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[bitterlawngnome]

So an interesting concatenation in the last 24 hours.

Information correlating the consumption of diet sodas with weight gain and cardiovascular disease. It's interesting to speculate on whether there is causation, and which direction it goes. But of course the finger-wagging ... obviously it can't be the diet soda causing weight gain, it's just those gormless fat people making a meaningless gesture at weight loss.

Another wannabe-musclebear throwing around the usual crap about how fat people don't take care of themselves: @Crowderism: yep. there is just a lot of fat people crying out to use a gay label that justify a life without self care.

And this morning, someone repeating in all earnestness the myth about Mama Cass killing herself with gluttony. The cruel irony that she is remembered as binge-eating herself to death where actually she probably died as a result of trying to be thin.

Sometimes I visualise culture as a bloodstream, and these messages as toxins being excreted into it; and I try in my limited way to introduce antidotes. But some days, it feels hopeless.

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[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

well OK, see I don't think there's inherently anything wrong with wanting to look a certain way, and chemistry could be a part of making that happen; I see it as body mod in the same fashion as piercings or tats. but if someone started saying "untattoed people just don't give a damn about themselves" you'd know it was ridiculous without any further analysis, but somehow being fat is just the worst thing evar.