Really? If anything I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.
She's totally bought into this idea that she's not the problem. So when something happens and people tell her to sit down and shut up she can't handle it.
We’ve long been talking about fatness as a consequence of overconsumption, and certainly it is the most obvious, but the biggest issue I’ve been noticing these days is the inherent narcissism of obesity. I used to know a woman who was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder as a teenager, and instead of outgrowing it, she became an alcoholic and her BPD became NPD as well. The BPD laid down the disordered framework for NPD, but without the alcoholism, I think she could have been just a regular borderline who feels enough empathy to get mad at herself for being a bitch to others and slices up her arms. Fine. But addiction changes things. An addict’s need to consume their preferred drug (or behavior, ie gambling) will change them in ways that limit their ability to remain fully human (and yes, I consider empathy to be The Thing that makes one “fully” human, but it’s more of a rhetorical device).
Have you ever met anyone seriously addicted, as in willing to rob a bank or suck a dick, for magic mushrooms or normal, leaf-based marijuana? Before cannabis was largely legalized in the states and they started inventing all these weird concentrates (wax, shatter, whatever they call it, I don’t know because I don’t touch it), and putting shroom bits in chocolate bars, was anyone going to
extremes for these substances? Shroom-picking in a thunderstorm is about the riskiest story I ever heard from before the year 2015, and every Swede I’ve ever known is doing this for the sake of chanterelles, so it’s not jumping out to me as particularly dangerous.
I think the addictive potential of sugar is far underrated. I think we would all agree that crack cocaine is one of the most addictive substances out there (and I know they’re coming out with new shit every day, and frankly that makes my point for me), but what is crack, really? Crack is a form of very refined cocaine powder. What is cocaine? It is a very refined form of the coca leaf, which you could pluck from a bush and stick in your mouth and chew and get a little bitty buzz from, like you would from nicotine or caffeine (and of course don’t forget that even in only slightly-processed plant form, tobacco leaves and coffee beans can still addict a human). Now, take a bunch of those leaves, cook em up, add some kind of catalyst, stir it up, grind it up, dry it out, whatever, and now you have cocaine. Plenty of people will destroy their lives for cocaine. Refine it even more, and you’ve got crack, which has the power to destroy entire communities, not just individual lives.
Obviously, we need food to survive and I’m sure history is full of examples of humans committing murder over access to food, but in the modern American landscape, where we have entire, large buildings full of foodstuffs that the average person can just walk into (the doors even open themselves!), where most people can afford basic groceries, or if they can’t, they can get on food stamps, or go to a food bank, or show up at a church, do we have an issue with people robbing banks for a single apple? Even a bag of apples meant to last a week—have you ever known anyone to go to extreme lengths to get their hands on
fruit? I have not. But take that apple and refine it until it’s juice. Have you ever seen a kid flip out over a juice box? I have. Put that apple juice in a pot and boil it until most of the liquid is gone and all you have are syrup or even just the sugar crystals itself. Now you have something people will consume despite the detriment to themselves. Let’s pretend I started this example with an ear of corn (I didn’t because corn is harder to consume), and you’ve got corn syrup. Refine it and fuck it up again to get high fructose corn syrup, and you have the potential to destroy entire societies.
Jaebae is acting like an absolute fucking
crackhead because her drug of choice is the highly-processed, refined sugar and oils of the standard American diet, and they are as far removed from real food as crack cocaine is from the humble coca leaf, but with a potential for devastation that far exceeds that of crack cocaine, but she has no fucking clue, because she and LindA fucking Bacon and everyone else in the HAES movement have gaslit themselves and others into thinking “there are no bad foods.” Because weight affects physical attractiveness and we don’t want anyone to feel bad or ugly, as a society we’ve started to back off on judging people for being fat, but then the fatties started taking over the narrative in order to support their addictions, and, as a society, we have let them out of fear of offense (not us on the farms, obviously).
Linda Bacon’s whole reason for transing herself was because her name means “pretty” and she’s obviously ugly, so I’m fairly well convinced that transition (for women) and Fat activism are mostly about feeling ugly and not being willing to become more attractive (or specifically avoiding attractiveness, but this is a whole tangent we could go down). Weight loss is not the only way to be more attractive, proper etiquette and posture will do wonders on their own. But we’ve stopped telling people that it’s important to want to be more attractive, and FAs (and TRAs but that’s another thread) have let themselves slip not just in their looks, but in their behaviors as well. “If you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best,” type of thinking has taken over.
JaeBae, being a ringleader of this shit and an archetype for the mindset, is going to be one of the worst examples of this kind of thinking, and she is showing the world where this kind of thinking gets a person—the fucking loony bin, until you’re deemed competent to stay in regular fucking jail. If someone had bailed her out immediately, her public defender would probably still want the chance to say Jaelynn was in some kind of mental crisis that excused the behavior that got her arrested, but she would be out and about, and visiting a therapist in an office park somewhere, not locked in a single-occupancy room in the deepest darkest corner of the mental hospital, getting shot up with enough tranquilizers to take down a hippo.
TLDR we are seeing crackhead behavior from JaeBae because her drug of choice is just as strong, if not stronger than crack cocaine, but without the societal stigma of crack to warn her that her behavior isn’t acceptable within society.
