Fat Acceptance Movement / Fat Girlcows

[Smug Cat]

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Ah yes, being kind to your body. By not controlling your calories, exercising and taking care of your mental health, but by eating yourself to obesity and shitty skin. So much Self-love.

The whole fat acceptance movement is based on tone policing, telling people that posting before and after pictures is harmful and talking about fitness/weightloss is fat phobic and bad. But yeah, we're the ones who need to mind our business and educate ourselves.

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I'm a little impressed by how quickly and thoroughly she has mastered the SJW signature incredibly-smug-to-overcompensate-for-extreme-self-loathing smirk. This bitch is like a false-smugness singularity. All lesser hambeasts should bow down before this walking tumblr reaction gif.

Countdown to trooning out? That's definitely the facial expression of a perpetually-cooming troon.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I changed my mind. I don't feel sad anymore for this woman. Go ahead buddy and treat yo self, I'm sure you've earned it by doing fuck all. But please for the love of god don't have children. Ever.

Spoiler: Insta Insanity

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Must be nice to be her neighbor. I hope she has super active traithlon-loving neighbors who have a lot of sex.

Edit. Fucking why not
Name: Rebekah Osprey-Ellis
Lives: Glasgow (if you're willing to pay you can get full address but fuck that)

Facebook
LinkedIn
Boyfriend: Lewis Osborne
Boyfriends Facebook

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Boyfriends LinkedIn

This girl has clearly never experienced the joy of chowing down on a bacon burger after running a half-marathon. Best burger you'll ever have is one you earned.
I don't think any of these FA chicks realize that some people's reasoning for not eating treats all the time is that it's waaay more enjoyable to make it a rare indulgence. (I mean, the main reason is to not get fucking diabeetus but still) Eating shit-tier donuts every week isn't as much of an enjoyable experience as splurging on the good shit every few months or so.
Eating ice cream because you climbed a mountain sounds rad, eating it because you're fat and a bitch sounds like a depressing experience. The FA's throw around the argument that thin people are depriving themselves of delicious treats and how liberating it is to rid yourself of "healthy food" concepts, and that they're enjoying food soooo much more than thin people. Honestly I wouldn't even say that they enjoy food as much as they're obsessed with eating.

Tl;dr Gurl needs to earn something instead of demanding it for once

 

[NoReturn]

Well I did it. I finished the whole thing.

Fat-topia notes:

Spoiler: length

• Opens with a 1-minute fake documentary from an alternate reality where we as a species defeated obesity forever. Credits roll and include things like "Head of catering: Hugh Mungus"
• Opening roll of clips of fatties being fat, talking about how great it is to be fat, and complaining about fatphobia
• History lesson of the "fat acceptance movement" going back to the 1970s. Clips of women being insulted with such cruel insults as "lazy", "stupid", "slob", and "jolly".
• Tess Holiday introduced with clips and we jump immiedately into the Piers Morgan shenanigans. We get a screen saying they reached out to Holiday to participate in the documentary. She said no, so they found another plus-size model (Joycelyn) in the UK.
• Joycelyn immediately calls out Holiday for being "fat" and says "If you're a plus you should be in proportion." and "Not round" (lol)
• Dude puts out a call for stories on Instagram, gets told "The other side of fat acceptance is hatred. You should be listening to fat people ONLY."
• Quick sound bite from the CEO of Bold magazine saying it "makes sense" because "they" are sick of "people like us" (referring to people like himself and the filmmaker: white, fit men)
• It comes out that one of the reasons no one in the fat acceptance community wants to talk to him or be involved in this project is because he was public about how he is going to interview someone who is anti-fat acceptance on YouTube (DerMeister Entertainment)
• He finally finds someone (with an obvious British accent) willing to speak on camera under condition of anonymity who says they don't want him to "profit off [her]" or have her "brand" associated with him and the project. Speaker admits she told "everyone" not to talk to him (but it's ok if she does it). She says "We don't need people like you telling our stories".
• "So, you presume they could tell someone is healthy just by looking at them?" "I mean, if someone is morbidly obese wouldn't that be sort of an indicator?" Interviewee pulls the ol' "Educate yourself" and says they just "want to exist".
• Interviewer ends the interaction with "Privilege, privilege, privilege. That's it I'm done. I will actively tell people not to watch this film."
• Next topic: Thin privilege.
• We get a series of interview clips. Among them, a choice quote from fat activist Evelyn Fields about how thin people can go bungee jumping and not worry about the cable supporting their weight.
• Phone call with FasionablyFelicia about being fat since she was a kid and how that affected her childhood. She seems to have a legitimately positive attitude. When asked about how she personally defines "fat acceptance" she says it's about "accepting yourself as you are now" but then starts talking about how she doesn't want the word "fat" to be seen as a negative.
• New section: Fat can kill you
• Series of slides with statistics about the dangers of being overweight to the overture of La Belle Helene. (I can see a bit why fatties think they're being mocked since the song in question is usually audio shorthand for shenanigans)
• Back to Felicia, she says she's "100% healthy" citing her blood pressure and cholesterol. He overlays other clips as she speaks for an intended humorous effect.
• - New section: Why do fat activists promote "healthy obesity"?
• - Thesis: If fatties can prove being fat is no different than "being brunette" then that protects their position. So the only thing to do would be to fight science with feelings.
• Mini-segment on Cancer Research UK's "Obesity is the second leading cause of cancer" campaign
• Lead into: The fatphobia test. The screener used fits all the "What fatties think other people think about them" stereotypes already covered throughout this thread.
• Back to Evelyn, who repeats the same party line: That people who are against obesity are "disgusted by us or laugh at us". She doesn't even consider the possibility that others might be genuinely concerned or disapprove for other reasons.
• Talks about getting comfortable and accustomed to seeing morbidly obese people and would only "snap out of it" when he encountered the HAES argument
• Talks to some UK celebrity dude I don't recognize who was on a show called "fat families" that I also don't know anything about, about how fat kills and how he (presenter Steve) thinks fat acceptance normalizes obesity.
• "I came to realize that what I truly liked about fat acceptance wasn't something native to that movement. What I liked was a world in which representation was accepted."
• Next segment: Lorna, the fat-positive pageant participant
• Lorna acknowledges that if she wants to have kids she needs to get to a healthy BMI (Actually uses that phrase, too. "Healthy BMI") but then immediately goes into how there are active fat people and how she has other people she knows who teach Zumba and what about all the local drug addicts and alcoholics?
• Dude brings up the strain this places on the NHS. She says she has issues with the NHS, brings up how long the wait (weight) times are and how the elderly are a strain on it. Says she has private healthcare.
• Next segment: Maybe fat activists have confused acceptance of mind with acceptance of body. Can we accept mind and not accept that obesity is ok?
• Talks to Dr. Mariam Stoppard about how normalizing obesity makes people think obesity is ok. Mariam pulls no punches, talks about all the diseases that fat causes directly. She's against shaming though because it's "unkind".
• Transitioning into: Fat shaming. Clips of comedians and online personalities making disparaging comments about fatties. We go back to DerMeister and finally get that interview he was talking about in the beginning.
• DerMeister says he himself is an overweight "African-German" and supports "talking to both sides" despite how he's been labeled a nazi. They bring up the nazi thing a lot.
• Some he said she said about fat activists glorifying obesity or not.
• Tries reaching out to the fatties again for people to interview, this time with a "sorry for my original wording" message. 3/5 block him, 2 respond
• Response #1: Image above
• Response #2: He is quoted $500 as a "consultation fee" for speaking with her for 5 minutes for "emotional labor for fatphobic white man", then blocked.
• He is then sent screenshots by others who said they fear backlash from the community after Responder #1 makes a public post about him.
• "Those with privilege over the oppressed should not feel empowered to tell stories that are not theirs to tell."
• Film ends going back to "obesity is an epidemic". The End.

TL;DW: It's a nothingburger. The most "controversial" thing in it is an interview with a guy who doesn't say anything inflammatory or even show his face. There isn't even enough fatty-sperging to be entertaining.

 

[FuckDuckSeagull]

Well I did it. I finished the whole thing.
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Fat-topia notes:

Spoiler: length

• Opens with a 1-minute fake documentary from an alternate reality where we as a species defeated obesity forever. Credits roll and include things like "Head of catering: Hugh Mungus"
• Opening roll of clips of fatties being fat, talking about how great it is to be fat, and complaining about fatphobia
• History lesson of the "fat acceptance movement" going back to the 1970s. Clips of women being insulted with such cruel insults as "lazy", "stupid", "slob", and "jolly".
• Tess Holiday introduced with clips and we jump immiedately into the Piers Morgan shenanigans. We get a screen saying they reached out to Holiday to participate in the documentary. She said no, so they found another plus-size model (Joycelyn) in the UK.
• Joycelyn immediately calls out Holiday for being "fat" and says "If you're a plus you should be in proportion." and "Not round" (lol)
• Dude puts out a call for stories on Instagram, gets told "The other side of fat acceptance is hatred. You should be listening to fat people ONLY."
• Quick sound bite from the CEO of Bold magazine saying it "makes sense" because "they" are sick of "people like us" (referring to people like himself and the filmmaker: white, fit men)
• It comes out that one of the reasons no one in the fat acceptance community wants to talk to him or be involved in this project is because he was public about how he is going to interview someone who is anti-fat acceptance on YouTube (DerMeister Entertainment)
• He finally finds someone (with an obvious British accent) willing to speak on camera under condition of anonymity who says they don't want him to "profit off [her]" or have her "brand" associated with him and the project. Speaker admits she told "everyone" not to talk to him (but it's ok if she does it). She says "We don't need people like you telling our stories".
• "So, you presume they could tell someone is healthy just by looking at them?" "I mean, if someone is morbidly obese wouldn't that be sort of an indicator?" Interviewee pulls the ol' "Educate yourself" and says they just "want to exist".
• Interviewer ends the interaction with "Privilege, privilege, privilege. That's it I'm done. I will actively tell people not to watch this film."
• Next topic: Thin privilege.
• We get a series of interview clips. Among them, a choice quote from fat activist Evelyn Fields about how thin people can go bungee jumping and not worry about the cable supporting their weight.
• Phone call with FasionablyFelicia about being fat since she was a kid and how that affected her childhood. She seems to have a legitimately positive attitude. When asked about how she personally defines "fat acceptance" she says it's about "accepting yourself as you are now" but then starts talking about how she doesn't want the word "fat" to be seen as a negative.
• New section: Fat can kill you
• Series of slides with statistics about the dangers of being overweight to the overture of La Belle Helene. (I can see a bit why fatties think they're being mocked since the song in question is usually audio shorthand for shenanigans)
• Back to Felicia, she says she's "100% healthy" citing her blood pressure and cholesterol. He overlays other clips as she speaks for an intended humorous effect.
• - New section: Why do fat activists promote "healthy obesity"?
• - Thesis: If fatties can prove being fat is no different than "being brunette" then that protects their position. So the only thing to do would be to fight science with feelings.
• Mini-segment on Cancer Research UK's "Obesity is the second leading cause of cancer" campaign
• Lead into: The fatphobia test. The screener used fits all the "What fatties think other people think about them" stereotypes already covered throughout this thread.
• Back to Evelyn, who repeats the same party line: That people who are against obesity are "disgusted by us or laugh at us". She doesn't even consider the possibility that others might be genuinely concerned or disapprove for other reasons.
• Talks about getting comfortable and accustomed to seeing morbidly obese people and would only "snap out of it" when he encountered the HAES argument
• Talks to some UK celebrity dude I don't recognize who was on a show called "fat families" that I also don't know anything about, about how fat kills and how he (presenter Steve) thinks fat acceptance normalizes obesity.
• "I came to realize that what I truly liked about fat acceptance wasn't something native to that movement. What I liked was a world in which representation was accepted."
• Next segment: Lorna, the fat-positive pageant participant
• Lorna acknowledges that if she wants to have kids she needs to get to a healthy BMI (Actually uses that phrase, too. "Healthy BMI") but then immediately goes into how there are active fat people and how she has other people she knows who teach Zumba and what about all the local drug addicts and alcoholics?
• Dude brings up the strain this places on the NHS. She says she has issues with the NHS, brings up how long the wait (weight) times are and how the elderly are a strain on it. Says she has private healthcare.
• Next segment: Maybe fat activists have confused acceptance of mind with acceptance of body. Can we accept mind and not accept that obesity is ok?
• Talks to Dr. Mariam Stoppard about how normalizing obesity makes people think obesity is ok. Mariam pulls no punches, talks about all the diseases that fat causes directly. She's against shaming though because it's "unkind".
• Transitioning into: Fat shaming. Clips of comedians and online personalities making disparaging comments about fatties. We go back to DerMeister and finally get that interview he was talking about in the beginning.
• DerMeister says he himself is an overweight "African-German" and supports "talking to both sides" despite how he's been labeled a nazi. They bring up the nazi thing a lot.
• Some he said she said about fat activists glorifying obesity or not.
• Tries reaching out to the fatties again for people to interview, this time with a "sorry for my original wording" message. 3/5 block him, 2 respond
• Response #1: Image above
• Response #2: He is quoted $500 as a "consultation fee" for speaking with her for 5 minutes for "emotional labor for fatphobic white man", then blocked.
• He is then sent screenshots by others who said they fear backlash from the community after Responder #1 makes a public post about him.
• "Those with privilege over the oppressed should not feel empowered to tell stories that are not theirs to tell."
• Film ends going back to "obesity is an epidemic". The End.

TL;DW: It's a nothingburger. The most "controversial" thing in it is an interview with a guy who doesn't say anything inflammatory or even show his face. There isn't even enough fatty-sperging to be entertaining.

Want to jump in and watch the Dark side of Fat acceptance too? It just released. Same guy did it.

 

[NoReturn]

Want to jump in and watch the Dark side of Fat acceptance too? It just released. Same guy did it.

Fattopia 2: The Fempire Strikes Back

 

[Otterly]

so.
Eating ice cream because you climbed a mountain sounds rad, eating it because you're fat and a bitch sounds like a depressing experience.

One of the very many enjoyable things about going out into the wilds to hike for a day or two is carrying a load of bacon and sausages and making an epic, artery clogging fry up and scoffing it with zero guilt, then putting the leftovers between some bread to be eaten at the top of a mountain looking down over the highlands, with a flask of tea. Bliss. Bekah lives in Glasgow, and has the highlands, beaches and Isles as her playground. There’s an easy ramble within every bus ride out of the city. From stuff suitable for wheelchairs and kids on trikes to serious hardcore multiday routes.
Treats are fine, an occasional blowout is fine.heck, a fry up in lard is fine, as long as it’s not every day and you’re burning it off. The idea that the natural instinct to moderate depending on activity is somehow wrong is really insidious and damaging. We SHOULD be tailoring intake to output. Isn’t that what the intuitive eating they all bang on about is?

 

[Smiling Honeybadger]

Well I did it. I finished the whole thing.
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Fat-topia notes:

Spoiler: length

• Opens with a 1-minute fake documentary from an alternate reality where we as a species defeated obesity forever. Credits roll and include things like "Head of catering: Hugh Mungus"
• Opening roll of clips of fatties being fat, talking about how great it is to be fat, and complaining about fatphobia
• History lesson of the "fat acceptance movement" going back to the 1970s. Clips of women being insulted with such cruel insults as "lazy", "stupid", "slob", and "jolly".
• Tess Holiday introduced with clips and we jump immiedately into the Piers Morgan shenanigans. We get a screen saying they reached out to Holiday to participate in the documentary. She said no, so they found another plus-size model (Joycelyn) in the UK.
• Joycelyn immediately calls out Holiday for being "fat" and says "If you're a plus you should be in proportion." and "Not round" (lol)
• Dude puts out a call for stories on Instagram, gets told "The other side of fat acceptance is hatred. You should be listening to fat people ONLY."
• Quick sound bite from the CEO of Bold magazine saying it "makes sense" because "they" are sick of "people like us" (referring to people like himself and the filmmaker: white, fit men)
• It comes out that one of the reasons no one in the fat acceptance community wants to talk to him or be involved in this project is because he was public about how he is going to interview someone who is anti-fat acceptance on YouTube (DerMeister Entertainment)
• He finally finds someone (with an obvious British accent) willing to speak on camera under condition of anonymity who says they don't want him to "profit off [her]" or have her "brand" associated with him and the project. Speaker admits she told "everyone" not to talk to him (but it's ok if she does it). She says "We don't need people like you telling our stories".
• "So, you presume they could tell someone is healthy just by looking at them?" "I mean, if someone is morbidly obese wouldn't that be sort of an indicator?" Interviewee pulls the ol' "Educate yourself" and says they just "want to exist".
• Interviewer ends the interaction with "Privilege, privilege, privilege. That's it I'm done. I will actively tell people not to watch this film."
• Next topic: Thin privilege.
• We get a series of interview clips. Among them, a choice quote from fat activist Evelyn Fields about how thin people can go bungee jumping and not worry about the cable supporting their weight.
• Phone call with FasionablyFelicia about being fat since she was a kid and how that affected her childhood. She seems to have a legitimately positive attitude. When asked about how she personally defines "fat acceptance" she says it's about "accepting yourself as you are now" but then starts talking about how she doesn't want the word "fat" to be seen as a negative.
• New section: Fat can kill you
• Series of slides with statistics about the dangers of being overweight to the overture of La Belle Helene. (I can see a bit why fatties think they're being mocked since the song in question is usually audio shorthand for shenanigans)
• Back to Felicia, she says she's "100% healthy" citing her blood pressure and cholesterol. He overlays other clips as she speaks for an intended humorous effect.
• - New section: Why do fat activists promote "healthy obesity"?
• - Thesis: If fatties can prove being fat is no different than "being brunette" then that protects their position. So the only thing to do would be to fight science with feelings.
• Mini-segment on Cancer Research UK's "Obesity is the second leading cause of cancer" campaign
• Lead into: The fatphobia test. The screener used fits all the "What fatties think other people think about them" stereotypes already covered throughout this thread.
• Back to Evelyn, who repeats the same party line: That people who are against obesity are "disgusted by us or laugh at us". She doesn't even consider the possibility that others might be genuinely concerned or disapprove for other reasons.
• Talks about getting comfortable and accustomed to seeing morbidly obese people and would only "snap out of it" when he encountered the HAES argument
• Talks to some UK celebrity dude I don't recognize who was on a show called "fat families" that I also don't know anything about, about how fat kills and how he (presenter Steve) thinks fat acceptance normalizes obesity.
• "I came to realize that what I truly liked about fat acceptance wasn't something native to that movement. What I liked was a world in which representation was accepted."
• Next segment: Lorna, the fat-positive pageant participant
• Lorna acknowledges that if she wants to have kids she needs to get to a healthy BMI (Actually uses that phrase, too. "Healthy BMI") but then immediately goes into how there are active fat people and how she has other people she knows who teach Zumba and what about all the local drug addicts and alcoholics?
• Dude brings up the strain this places on the NHS. She says she has issues with the NHS, brings up how long the wait (weight) times are and how the elderly are a strain on it. Says she has private healthcare.
• Next segment: Maybe fat activists have confused acceptance of mind with acceptance of body. Can we accept mind and not accept that obesity is ok?
• Talks to Dr. Mariam Stoppard about how normalizing obesity makes people think obesity is ok. Mariam pulls no punches, talks about all the diseases that fat causes directly. She's against shaming though because it's "unkind".
• Transitioning into: Fat shaming. Clips of comedians and online personalities making disparaging comments about fatties. We go back to DerMeister and finally get that interview he was talking about in the beginning.
• DerMeister says he himself is an overweight "African-German" and supports "talking to both sides" despite how he's been labeled a nazi. They bring up the nazi thing a lot.
• Some he said she said about fat activists glorifying obesity or not.
• Tries reaching out to the fatties again for people to interview, this time with a "sorry for my original wording" message. 3/5 block him, 2 respond
• Response #1: Image above
• Response #2: He is quoted $500 as a "consultation fee" for speaking with her for 5 minutes for "emotional labor for fatphobic white man", then blocked.
• He is then sent screenshots by others who said they fear backlash from the community after Responder #1 makes a public post about him.
• "Those with privilege over the oppressed should not feel empowered to tell stories that are not theirs to tell."
• Film ends going back to "obesity is an epidemic". The End.

TL;DW: It's a nothingburger. The most "controversial" thing in it is an interview with a guy who doesn't say anything inflammatory or even show his face. There isn't even enough fatty-sperging to be entertaining.

My favourite part is the bitching about not being able to Bungee jump as a fat person. Physics are so fatphobic. And for some weird reason I now have Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" as an earworm...

 

[Reepicheep]

 

[FuckDuckSeagull]

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Ahahhahhaaaa ..... no. I hate it. I hate all of this.

 

[SassyAndMorbidlyObese]

One of the very many enjoyable things about going out into the wilds to hike for a day or two is carrying a load of bacon and sausages and making an epic, artery clogging fry up and scoffing it with zero guilt, then putting the leftovers between some bread to be eaten at the top of a mountain looking down over the highlands, with a flask of tea. Bliss. Bekah lives in Glasgow, and has the highlands, beaches and Isles as her playground. There’s an easy ramble within every bus ride out of the city. From stuff suitable for wheelchairs and kids on trikes to serious hardcore multiday routes.
Treats are fine, an occasional blowout is fine.heck, a fry up in lard is fine, as long as it’s not every day and you’re burning it off. The idea that the natural instinct to moderate depending on activity is somehow wrong is really insidious and damaging. We SHOULD be tailoring intake to output. Isn’t that what the intuitive eating they all bang on about is?

That's my childhood Swallows and Amazon's dreams come true. Such a wasted opportunity.

 

[Jhonson Jhonson]

One of the very many enjoyable things about going out into the wilds to hike for a day or two is carrying a load of bacon and sausages and making an epic, artery clogging fry up and scoffing it with zero guilt, then putting the leftovers between some bread to be eaten at the top of a mountain looking down over the highlands, with a flask of tea. Bliss. Bekah lives in Glasgow, and has the highlands, beaches and Isles as her playground. There’s an easy ramble within every bus ride out of the city. From stuff suitable for wheelchairs and kids on trikes to serious hardcore multiday routes.
Treats are fine, an occasional blowout is fine.heck, a fry up in lard is fine, as long as it’s not every day and you’re burning it off. The idea that the natural instinct to moderate depending on activity is somehow wrong is really insidious and damaging. We SHOULD be tailoring intake to output. Isn’t that what the intuitive eating they all bang on about is?

A good variant is doing the same but with friends who each bring a piece of the meal we will share at the top

One thing i noticed is the majority of those FA people are eating alone. They do not share the food they binge all days. It's so sad

 

[FuckDuckSeagull]

Buckle up kids, the signs are there for Rebekah!

I give her 2 years or 100 elbees till she starts saying shit like "I've never felt completely like a woman, but now I wear mens pants and realized I'm actually HANDSOME and totally trans!" Especially if the boyfriend decides to jump ship, then she will for sure troon out non-medically of course.

Maybe she can start dating Sofie?

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Buckle up kids, the signs are there for Rebekah!

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I give her 2 years or 100 elbees till she starts saying shit like "I've never felt completely like a woman, but now I wear mens pants and realized I'm actually HANDSOME and totally trans!" Especially if the boyfriend decides to jump ship, then she will for sure troon out non-medically of course.

Maybe she can start dating Sofie?

Lol, niqabi waving a Pride flag? Erm... I'm pretty sure that the Prophet had some rather pungent things to say about LGBTQQIAP2+ASDRFVBHIJLUASEDRFUBYHUJICDFKLRSVZ:

We also (sent) Lut: He said to his people: "Do ye commit lewdness such as no people in creation (ever) committed before you? For ye practise your lusts on men in preference to women : ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds." And his people gave no answer but this: they said, "Drive them out of your city: these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!"

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: The Prophet cursed effeminate men; those men who are in the similitude (assume the manners of women) and those women who assume the manners of men, and he said, "Turn them out of your houses." The Prophet turned out such-and-such man, and 'Umar turned out such-and-such woman.

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: That the Messenger of Allah said: "Whomever you find doing the actions of the people of Lut then kill the one doing it, and the one it is done to."

It was narrated by Jaabir (may Allah be pleased with him): "The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: 'There is nothing I fear for my ummah more than the deed of the people of Loot.'"

It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet said concerning those who do the action of the people of Lut: “Stone the upper and the lower, stone them both.”

But that's all out of context (despite being from the Qur'an and Sunnah) because Islam is a feminist religion, right?

 

[NoReturn]

Bekah lives in Glasgow, and has the highlands, beaches and Isles as her playground.

This gives me the strangest feeling of envy-pity.

 

[LetThemEatCake]

Glasgow may be surrounded by countryside and hills, but it's one of the fattestt places in the whole of the UK, and Scotland overall has the worst level of obesity out of the four regions:

• In 2017, 65% of adults aged 16 and over were overweight, including 29% who were obese. Levels of overweight and obesity for adults aged 16-64 increased between 1995 and 2008, but have remained broadly stable since then.
• Since 1998, the proportion of children aged 2-15 at risk of overweight (including obesity) has fluctuated between 26% and 33%. In 2017, 26% of children were at risk of overweight, including 13% at risk of obesity.
• At the end of 2016, there were 291,981 people diagnosed with diabetes in Scotland recorded on local diabetes registers. Of all cases, 88.3% (257,72 were Type 2 diabetes. Prevalence of Type 2 diabetes continues to increase steadily.
• In 2017, 65% of adults aged 16 and over met the current moderate/vigorous physical activity (MVPA) guideline. There has been no significant change to this proportion since 2012.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/obesity-indicators/

https://www.understandingglasgow.com/indicators/lifestyle/obesity/obesity_across_scotland

Also note Scotland has only 5.5 million people. 250k+ of them having Type 2 is a about 5% of the population which may be nothing mex to say, Mexico's current 14%, but still puts a huge burden on tthe health system.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Glasgow may be surrounded by countryside and hills, but it's one of the fattestt places in the whole of the UK, and Scotland overall has the worst level of obesity out of the four regions:

• In 2017, 65% of adults aged 16 and over were overweight, including 29% who were obese. Levels of overweight and obesity for adults aged 16-64 increased between 1995 and 2008, but have remained broadly stable since then.
• Since 1998, the proportion of children aged 2-15 at risk of overweight (including obesity) has fluctuated between 26% and 33%. In 2017, 26% of children were at risk of overweight, including 13% at risk of obesity.
• At the end of 2016, there were 291,981 people diagnosed with diabetes in Scotland recorded on local diabetes registers. Of all cases, 88.3% (257,72 were Type 2 diabetes. Prevalence of Type 2 diabetes continues to increase steadily.
• In 2017, 65% of adults aged 16 and over met the current moderate/vigorous physical activity (MVPA) guideline. There has been no significant change to this proportion since 2012.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/obesity-indicators/

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https://www.understandingglasgow.com/indicators/lifestyle/obesity/obesity_across_scotland

Also note Scotland has only 5.5 million people. 250k+ of them having Type 2 is a about 5% of the population which may be nothing mex to say, Mexico's current 14%, but still puts a huge burden on tthe health system.

That'll be the deep fried Mars bars, Bucky, and battered pizzas.

With that and haggis (which is quite nice) it seems to me that there's this ancient Gaelic tradition of basing your food on a dare.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

That'll be the deep fried Mars bars, Bucky, and battered pizzas.

With that and haggis (which is quite nice) it seems to me that there's this ancient Gaelic tradition of basing your food on a dare.

The deep-fried pizzas are something else.

Hell we don't even have that in the US.

 

[AbraCadaver]

"Whether you've climbed a huge ass mountain today or not even stepped outside your house, you deserve to fuel your body with food."

There's fueling your body with food, giving it what it needs--and then there's continuing to shove excessive, unnecessary "fuel" into it until it becomes an inflamed mess, hauling around an unnecessary and damaging surplus of "fuel" in the form of fat that never gets burned off.

That cookie isn't "fuel"; it's a fucking drug. She didn't consume it to meet her body's energy needs; she ate it to get a dopamine hit and briefly lift her sad, shitty mood. And when that hit wears off, and she starts feeling anxious, depressed, or vaguely dissatisfied again, she'll have to eat something else to get another boost.

There's a dominant idea right now that just because you want some sort of indulgence, you "deserve" it. Showing yourself love and care through unnecessary consumption of non-essential goods and services is seen as one's perfect right. You deserve the cookie. You deserve new clothes. You deserve the vacation. You deserve to receive a service in which other people make you the center of attention (in exchange for not very much money). And the only criteria for "deserving" is "because I want it, and it will make me feel good now."

But when they're left sick and hurting, struggling to get through each day while hauling around a burden of excess fat--or chronically anxious about money and terrified of losing their job, with no savings and a load of credit card debt--suddenly it's not fair, they don't deserve this, and it's the system's fault for failing them.

Bekah believes she deserves all of the excess food she consumes, and the fleeting pleasure it gives her. And she probably tells herself she doesn't deserve to be depressed, in chronic pain, with terrible skin and disfiguring stretch marks at age 23. She deserves all the quick rewards, but none of the long-term consequences. Ah, but they aren't really consequences if you can shift the blame to someone else, or the oppressive "system."

Okay, enough of that.

But good lord, I am struck once again by how terrible she looks. And it's not helped by the awful orange hair or the yellow sweater or the salmon lipstick, colors that are the exact opposite of flattering on her. Her natural hair color is a cool-toned brunette, and she does not have the skin tone to wear warm, yellow-based colors like that. Ugh--she used to be cute, and now she's doing everything possible to make herself look like hot garbage.

I deserve to sleep in an hour every day and show up late for work because all humans need sleep to survive and sleep deprivation can literally kill you! Sleep is the most beneficial thing you can do to love and nourish your body!

Also

I don’t deserve to be fired from work for showing up late every day! This world is restphobic and disordered and addicted to anti-sleep propaganda like drinking coffee and using alarm clocks and makes sleeping a moral issue! I trust my body to determine when it has enough sleep instead of engaging in disordered sleep patterns and some rare people have legitimate sleep disorders and even though I don’t have a diagnosis for any of those I shouldn’t have been fired because it’s not my fault!

 

[NoReturn]

Glasgow may be surrounded by countryside and hills, but it's one of the fattestt places in the whole of the UK, and Scotland overall has the worst level of obesity out of the four regions:

• In 2017, 65% of adults aged 16 and over were overweight, including 29% who were obese. Levels of overweight and obesity for adults aged 16-64 increased between 1995 and 2008, but have remained broadly stable since then.
• Since 1998, the proportion of children aged 2-15 at risk of overweight (including obesity) has fluctuated between 26% and 33%. In 2017, 26% of children were at risk of overweight, including 13% at risk of obesity.
• At the end of 2016, there were 291,981 people diagnosed with diabetes in Scotland recorded on local diabetes registers. Of all cases, 88.3% (257,72 were Type 2 diabetes. Prevalence of Type 2 diabetes continues to increase steadily.
• In 2017, 65% of adults aged 16 and over met the current moderate/vigorous physical activity (MVPA) guideline. There has been no significant change to this proportion since 2012.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/obesity-indicators/

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https://www.understandingglasgow.com/indicators/lifestyle/obesity/obesity_across_scotland

Also note Scotland has only 5.5 million people. 250k+ of them having Type 2 is a about 5% of the population which may be nothing mex to say, Mexico's current 14%, but still puts a huge burden on tthe health system.

Scotland why? How fast did they get fat?

 

[LetThemEatCake]

Scotland why? How fast did they get fat?

Consumption of calorie-dense junk foods, high sugar consumpion, high alcohol consumption, lack of exercise, smoking at high rates. Some of which is correlated with urban deprivation and some not at all.