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Why is it that we, as a culture, eat like hedonistic 5-year-olds?

I understand food videos on the internet are not to be taken as gospel, but if you watch Tasty and other online gif-style recipes, everything is sickening. Deep fried cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches that use butter AND mayonnaise, grilled cheese sandwiches with deep-fried macaroni and cheese as bread, cookie dough that’s stuffed with Reese’s and then layered with brownie batter. Recipe after recipe of disgustingly sweet, and fatty foods.

My S.O. showed me a video of a restaurant that serves hamburgers that you dip into a cheese sauce; like, the whole burger. Restaurants serve milkshakes piled with other treats, together adding up to over a day’s worth of calories. A regular fast food restaurant doing deals so you can buy two sandwiches for the price of one, and they’re both calorie-bombs.

At work, a co-worker brings in baked good every day (Brownies, lemon bars, spice cake, etc). My co-workers eat four and five pieces and complain about the calories and keep eating. Laughing about getting diabetes. This is treated as a totally normal thing.

We, as a culture, make jokes about over eating (“It says ‘serves four’ but we know that means 'serves one.’ Amirite?”) We make jokes about eating entire pizzas by ourselves. (On that ticket, we also joke about drinking entire bottles of wine by ourselves.) We make jokes about counting calories (“I tried to lose weight counting calories. I lost count at 5,000.”) and treat counting a single calorie like it’s a full-blown eating disorder. We laugh about not exercising, (“Wait, you said exercise? I heard "Extra fries!”“)

Fat Activists complain they can’t eat anything but salad in public without being judged. So many people have commented when I do it, that I DON’T eat salad in public in anymore. Going to restaurants with friends, co-workers, or acquaintances, I order anything but the salad, because it always turns into a chorus of "Oh, look at thetruebodyposi, being healthy, making us look bad, hahaha, pardon me while I eat real food. How do you survive on bunny food?” Every. fucking. time.

I’m tired. I’m tired of a culture that pushes sugar down my throat. I’m tired of a culture that treats overeating as self-care. I’m tired of a culture that punishes eating raw vegetables and watching your caloric intake like it’s a cardinal sin. I’m tired of people looking at me weird and saying they don’t exercise ever and laugh about it when I talk about getting more athletic. I’m tired of a culture that promotes laziness and eating an entire day’s worth of calories in one shitty fast food meal. I’m tired of hearing about set points and starvation mode and how some people’s bodies treat calories differently and how some people literally cannot lose weight, and why do they insist on putting arms on chairs in public?!  

I’m tired of obesity. I’m tired of a culture that promotes it. I’m tired of the community that fights for me to accept it as normal.

watching the late show hosts’ reactions to the coronavirus is so wild

Wait, I thought when you express concern for a friend or family member’s size or you comment on someone else’s body, it’s just that you have a phobia. Or does that only apply when the scale is going up instead of down?

“She started posting her progress on facebook and it really gets to me”

Now we know what she’s actually upset about; she feels bad about herself and compares herself to her friend who is making an effort to improve her life and practicing real self love.

Got this from reddit.

Can we find the original post?

We need to save that child’s life from this monstrosity disguised as advice!!!

Let’s find this

I’ve heard about some anti fat acceptance blogs being reported and deleted, so I figured this list could come in handy for anyone affected by the deletions (or anyone who wants to follow some awesome blogs):

African American people in the 1800s being denied pretty much all basic privileges, from holding a job to being able to drink out of water fountains. That is, if they weren’t being kept as slaves on plantations. 

Women in the third world being subject to acid attacks or public beatings for doing something like talking back to a man. 

Children being kidnapped and sold into human trafficking. 

Pretty much everyone in North Korea who will be shot for speaking even slightly negatively about Kim Jong Tinylegs.

War veterans being denied the psychiatric care that they need to treat lingering post war traumas because they do not have the money after not having worked a job in years to fight. 

Homeless people beating beaten for fun by children.

Someone having their home desecrated for their skin color or religious beliefs. 

Someone being beaten or murdered for being homosexual or transgender.

Someone being unable to marry the love of their life because their state doesn’t support same sex marriage.

Immigrants in the early 1900s being forced to live in tiny tenement buildings and being unable to work.

Child laborers in the early 1900s being forced to work long hours where they often hurt themselves. 

The working class in the early 1900s being treated unfairly and having basic needs ignored by their superiors.

Not an example of oppression: 

LGBTQ: We can’t marry someone of the same sex. We fear getting beaten or even killed due to not being straight or cisgendered. Protesters tell us we’re going to hell. We have to constantly tell people our preferred pronouns and hope they respect them. We’re told we shouldn’t even exist because of who we are. Less likely to be considered for adoptive parenting.

Women in third-world countries: We can be killed for showing our ankles. Horribly disfigured for denying sex. We have acid thrown on our faces. Our young daughters are sold into sex slavery.

Homeless: Forced to sleep in dumpsters in extreme temperatures. People pay to have spikes put on park benches and under bridges so we have less places to sleep. We're called lazy bums and drains on society, regardless of why we're in our current situation. We go days without anything to eat.

Old tweet that needs to resurface today!