Think Big, Badly
In the comments, Mr Muldoon steers us to this item of possible interest:
As the fat-positivity movement has gained momentum, so, too, have debates around how fat folks should lead healthy lives. [Sonalee] Rashatwar, though, considers how sizeism is affected by racism, misogyny, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism, and she counsels people against intentional weight loss.
Well, we mustn’t be practical. That wouldn’t be woke. And regaining viable proportions, such that one’s health is not at risk and one’s lifespan needlessly shortened, sounds way too much like work and responsibility. Instead, attention is displaced to a more theoretical, and conveniently improbable, project:
Rashatwar traces contemporary fatphobia to colonial brutality and how enslaved people were treated. Citing researcher-advocate Caleb Luna, Rashatwar said curing anti-fatness would mean dismantling society’s foundation: “I love to talk about undoing Western civilisation because it’s just so romantic to me.”
Hm. Lose weight, or topple Western civilisation? It’s the fat person’s eternal dilemma.
Ms Rashatwar is a “community organiser” and “Instagram therapist,” a self-styled healer and woman of insight, and is therefore not at all grandiose, self-excusing or pathologically unrealistic. And so, her therapeutic endeavours include posting “really, really political and radical content” about how terrible capitalism is, how terrible the police are, and how righteous it is to be obese and consequently to live with needless limitations and increasing discomfort.
Ms Rashatwar has chosen to blame her own health issues, including high blood pressure, on “weight stigma” and “white supremacy,” rather than on her size and prodigious eating habits. When not equating routine health advice with eugenics and “Nazi science,” Ms Rashatwar, a self-described “donut queen,” claims that “diet culture and fat phobia are forms of sexual violence.”
The being named Caleb Luna, mentioned above, has cropped up here before. Readers are welcome to ponder said being’s credibility as a “researcher-advocate,” an authority to cite.
every time we put the food WE want to eat in our shopping cart instead of the food
normal and sensiblethin people want us to eatAs a thin(ner than her) person, I don’t *want* her to eat anything. I’m utterly indifferent to her dietary choices. She probably wouldn’t believe it, but I’m a firm believer in letting people destroy themselves (and only themselves) however they see fit.
She probably wouldn’t believe it, but I’m a firm believer in letting people destroy themselves (and only themselves) however they see fit.
Well, to be fair there are a great number of food and diet nazis out there and many of them actually are somewhat responsible, in a small way, for her being so fat. I have never been significantly overweight, yet I have had annoying encounters, usually with leftist types that fatty here is even more likely to run into, with food nazis.
This cholesterol obsession that drove us away from eating the things that were good for us into eating the things that are bad for us is to blame for a lot of the fat that even most normal people have. Even as a teenager it was obvious to me that the cholesterol got into the cow and the pig via the things that the cows and pigs eat and that the animals, aside from man, who eat cows and pigs don’t seem to have these issues. I have also had significant suspicions about the salt thing. Oh, and the BS about eating a substantial breakfast even if one does not feel hungry early in the morning. There are a lot of dietary busybodies in this world.
Arrogant, entitled, and with your own zip code is no way to go through life.
Thanks Farnsworth for a great morning laugh. What came to mind, too, is that when #1 daughter (RN) was a newly minted paramedic, she was partnered one day with another new paramedic woman. The dispatcher decided to ‘welcome prank’ her by sending the two out on a transport call. A particularly obsese young man — one of those Jabba the Hut sizes, bedbound, covered in little more than a sheet — that had regular dialysis appointment. Gals arrive just expecting a dialysis transport. Knowing they’d never live it down if they called for help, they figured out how to get this guy on a backboard>stretcher>rolled to curb>into back of ambulance. My daughter is about 5’6″ but had been doing a lot of upper body strength training prior to training (and had been an EMT).
This psychobitch never thinks about what she puts others through via her aggressive gluttony.
Arrogant, entitled, and with your own zip code is no way to go through life.
Or, since she thinks of herself as the SMOD of Western civilization, “with her own IAU number”. 😛
#1 daughter (RN)
I salute her.
Thanks Farnsworth for a great morning laugh.
Dean Wormer did nothing wrong.
Thought this Harvard student’s estimate of SJWs being only 5% of the student population might cheer everyone up.
So the other 95% are a bunch of pussies who let just 5% of the campus population make decisions on what they should do and what they should think? Yeah, I’m not feeling much cheer.
Not impressed. The issue is not the number of loudmouth loons, it’s that the administration accommodates them at every turn. If the administration grew a pair and told these flapjaw whackadoos and their faculty cheerleaders to take a hike then there would be no problem. Unfortunately there seems to be a vat in a secret lab that grows college administrators from a union of jellyfish and headless chickens.
Far fewer than 5% of Germans worked in the camps, but I would not dismiss the camps significance.
I’m like wondering how the state of Michigan hasn’t shut this down.
If you click through to the ticket prices – “POC” general admission ticket price = $20; NonPOC = $40.
Wonder if they’ll have the entrance employees equipped with paint chips to make sure you’re the right shade of tan for the $20 ticket you hold.
Wonder if they’ll have the entrance employees equipped with paint chips to make sure you’re the right shade of tan for the $20 ticket you hold.’
This immediately came to mind: ”Nazi policies labeled centuries-long residents in German territory who were not ethnic Germans such as Jews, Romanis, along with the vast majority of Slavs, and most non-Europeans as inferior non-Aryan subhumans in a racial hierarchy that placed the Herrenvolk (“master race”) of the Volksgemeinschaft (“people’s community”) at the top.
One could envisage an official assigned to check racial purity of “POC”, i.e. those wanting to buy $20.00 passes, much like in this old photo:
Hi Darleen,
I suspect not too many tickets will be sold to the Wakandastravaganza.
Are your relatives in the earthquake zone OK?
Hi Pogonip,
Yes, the cousins are ok. Lots of interior damage to the household – dishes, ceramics, pantry food on the floor, mirrors and pictures off the walls. But so far (fingers crossed) there doesn’t seem to be any structural damage. Their house was built in the 1990s so tighter building codes for the structure plus things like water heater must be strapped to wall. Thanks for asking.
Glad to hear it!
David, can hamsters climb trees?
Pogonip: any old tree? And what, if any, incentives (e.g. a fox pursuing ‘red hand and hot trod’ so to speak_) might be on offer?
Beats me. I was doing this puzzle “Things That Climb Trees,” and “hamster” was one of the answers. That didn’t sound right to me.
P.S. I saw a red fox in a tree once. Not sure about the grays, we don’t have them around here.
Well, it doesn’t meet the definition of arboreal, but I once saw a motivated hamster climb a 14′ curtain in under 10 seconds. I was busy picking off the highly-motivated cat who was on his heels before she made it too high to grab, so no telling about her window-treatment speed accomplishments but she was rather bitter about the whole thing. Possibly a record was at stake. Or more likely just the hamster.
So, dunno if that helps – I suppose it depends on your other choices, though if hamster and grey fox were on the menu it seems like a pretty esoteric definition. What about goats, now? There’re whole calendars full of tree-climbing goats.
You don’t make up computer puzzles by any chance, do you?😄
“I’m like wondering how the state of Michigan hasn’t shut this down.”
Hmm. Someone can’t spell “ensure”.
Getting back to the original topic:
https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/01/how-to-have-fat-sex/
Everyday Feminism comes through again!😊
Well, to be fair there are a great number of food and diet nazis out there and many of them actually are somewhat responsible, in a small way, for her being so fat. I have never been significantly overweight, yet I have had annoying encounters, usually with leftist types that fatty here is even more likely to run into, with food nazis.
There’s lots of anti-alcohol nazis out there too. As much as they piss me off, I don’t blame them for my excessive consumption of alcohol.
And the anti-porn types are even more strident, because even fewer people are prepared to publicly stand up and defend porn so they never have to face anyone down. I think considering the zealots as responsible, even for a moment, for another person’s over use of pornography would be odd.
everydayfeminism.com/2017/01/how-to-have-fat-sex/
That’s easy. You roll them in flour and look for the wet spot. [ rim shot ]
Thank you, thank you very much. I’m here all week. Don’t forget to tip your server.
Pogonip: Huh. Wish I could plausibly argue it was my Mad Skillz, but honestly it was more like a lucky WAG. Happy to help in any case.
And the anti-porn types are even more strident, because even fewer people are prepared to publicly stand up and defend porn so they never have to face anyone down.
Paging Tom Lehrer!!
I think considering the zealots as responsible, even for a moment, for another person’s over use of pornography would be odd.
You don’t have to consume alcohol. You don’t have to watch porn. We all have to eat and when these dietary food nazis are pushing the wrong food, the wrong diet, a diet that is marginally responsible for people being fat, then they are marginally responsible for the result. I said in a small way. I’m not excusing her overall behavior. I kinda thought that was obvious. You know, when I said “in a small way”. Small. Like 2%.
Everyday Feminism comes through again!
I’ll go with, “You are not getting that it is so just like thin sex that you murdered 1300 innocent words to tell why it is not, and described some of your personal “fat accessable” workarounds”, and by workarounds, I mean around (bad-um tissh).
When she sits around the house, she sits AROUND the house.
A wristwatch on each hand because she covers two timezones.
Hey, if Steve E. can reach back to 1983, I can dig to 1975.
Longer bayonets.
Pogonip, I remember reading in Thoreau’s journal, “If you see a turtle on a tree stump you can be sure it didn’t get there by itself.” I assume that goes for unstumped trees as well.
Saw this earlier and just knew it would end up at David’s place.
I think it’s all a rather obvious and desperate plea for help. Like someone holding a knife to their own throat, except instead it’s a fork full of diabetes. I don’t know how she could make it more clear than “tear down everything – EVERYTHING – because I can’t stop eating!”.
That and some good old fashioned Sailer’s Law.
I think it’s all a rather obvious and desperate plea for help.
Ayup. Just like cutting and pills.