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As in did you hear that beat??

It was ROTUND!!

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[-] admiralteal@kbin.social -2 points 11 months ago

Cool, that's nice. I'm on a different instance than you. It took hours for your comment to even federate, so the implication I'm trying to gotcha you through a self-correction made within 3 minutes of my original post and over 10 minutes before yours is totally bad faith and you know it.

Let's just be clear about what happened here though. I posted something correct about the entire idea of fat-phobia. That is, the way you avoid being fat-phobic is by just not feeling a need to whip out a soap box and tell fat people it's their fault and they've behaved badly to become that way there while knowing nothing about them.

And what did you do? You replied to me, immediately whipping out your soapbox to say that fat people are not "actual" vulnerable groups because anyone who's body doesn't doesn't match your subjective standards can "do something about being fat".

Then started this absolutely moronic verbal diarrhea about how being respectful of other people is somehow a zero sum game where if you treat one population with basic respect, it somehow waters down another group's need to be treated with dignity? Idiotic. Just idiotic. That's the "logic" used by TERFs.

Next time, just shut the fuck up. Seriously, all you had to say was nothing. This is a personal characteristic about someone and you just don't have expertise in it. You don't know what effort they have or haven't made. You don't know what other medical issues may be linked or causal. You don't know whether it's negatively impacting their health, and even if it were, it's still none of your fucking business. All you know is what you can see. Don't worry, the fat people already know you don't like looking at them, so this kind of signaling is unnecessary. Instead, leave them alone and don't preach about their lives of sin.

You want to talk about addressing things with "external stimuli"? Let's talk about the entire skin-bleaching cosmetics industry in SE Asia. The vast apparatus of plastic surgery in places like South Korea designed to change Asian-presenting eyelids to more culturally preferred western features. And don't even get me started about hair care products targeted at Black Americans. The long histories every country and population has pursuing goals to "pass". Telling people they must change to match the subjective standards of idiots for their own good, irrespective of what harm might be done to them along the way.

But what, all that kind of shit is bad and bigoted, but telling an otherwise-healthy but fat person they should get medical interventions because they look fat is fine? Leave people the fuck alone, dude. If there's medical problems going on, that's between them and their medical provider if they so chose.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What do you think of the Jew vs Pally war?

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