i recently learnt that many nuns were not the devout and chaste women that males would love us, and have continuously forced us, to be — and, for a non-trivial amount of women, being a nun had very little to do with submission to a male “God”

in many medieval and early modern European societies, women (and particularly lesbians) became nuns because it was one of the very few ways to escape marriage, (marital) rape, childbirth and a lifetime of exploitation by her husband — though, of course, the vast risks of male violence by religious men in the church remained

convents were one of the extremely rare places where women could access formal education and intellectual communities. here, women could learn how to read and write, and gain a broad education in theology, philosophy, music, languages, medicine and other areas

certain nuns, particularly abbesses of wealthy convents, had considerable authority which she could never have achieved in the outside world — including managing estates, controlling finances, and negotiating with political and religious authorities

in other words, it was more desirable for many women to pay a religious dowry and sell herself to “God”, than to pay a marital dowry and be sold by her family, and by society, to a man

of course, many convents were extremely abusive institutions, and the experiences of women differed greatly dependent on her social class and the historical period in question

She does not look remotely healthy, and anorexia is *thee* most deadly mental illness that exists.

Your teeth and hair may start to fall out and you’re cold all the time and you bruise much easier and your joints ache and the fat that’s supposed to cushion basic parts of your body, like your feet while walking, just isn’t there to protect you.

One of the first success stories of a GLP-1 was a young man who has a disorder where his body doesn’t accumulate fat. In his case, he was eating himself into liver damage and heart disease but he still had no fat on his body. The GLP-1 cured the desire to keep eating so they could keep him alive, but he still has no fat stores on his body.

Walking still becomes painful because there’s no fat on his feet.