DIET CULTURE IS TRYING TO TAKE YOUR MONEY!!! ITS EVIL!!!
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One clichéd trick used by theatrical costumers to convey that an unkempt old lady has dementia, or is truly insane, is to have her wear her bra on the outside of her clothes. I kept thinking about that as I watched Kelsey.
ETA: Also, in times past, inmates of mental hospitals—both male and female—had their heads shorn in order to combat lice infestations. So her buzz-cut is just adding to the impression that she's deeply disturbed.
You'd have to be an absolute mess to look at this woman and decide, "Yeah, she has something great to offer, and I want it! I'm going to hire her as a coach!" Who the fuck is she coaching? Probably the same kinds of sad, broken, directionless people who gravitated to Jude Valentin's Twitch community, only they're all fatgirls.
I know we have a mental health crisis in this country. I know we also have a dire shortage of competent mental health professionals, and that the mental health field has been captured by the IdPol crowd, and that you'll get better help by asking any random old lady on the street for advice (including the one wearing her bra over her clothes), and actually taking it. "Coaches" are a dodgy lot, not necessarily because they lack training or credentials, but because you can always find one to support you in any self-ruinous path you're on.
There's a type of Narcissist that enters "helping" professions (medicine, nursing, social work, mental health, clergy), chooses to work with children, works in the nonprofit sector, champions underdog political causes, or runs for public office on a platform of caring for the disadvantaged. They're the ones who openly declare themselves to be compassionate—or worse, empaths—and exhort others to "be kind." They appear on both ends of the political spectrum, and are sometimes male, but really they're all examples of the same Devouring Mother archetype.
And for the ones who have been failures or dead-enders at doing anything else, and lack the tenacity to get educated and credentialed in a specific "helping" field, "coaching" is pretty much made for them. They get to pass on their worldview and tell others how to think and live their lives—they get to reproduce themselves by making others more like them—with no governing bodies or codes of ethics to intervene.
And Kelsey here is a prime example (as are the others). You don't set yourself up as a fatness coach without having at least strong narcissistic tendencies, because who else is going to be vicious enough to validate their own self-destructive thinking and behavior by supporting others in that same thinking and behavior?
I can't get over the cold, cold eyes on this one. She straight-up gives me the creeps.
Her username is @buildingbetterhumans. And somehow, we're to believe she is in any way qualified to perform that task, or competent at it, while telling people it's perfectly fine to be obese. Yeah, right.
"I believe social/political issues and mental health are deeply related."
And this is why somebody who is unhappy with their fat body—or, frankly, anybody else—should stay the fuck away from her. She's not going to see her clients as individuals, but rather as clusters of politicized identities, some of which (especially whiteness and maleness) she has been brainwashed to see as pathological. She has more than likely bought into the ridiculous belief that rejecting obesity is due to latent racism.
I notice she says she's a licensed counselor—but also a coach. That's odd, because "coaches" primarily exist as a separate, non-credentialed class from counselors, and serve a different purpose (focused, short-term, on a specific desired result, rather than delving into deeper emotional issues). Is the coaching a side gig, separate from the counseling? Is she trying to offer coaching as a separate service from counseling so she's free to encourage clients to embrace their own self-destruction, without being subject to the pesky professional ethics demanded of her as a counselor? It just seems really odd.
