Ozempic, fat-phobia, and the moralizing of bodies (extended version- Patreon)
Added 2024-04-20 14:48:01 +0000 UTCHI!
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As someone who treats type-2 in the poor (USA) it burns my behind there is a shortage due rich, vain people and weak greedy doctors. Fatphobia is real and I had to fight my own illogical bias even towards myself. The truth you bring up as fat shaming is real and is aimed harshly towards fat and even more aggressively towards fat black women especially in my area of the USA. Keep putting out your work, it is appreciated and always makes me study deeper on subjects and your talking points to question my presumptions.
Dylan Maxey
2024-05-01 19:18:21 +0000 UTCI think people have a lot less control over their body weight than society thinks they do. Like for me, I steadily gained weight from about late elementary school until after college. And like, I knew logically how to lose weight, and sometimes I would think about it, but I never could stick with it. And it wasn't really for lack of wanting to, there are a million little reasons that came up for me to lose weight. Like moving better, feeling better physically, not wanting to buy more clothes, etc. I had an incredible amount of willpower and I worked really, really hard at school, but that just didn't seem to translate to food. Then at some point in the pandemic, i guess some thing that was out of my control changed and I just, could do it. And I lost over 100 pounds over a year and a half. I'm still the same person. I still have that same work ethic. And it wasn't some big personal decision or resolution that pushed me to, like, "take control of my health" or something. There was just some factor out of my control that changed. It wasn't some moral change or demonstration of work ethic and will power. I'm the same person I've always been. Also I relate to the gender stuff, I too am in a feminine body but am kinda uncomfortable with it. I've been like, experimenting with dressing in more masculine ways but I have a tendency to beat myself up if I don't feel good in those clothes. Idk man it's confusing, it's like, I'm not really totally cis and i feel not good about not being comfortable visually presenting like that. But I'd love to hear the binder recommendations, I'm thinking about trying that. For now I've been trying minimizing bras and I feel like I like how those look with certain shirts, but with other shirts I'm like naw I'm less comfortable and I want the usual bras.
Alyssa Lehmann
2024-04-24 13:53:28 +0000 UTC
