which is a central aspect of all ozempic treatment). Simply eating adequate protein solves these problems.
Hypoglycemia is just low blood sugar and it’s primarily caused by not eating. GLP-1 related hypoglycemia is addressed by reminding the patient that they do still need to eat something.
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u/imabroodybear 1d ago
Potential side effects of Ozempic vs known elevated risks for all the things associated with being in overweight or obese. Why are you so judgmental about people taking a life-changing medicine?
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u/BmacIL 1d ago
And outside of truly morbidly obese, nobody should be taking that drug to lose weight.
Diet is the vast majority of the problem and Americans have been programmed and brainwash marketed to for decades on what's healthy to eat.
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u/casa_laverne 1d ago
I’ve lost 70 pounds on zepbound and I’m now a very healthy weight. It’s a tool that helps me make good decisions 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Doneuter 1d ago
Not really the same thing but I worked with a woman who was of average weight who decided to have lap-band surgery, and at the time we were close and before the procedure she asked my opinion. I advised her she should do whatever makes her happy, but I expressed that doing something surgical can have major complications, and I'd be so worried about having a difficult recovery and how things could go wrong and how hard it might be to deal with.
Didn't see her back at work for nearly a year. I honestly thought she quit, but no. Complications with surgery had made her life hell. We worked a super easy help desk job and she had to quit because she couldn't sit and work for an entire 8 hour shift.
Last I heard from her life was a downward spiral after that, but hey she married a guy who changed all her social media into "couples accounts" and then removed all male friends such as myself, so that was nice.
Definitely not the same thing, but watching that unfold was wild, and got me on track to learn more about good science and dieing myself into the best shape of my life. It's been a few years and I hope things got better.
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u/imabroodybear 1d ago
That’s uninformed - why should this drug be reserved for the morbidly obese? The majority of overweight people have already tried and failed at diet and exercise as a solution, some of them for decades. This drug is enormously beneficial to all of their health outcomes. Why shouldn’t they take it?
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u/Ragverdxtine 1d ago
Why not?
People have been giving fat people shit for DECADES, finally we invent something that actually works for more than 1% of people (look up literally any study on the effectiveness of dietary changes - almost everyone gains the weight back within less than 5 years and then more added on) and people are still bitching.
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u/DJBlandy Agree? 1d ago
Everyone: lose weight you fatty!
*person loses weight with with semaglutide*Uh wait, no, not like that. you gotta lose weight THE RIGHT WAY.
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u/Ragverdxtine 1d ago
You have to SUFFER! Unlike literally any other medical condition where people can just take medication and everyone’s fine with it 🤣
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u/DJBlandy Agree? 1d ago
Right?? Lol. Less concern about Opioids than GLP-1. People just fucking hate fatness.
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u/BmacIL 1d ago
Most dietary changes are ineffective because people go into them with the mindset that I just have to do it for a while and not actually make effective lifestyle changes. Also, most of the typical American diet, even "healthy" ones are loaded with highly addictive foods that cause inflammation and tons of other health problems.
GLP-1 is a good thing. People who are too heavy to exercise need things like this. It's a useful tool but it's not what everyone should be using.
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u/ToWriteAMystery 1d ago
But why? Why shouldn’t people use a drug that will make that part easy?
I think that’s the question. What is wrong about using GLP-1 to maintain a healthy weight for normal people?
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u/Ok_Purpose7401 1d ago
It’s expensive and reports make it seem like you need stay on it for life.
Again, it’s a great solution if you are obese. But it really shouldn’t be considered for ppl who are like 30 lbs overweight or something.
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u/ToWriteAMystery 1d ago
Right, but I’m asking why. Birth control is a drug I will be on for probably close to 40 years by the time I hit menopause because pregnancy is a life-threatening event, so we’ve decided life-long birth control makes sense.
How are GLP-1s any different than that? Obesity is a life-threatening condition, far more than pregnancy, and is totally preventable with GLP-1s. So why would it be bad to be on that medication for life?
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u/Ana-Hata 1d ago
I’m the person they didn’t work for.
I had been honestly maintaining a 1200-1500 a day calorie diet with no results for almost a year, and I thought they might kick up my metabolism or something, but no go.
They might have made me less hungry,but I ve learned to ignore hunger. What I can’t ignore is I get dizzy, light-headed and weak if I drop my food intake below where it is now.
i give up, I’m what I am. I’m not obese, I just barely qualified for the drug with a 28 BMI. It was a real disappointment.
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u/Deriniel 1d ago
tbh it seems it had a lot of benefit (Which i currently can't recall) beside fat losing. But honestly, if someone can pay to lose fat and still enjoy eating, why not go for it?Yes, it's not optimal, yes, exercise is better,overall,for your body, but better to not exercise and not be overweight,than not exercise and be overweight
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u/Late_For_Username 1d ago
Bad food tastes really good.
I'm also really good at finding the worst foods to eat. I would literally be thinner eating ice cream for every meal compared to the foods I was eating.
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u/cloudyskytoday 1d ago
2 Lunatics interacting. Of course weight loss is not like racism (though I understand there's lots of biases toward fat people) but also reaching out on LI, a PROFESSIONAL network, and giving weight loss advice or wishes out of the blue is very insulting. And then asking for connection? What the hell?
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u/JoBoltaHaiWoHotaHai 1d ago
The first part is the other person's bio. That's not part of the message
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u/XmasWayFuture 1d ago
It would be funny to see how many conservatives unironically angry at such obvious bait, but then I remember this kind of trolling is one of many reasons why they are so disillusioned to the point of delusion.
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u/breausephina 1d ago
Ah, so I see that many of you have not experienced the joys of fat acceptance activism. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not making value judgments on anyone based on their size, it's not my body and not my business. But yeah, this kind of twisting of historical narratives and ethical twisting is du jour in a certain activist space. The YouTuber Megan Anne has some great breakdowns of the movement, and IMO the Spurious substack is required reading.
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u/BeardedDragon1917 1d ago
This sub is going to be ruined by people posting obvious ragebait and satire. It's already been mostly ruined by people on LinkedIn trying to go viral by creating the ragebait to be featured here. The whole point of this sub was to point and laugh at the bizarre things people say when they're completely bought in to corporate culture and feel the need to make social media content about it. Now its just, "somebody posted something weird on LinkedIn!"
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u/HyakushikiKannnon 1d ago
The real lunatics are the posters on this sub. Their brains are too fried to recognize obvious ragebait.
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u/agent-bagent Agree? 1d ago
Mod here. You can lookup the profile on LinkedIn. This is clearly not ragebait or satire.
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u/HyakushikiKannnon 1d ago
3 Things:
1) I'd rather continue to believe otherwise, or it'd be too much for me. 2) Either way, earlier statement does stand more often than not. 3) I'd really rather not search for this. To preserve my sanity and my feed.
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u/agent-bagent Agree? 1d ago
Either way, earlier statement does stand more often than not.
FWIW, this was the main reason I volunteered to be part of the new mod team. And I know I speak for the rest of the new mods too, we are genuinely trying to remove obvious satire/ragebait as the posts come in. With the exception of "Satire Saturdays" (not ragebait) where we allow those posts. Our goal with that is more aimed at the repeated Ken M stuff.
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u/HyakushikiKannnon 1d ago
It's been quite distressing to see all the make believe lunacy as is there weren't enough of the real kind around. But it's reassuring to hear there's people actually working to curate it now. Thank you for your service 🫡
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u/Traditional_Curve401 1d ago
Dayna is saying that all Black people are fat with this false equivalency she came up with 😒🙄
No, weight loss isn't "anti-fat"; toxic diet culture is the fat phobic bull that's anti-fat.
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u/genderantagonist 1d ago
no shes not. read this https://nyupress.org/9781479886753/fearing-the-black-body/
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u/genderantagonist 1d ago
... they're right tho. fatphobia is directly tied to racism and always has been. read this book
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u/ecostyler 1d ago
they truly dgaf, they just want to dunk on someone aesthetically lower on the totem pole than them and not consider realities outside of their own. just zero attempts at empathy.
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u/Blarglephish 1d ago
If anti-fatness is anti-blackness, as this LI claims, are they equating fatness with blackness?
If so … TIL I am black
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u/gameraturtle 2h ago
If you’re overweight, I think that means you are appropriating black culture. And that’s racist.
And trying to lose weight is racism. Oh, and being thin is anti-black and racist as well.
So good luck figuring out your target weight.
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u/Tough_Tangerine7278 17h ago
I’ve heard this elsewhere. It has to do with body standards throughout decades being slim and white. Sometimes it’s spurious. Others believe white women have a certain body type, so do East Asian, so do black, etc.
I’m not saying it’s correct; it just is their logic. Billions of bodies vary beautifully around the world, too much for specific races to claim svelteness or curves or whatever.
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u/ZapRowsdower34 1d ago
As a fat person, yeah, I’d be extremely pissed if someone hit me up on LinkedIn with unsolicited weight loss advice. Ashvy is one rude bitch.
But Dayna’s response is fucking batshit. Everyone sucks here.
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u/JoBoltaHaiWoHotaHai 1d ago
As a fat person, yeah, I’d be extremely pissed if someone hit me up on LinkedIn with unsolicited weight loss advice. Ashvy is one rude bitch.
The first part isn't part of the message, that's Ashvy's bio.
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u/ZapRowsdower34 1d ago
And why is she reaching out to this fat woman out of the blue?
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u/TheWanderer78 1d ago
Her LinkedIn is a master class in how to bullshit a bunch of nonsense to feign accomplishment.
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u/Negative-Door1029 1d ago
Writes gay erotica and children’s books. If it’s not a parody this is literally exactly what republicans have been saying 😂
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u/freshalien51 1d ago
This is one whole ass confusing LinkedIn post, anti-fatness is anti blackness? What does that even mean?
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u/Concerned-Statue 1d ago
People get too upset about individual opinions. "This one person on this planet of 8 billion people does not agree with me...we must riot!" Take a breath, my friend. It's not a big deal.
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u/Unlikely-Guide939 1d ago
This woman’s clearly never been to the south. You could easily argue that there’s a correlation between fatness and racism. Anti fatness and racism no chance
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u/DisplayAppropriate28 1d ago
Loonies loonin' loonies, no victims found.
Ten bucks says Dr. Ashvy's effortless holistic root cause solution to obesity has nothing to do with mere symptoms like "what you eat" and "how you act".
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u/Mission-Carry-887 1d ago
“Eradicate my very existence”
So when I lose weight I am eradicating myself.
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u/Own_City_1084 1d ago
eradicate my very existence
Lmao
So, what, wanting to end homelessness = wanting to eradicate the homeless?
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u/NotoriousMOT 19h ago
ESH on that screenshot. Both the HAES mouthpiece and the spammer cold-selling her snakeoil (no reputable weight-loss professional would use the slimy connect-then-slide-into-dms-with-salespitch).
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u/loveinvein 13h ago
Yes.
Read “fearing the black body” but Sabrina strings.
Or if books are too much for you, search for “the bizarre and racist history of bmi” by Aubrey Gordon.
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u/OrdinaryService8148 7h ago
This is why Trump is in power because as crazy and childish he may be, he'll never be as crazy or as childish as people like this. Unfortunately, most people who lean left and call themselves centrist, have this exact same viewpoint.
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u/DCChilling610 1d ago
This is a common talking point for these fat activists, most of whom are white women.
They’re delusional and as anti-science as the conservatives they hate.
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u/ecostyler 1d ago
there is academic and historical basis for the correlation between fatphobia and antiblackness. snarking this person is not doing what you think it does if you dont care to read or challenge yourself widely parroted pov on the subject of fatness and weight discrimination.
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u/kimmyxrose 1d ago
I have news for Dayna - I am very black and very skinny. Now what?
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u/genderantagonist 1d ago
not what she meant, read this https://nyupress.org/9781479886753/fearing-the-black-body/
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u/JoBoltaHaiWoHotaHai 1d ago
Revoking your black card. Please collect your anti-black card from the office.
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u/Formal-Hospital-8523 Narcissistic Lunatic 1d ago
She doesn't have to post any of this. She likely enjoys the vitriol it brings to her probably unfavorable existence. This is just sad.
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u/Important_Shower_420 1d ago
People will do anything but eat less and move more. It’s always some kind of wild ass excuse or reason. If you’re really truly happy being big boned then shut up about it and stop complaining about others choices and wanting the assistance to lose weight and get healthier. Be fat and happy and leave us alone.
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u/forkinthenode 1d ago
Am I seeing clearly that the person posting this is anti blackness narrative is white? I did at least 6 double takes.