Hi. In today's episode, Katy Stoll looks at America's obsession with weight, how social media has made this obsession worse, and how we can be more empatheti...
has had a longstanding /r/FatPeopleHate fixation that didn’t go away when that sub was banned. Chanting “CALORIES IN CALORIES OUT” was another technically correct way to be a hateful asshole under pretense of concern that was actually concern trolling. They wanted overweight people to be miserable and to suffer to get off to their vaguely higher position on the social acceptability hierarchy.
It isn’t directly personal to me. I’m in good shape for my age, all things considered. But I have loved ones that are overweight, are putting in real effort to be healthier all the same, and yes, weight obsession doesn’t help them at all and I think at this point the cruelty from those howling about it is intentional.
has had a longstanding /r/FatPeopleHate fixation that didn’t go away when that sub was banned. Chanting “CALORIES IN CALORIES OUT” was another technically correct way to be a hateful asshole under pretense of concern that was actually concern trolling. They wanted overweight people to be miserable and to suffer to get off to their vaguely higher position on the social acceptability hierarchy.
It isn’t directly personal to me. I’m in good shape for my age, all things considered. But I have loved ones that are overweight, are putting in real effort to be healthier all the same, and yes, weight obsession doesn’t help them at all and I think at this point the cruelty from those howling about it is intentional.
Is it? The first law of thermodynamics applies to closed systems
I used to know a mod of that sub. He is now a cop and officer in the national guard, so that tracks.