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Um… I Think South Park Just Criticized Liberal Media and No One Is Talking About It
SPOILER WARNING: Contains spoilers for the South Park Vaccination Special CONTENT WARNING: Politics Curiously, the argument between the anchor and reporter about the “passion” of the kids for stealing the vaccines and distributing them independently… this entire bit is absent from every review I’ve read about the episode. It’s not mentioned in any of the…
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Sugar Too?! Ugh… Anyway, Look: It’s Not That Important To Be Super-Duper Vegan
Just a quick one for everybody. I just found out what a “sugar vegan” is. This is someone who abstains from eating processed and clarified white sugar because it is filtered using a form of carbon derived from charred animal bones. I think it’s important to be wary of all these little ways the meat…
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Yeah We FIGURED Exercise Can’t Completely Stop Fat From Making You Sick. Your Point??
Just a quick rage post, everyone. This week you may have found some punchy, alarming news headlines pop up such as “FAT BUT FIT IS A MYTH”. Scary news. Scary fat news. It’s that kind of thing when “journalists” are desperate for material so they dig into recent academic research to pull out a claim…
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You See, It’s FUNNY Because Buying Frosting Is Supposed To Mean You’re A Failure… JK
I’ve been sitting on this post for a few weeks. I thought it would be worth finishing before the end of the holidays. Enjoy? One of Colbert’s recent Late Show cold opens is a fake ad for Cinnabon’s pint of frosting. In the sketch, people at a loss of what left to do to survive…
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People Miss the Whole Point of Political Correctness
Ah, the joy of r/fatlogic. I already knew what the commenters would write as soon as I saw this. This argument has been applied to other forms of verbal abuse and microaggressions such as sexual harassment, racial discrimination, and misgendering: you don’t get to decide how someone should feel in response to how you treat…
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The Word “Overweight” Really Doesn’t Mean Anything
We’re back again with a hard-to-search query, and lo and behold it’s still about fat stigma. This time I’m trying to investigate the use of the term “overweight”, looking for nuanced analyses of its multiple uses and their consequences. But I have come back empty-handed. And whenever that happens, I BLOG. THIS…. this is that…
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The Morality of Fat – Levels of Misconception
Tiers of the Morality of Fat: 1) Being fat does not always mean you’re unhealthy. 2) Being healthy is not always ethical. People use their physical and mental stamina in order to oppress others, and the pleasure that they can experience can make them apathetic and ignorant to the ills of the world and other…
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You’ll Benefit More From Exercise Than From Being Thin
The University of Cambridge published a longitudinal study in 2015 that found people were twice as likely to die prematurely if they were inactive than if they were obese. A moderate amount of activity amounting to a brisk 20-minute walk daily is sufficient to decrease your risk of death 7.5%. Lowering your BMI below 30…