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Squid • 30s • they/it • queer • bad memory club

An 8,000-year-old marble figurine of a voluptuous woman was unearthed in 2016 in the Neolithic urban settlement of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey. The figurine is 17 centimeters long, 11 centimeters wide and weighs one kilo.

Yes! People act like fatness is an invention of the 20th century and “our hunter-gatherer ancestors wouldn’t have been obese!” Bullshit. Fat people have always existed, and our ancestors thought they were beautiful! <333

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cadmium64

This being common is an invention of 20th century, though. And we have since learned it’s a recipe for early death.

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vaspider

No, it’s not a recipe for early death, please stop mindlessly rabbiting back what the multi-billion-dollar weightloss industry pumps into the world.

I beg you to listen to like one episode of Maintenance Phase or read a book or two. This modern obsession with thinness is not just wrong, it’s racist as hell.

Firmly in place by the time the diet industry began to flourish in the 1920s, the development of fat stigma was related not only to cultural anxieties that emerged during the modern period related to consumer excess, but, even more profoundly, to prevailing ideas about race, civilization and evolution. For 19th and early 20th century thinkers, fatness was a key marker of inferiority, of an uncivilized, barbaric, and primitive body. This idea—that fatness is a sign of a primitive person—endures today, fueling both our $60 billion “war on fat” and our cultural distress over the “obesity epidemic.”

Whatever you do, stop putting this fatphobic and factually wrong bullshit on shit you reblog from me. Medical fatphobia almost lost me the use of everything below my L1 vertebra because a doctor was so BLINDED by my BIG FAT ASS that he didn’t even bother to do any tests past looking at me and saying YEAH YOU FAT. I lived in fucking agony for years because my doctor didn’t listen. He just put me on 1300 calories a day (which is about what you feed a fucking toddler, not a 35yo adult) and ignored me when I said I wasn’t getting better. I just needed to work harder to lose the weight. Never mind that I was furious with everyone all the time because I was literally starving, and couldn’t exercise because I couldn’t fucking walk from the pain.

When I needed help to walk to the bathroom at work, my wife finally got pissed off enough to demand that I go back to my family doctor, who looked at me for a very literal thirty seconds before sending me to get an MRI of my spine. That very simple test which - again - the other doctor didn’t bother ordering for two years as I slowly lost my ability to do fuck all and missed doing cool shit with my daughter from ages 10-12? Yeah, it revealed a 2.5cm tumor growing on my spinal cord sheath, compressing my spinal cord.

I was really lucky - it was benign. I didn’t die like my friend Ginny, who had a tumor in the same spot and lost the tumor lottery. I’m lucky. Genuinely. I know of far too many fat people who fucking died because their doctors didn’t do the same tests on them that they do on skinny people.

And it’s all fucking lies! It’s all fucking lies. All that suffering and fatphobia is because of racism and money.

And here you are, vomiting up the same fucking garbage.

Don’t respond. You’re wrong, and I’m not arguing with you. Sit down, shut up, and learn before you keep perpetuating the same harmful bullshit that caused me years of agony.

fatness plus fatphobia is a recipe for early death. And it’s the fatphobia that’s critical.

Being fat will not kill you.

Doctors blaming health issues on your being fat and refusing to find the actual problem will kill you.

I suppose, on paper, that if a doctor says “The problem you are having is because you are fat” and then the patient dies, it could look like being fat killed them.

But that misses the critical part where the doctor didn’t look for the actual cause.

Fatphobia kills.

Fatphobic doctors kill.

Gonna also mention that studies have found being overweight in old age as a predictor of better health

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vaspider

Yup! But that would require reading literally any of the things I linked rather than just going off on a fatphobic jaunt lol

Sometimes I see straight women posting and I'm like hmmm okay I can see why some straight men are driven insane without necessarily being like Andrew Tate psychos

Oh there's so many of these

The feminine trait of *checks notes* wanting to stay hydrated

... And you hid it in the tags ?

We have GOT to keep making fun of cis women who act like this. It’s the only way we can move forward

here's your fucking feedback @staff

list of problems the removal of icons causes:

  • i cant see my friends
  • ruins the sense of community
  • can't tell at a glance who's online right now and what they're interested in
  • literally cannot tell without scrolling back up who put a post on my dash if it has a single addition attached to it. or like. 2 paragraphs in the op.
  • i cant click my own icon at the top of the dash to quickly view my own blog
  • can't tell who someone used to be if they change their username
  • squashes the margins between the menu and posts, making the whole dash feel more cramped
  • ruins the quick visual cue of how long each post is and where it ends when you're trying to scroll past ones youve seen before
  • people put a lot of creativity and individuality into icons, and now i never see them
  • makes people who primarily reblog instead of make their own posts all but completely disappear

list of problems solved by removing icons:

  • ?????
  • who the fuck was asking for this
  • ive never in my life seen a website or app that has profile pics forcibly HIDE them, so i guess you did it you made the dash unique again in the worst way

here's some more feedback: maybe when you run an a/b test you should, idk, actually have a feedback form people can fill out about it somewhere

cosigned

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megatraven

It's not exactly what you mean in that it's not specifically for this a/b group thing but...

THERE IS A FEEDBACK FORM YOU CAN FILL OUT!!!

Click Help at the bottom right of the screen (might have to scroll a little bit to get it)

At the top of your screen, tap Contact Support, and it will open a sidebar.

On the Choose a category for support option, choose Feedback.

Fill out the rest of the form with your feedback and be as civil as possible while getting your points across.

If you're on mobile:

Tap the profile button, then enter your settings.

Under General Settings, which should be the first option available to select, scroll down until you see Help.

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Scroll the page to the bottom until you see Contact Support, and tap it.

And like on desktop, you select Feedback from the dropdown menu for Choose a category for support.

I have no idea how effective this is, but considering it's one of the few ways to actually contact staff and support that gets you a response (you'll receive an email reply eventually!), it's worth a shot

Also, props to Allan???

He's a doll most people have never heard of. He got discontinued forever ago cause he was perceived as gay by consumers and they didn't like that.

But I love that he had an actual role in Barbie. He was very queer coded, yeah, but he didn't like when all the Kens turned to Patriarchy. He was so uncomfortable that he wanted to abandon Barbieland all together. He knew it was wrong.

And then he helped the Barbies get themselves back. He had a pink jumpsuit and sunglasses and went out all stealthy to get the Barbies in the van. He even voted at the end to keep the constitution the way it was.

Big Allan fan over here.