Keira, the half-elk centaur archer! she is bold, courageous, and just, but lacks social awareness and will frequently insult people without meaning to. even after transitioning, she decided to keep her antlers since she thinks they look cool.
And notice the tone the scientists researching this.
“What do you mean the fatties live longer? This CANNOT BE RIGHT DO THE STUDIES 15 MORE TIMES!”
And when they can’t figure it out, they simply say “it’s not worth reading” to keep anything POSITIVE about fat bodies from getting out into the public eye.
Because then folks might not but into the billion dollar industry for diet fads and weight loss scams that all of these obesity doctors line their pockets with.
Because then theyd actually have to start treating their fat patients like PEOPLE.
“Willett’s complaints are starting to look less credible, however, because no one has been able to make the paradox go away. One of the most popular explanations is that fat people get more aggressive treatment than thin people, because their weight raises red flags at the doctor’s office. This seems questionable: studies show that overweight and obese people tend to avoid doctors, get fewer preventive screenings, and receive worse treatment because they’re often misdiagnosed as “fat” rather than with a specific medical condition”
Emphasis mine
Also, notice the phrasing.
“No one has been able to make the paradox go away”
They wanna get rid of that shit SO BAD. Because if fat people aren’t as OMG OBESITY CRISIS as folks love to scream, that means their fad diet scams and weight loss surgeries can’t make them millions anymore!
Fuck these obesity doctors. They outchea selling snake oil.
“People are furiously looking for some way to make this not the case,” says Deb Burgard, a clinical psychologist in Los Altos, California who treats eating disorders. “And I think that bears some comment. Theoretically we should be very happy to find out that people aren’t dying the way we thought they were going to, that there’s not going to be this terrible outcome. That people at higher weights are going to be OK.”
“One of the most popular explanations is that fat people get more
aggressive treatment than thin people, because their weight raises red
flags at the doctor’s office.”
*points and laughs*
I’m sorry, I’m just stuck on this part. That’s hilarious. An incomplete list of things where the suggested solution was “You should lose weight”: My badly broken ankle hurting, a severe bacterial sinus infection, panic attacks stemming from Complex PTSD …
Oh, wow this study has a pretty reputable source and a really big sample size. Y’all could actually show this to the haters.
There are so many studies that show that ‘overweight’ people live longer, that fat people receive atrocious healthcare, that the ‘health risks’ of ‘obesity’ are WEIRDLY the exact same as those of yoyo dieting HMM I WONDER WHY THAT COULD BE, that longterm weight loss is impossible for all but 2-5% of people and those people sustain it by developing pervasive disordered food and exercise behaviours that would be correctly interpreted as mental illness is any context except Fatties Trying Appropriately Devoutly To Be Thin.
The evidence is THERE and it has BEEN THERE for decades now. People do not care. They want to smugly judge fat people and/or rake in 10s of billions of dollars a year convincing people to try not to be one of Those Bad Fat People. They do want to hear that being fat is just a body shape, with no moral value for good or ill. They do not want to hear that weight is as heritable as height. People get reeeeeaally super defensive when you ask them not talk about their endless dieting and attempts at weight loss around you, a fat person, whose body they are going to all this effort not to resemble.
Anyway join your local fat pos movement and fuck fatphobia forever.
Maybe the real paradox here lies in our assumptions about what
constitutes normal weight.
Fat people die because doctors simply diagnose them with “you’re fat” and call it a day.
@snarksonomy died of a pulmonary embolism because her doctor told her she felt unwell because she needed to lose weight. If she had been taken seriously she might have gotten the care she needed before it was too late.
this is pretty much what I mean by when hes into it the more draconic traits shows up. Its entirely based on how much hes allowing it even if sometime instinct will slip in, hes still trying to figure out that part
No, kids should not have unsupervised acess to the internet. Yes, I got that and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. Its a paradox.
It’s not a paradox – it’s a different net.
When we were kids, the internet was a sandbox-style open world – full of dangerous things, yes, but also nearly unlimited potential – and we learned to be careful, and we learned fast, and we learned fairly well.
Now, the internet is a series of black box silos built by corporations to maximize engagement at the expense of everything else.
I may have seen Two Girls One Cup by accident and at the tender age of ten, but I never had to deal with companies using gambling-addiction-creating strategies pioneered in literal casinos to try and make me hand over hundreds of real dollars at the same age. I may have been exposed to vicious bigotry in anonymous and pseudanonymous messages boards, but I never had algorithms spoonfeeding me explicitly far right radicalizing content. The blithely unfettered access people of our generation had is just genuinely not the same as what kids with unsupervised access are getting today.
There were also like… actual places for kids on the internet back then. Real ass websites full of engaging content geared towards children that was made by actual people who cared about the product.
The corporate internet has pretty much leveled the majority of it and what hasn’t been leveled has largely been turned into advertising. All that’s left is horrific bot-generated content and advertisements and algorithmic slop. The rest is the Adult Internet.
There’s fewer curios and neutral spaces, fewer forums, fewer places that are topic-specific- it’s all on youtube or social media or tiktok or whatever. It’s all the corporate net, where algorithms and advertisers are enacting agendas on their users literally constantly.
Before, unsupervised internet was dangerous because you could find anything out there. Now it’s dangerous because of what you can’t avoid.
so let me get this straight. hbo aquires sesame street (an educational television show that was publicly broadcasted and free that has impacted millions of children), put it behind a paywall, and has now taken 200+ episodes off of its service which are now effectively “lost”
“Sesame Street” will still be available for free via the public airwaves – but on a delayed basis. Episodes will become available to PBS stations and web sites nine months after they’re on HBO.
Basically the only people who “lost” episodes are the ones who had HBO max. We’ve all been on the 9 month delay since 2015.
Although he doesn’t say it aloud, Steve is very self conscious about how he looks. He’s often seen wearing long sleeved shirts and hides the majority of his body beneath blankets and pillows. He barely feels human anymore and before he realizes it, becomes extremely depressed and withdrawn.
He spends most of his days outside the cabin, either napping or staring idly at the woods around him to pass the time. Nothing changes until a few days later when he wakes up feeling absolutely miserable.
Every part of his body itches, his vision is cloudy, and he felt extremely agitated. After scratching his shoulder, he finds a clump of dead skin coating his fingers and realizes he’s shedding.
He tries to hide his predicament with baggy clothes and sunglasses but Robin is quickly able to see through his dumb disguise and notices how miserable he looks. She knows he’s in more pain then he’s letting on, so she stubbornly corners him until he tells her what’s wrong.
Steve knows he’s being ridiculous, but he can’t help but hesitate for a moment before he takes off his shirt and glasses, showing off the clouded scales on his body. He’s surprised when Robin doesn’t gag or recoil, but instead reaches out and gently grabs his arm to examine his dry skin.
After telling him he’s an idiot for not asking for her help sooner, Robin gets up and goes to the kitchen. She comes back with a bowl of water and a large, fluffy towel and tells him to lay down. Steve complies and Robin dips the towel in water before rubbing it softly on his back, peeling the dead skin off without hurting him
She ends up staying at the cabin with him for the rest of the week, helping him get through his shed. They watch bad movies and play board games, laughing and talking the entire time, and for a moment, Steve feels normal again.
