Kudos to Maher for saying difficult things that I, for one, need to hear

[TooPatient]

This is so much more complicated than fat jokes and fat shame and eat less exercise more. Fat people don’t need to apologize for existing any more than thin people do. Fat people shouldn’t need to perform being good fatties who never eat cake or have a coke in order to deserve kindness and compassion.

I am a fat person and this post makes me feel unwelcome on pricescope. In the immortal words of Taylor Swift, can you just not?

You said what I have felt in several conversations. I don't think that people mean it the way it feels, but it still hurts and is one reason why I drifted away for awhile. My excitement over reaching a huge weight loss milestone recently was bittersweet as I didn't have anyone I could share it with except DH. Sadly, despite what the video guy said, there is very little "fat acceptance" that I have seen and sure as heck isn't any risk of "fat glorification" in the foreseeable future! Please know that you are welcome and not alone!

 

[missy]

I find it much more worrisome that our culture now is encouraging young women to inflate their butts with injections, get BBLs, breast augmentations, breast lifts, lip injections, facial fillers, lip flips, mini facelifts, hair extensions, on and on and on and on and on… and then we see a pic of a bloated Elon Musk on a beach laughing his head off and no one bats an eye.

Same and agree completely. I am in dismay at what some women are doing to themselves. All of the above.

 

[yssie]

And just to add.....

If you think what women experience in relation to food and body image is the same as what men experience, here's a little experiment you can run.

Go out to dinner with a man - or a child - or another woman for that matter.
At the end of the meal, order dessert.

If you are a woman, I guarantee you - 100% of the time, they will bring you multiple spoons SO YOU CAN SHARE. Even if you ask for a single spoon, or your date says they won't be having dessert, they will STILL bring you multiple spoons. As women, the implication is that we do not own our own means of production - even down to our own food. We are not expected to be in control of what we consume, and we are expected to not want much - and always be willing to give what we have asked for away to anyone else who requests it.

If you are man and you order dessert - it happens occasionally, but generally - no.

Try it out. The results are shocking.

This made me laugh. Yes, they really do always bring out multiple spoons anyway, in the US northeast

 

[yssie]

I watched the video. Here’s my problem with his logic. Yes, the US has an obesity epidemic. Yes, prepackaged foods contribute. Yes, it’s related to food culture and lifestyle. Yes, in other areas of the world you move more as part of your day to day.

But people living in the US are living in the US, with US prepackaged foods and US food culture and US lifestyle and US amounts of natural daily movement. To hold individuals solely responsible for the trappings of literally everything in their environments is both pointless and cruel.

If “people in America in the fifties” were somehow picked up out of their time and dropped into the here and now I’ll bet they’d have an obesity epidemic too.

 

[Slickk]

If “people in America in the fifties” were somehow picked up out of their time and dropped into the here and now I’ll bet they’d have an obesity epidemic too.

I completely concur with this. But I think recognizing the problem (ie the food chart I posted on pg 1) could help us solve this. The fact that healthy food is so much more expensive and risky (let’s face it, how often do we throw away a bad ‘apple’) is problematic.
We (collectively) are the product of our society for sure.

 

[Gloria27]

I just wanted to add this…

Check out the differences in ingredients between the US and the UK!

This is solely because UK used to be in the EU.
My dermatologist told me to never buy any cosmetics or personal care products from the US, ever, as they are laced with chems which have been banned in the EU for years. Guess that says it all...

 

[monarch64]

A songwriter on Tiktok wrote this song a few weeks ago and it’s gone viral. Thought I’d share it here:

Here’s a link to the Tiktok of her flash mob:

TikTok - Make Your Day

Oh, and the old man who lives in Ohio is Les Wexner, former friend of Jeffrey Epstein, in case you haven’t seen the Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons documentary on Hulu.

 

[liaerfbv]

As a fat woman who is healthy, happy, and living my best ****ing life - I'd really like to stop reading about other people's opinions about my body.