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hey everyone. me and @applepiewindowsill have decided to make a gofundme to get support moving out of Texas/US. We are disabled and trans and the anti-trans bills being pushed right now have us scared.
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please boost and share as much as you can! It would be really amazing if we could make our goal by the end of the year.
[Image description: There are 7 images that are screen caps of tiktok user @/chris.irish.rd's video
Image 1: Reminders from a slightly angry dietitian
Image 2: Consuming soy is not going to lower your testosterone, but consistently underfueling will
Image 3: Just because the body CAN function with minimal carbohydrates doesn't mean it is "healthy" or preferred
Image 4: Your brain needs carbohydrates to understand Severance
Image 5: If you're hungry an hour after eating, there is a reason. You're allowed to eat again
Image 6: Food is personal and it can serve many purposes. You don't have to justify your eating
Image 7: You aren't supposed to weight the same as you did in high school or college /end ID]
Overweight daddy whoโs constantly eating rich yummy food x puppy whoโs getting chubby off all the extra scraps n leftovers they feed it
An enormous portion of fat people are poor, which means worse healthcare.
Rates of fat people are high in certain racial minorities like black people and Indigenous people. These people face racism, which means racism-induced poverty, lack of opportunities, lower socioeconomic status, worse quality of healthcare, lack of access to healthcare, among a plethora of other things.
Fat people face fatphobia, a form of oppression. This oppression causes fat people to face a wage gap, lower socioeconomic status, medical negligence, just to name a few things. There are studies that show that fat people receive worse healthcare, that doctors don't even do the same amount of tests on us because they don't want to touch our "disgusting" fat bodies. We avoid going to doctors until the very last minute so that we won't be subjected to fatphobia in medical treatment, which means our conditions are worse when we do finally see a doctor. We are always prescribed with weight loss instead of actually being examined. There are plenty of accounts of fat people dying with tumors because when they went to see a doctor about pain, the doctor told them it's their fault for being fat and didn't check for anything else.
When a group faces oppression, common ways to cope are things like smoking and drinking. Does the study take that into account?
On top of that, weight gain is often a symptom of a condition, not the cause of it.
And these are just the tip of the iceberg of things to consider when we hear about higher weights being correlated with certain health conditions. There are so many other factors too.
If we can understand how AIDS was mislabeled a "gay disease" when in reality being gay does not cause someone to have AIDS, then we can understand how fat people's oppression and the willful ignorance about causation vs. correlation has medicalized fatness too, another normal aspect of human diversity just like sexuality.
When someone invents a helmet and people who wear that helmet suddenly have an increase in rates of brain damage, correlation tells us that the helmets cause brain damage. When you actually look at the whole situation, you realize that the increase in brain damage is because the people who would have died in accidents have been saved by the helmets, so the increase is from people's lives being saved by the helmets and facing non-fatal injuries rather than death. But if we stop at "helmet = more brain damage," then we never actually understand the real causation and how the helmets are effective and saving lives.
Societies that begin to allow divorce suddenly see evidence of domestic violence and unhappy relationships, so the allowance of divorce must cause unhappy marriages, right? In reality, that domestic violence and those unhappy marriages have existed the whole time. Divorce has just given people the freedom to finally leave those situations, so now we're actually getting to hear about them.
Do we see how correlation does not equal causation and that believing it does only serves to medicalize oppressed communities and actually worsen health?
The original post here is from the woman who introduced me to size acceptance and started me down this path. I am grateful to her for sharing information, research, and tips for navigating fatphobia, including in the doctor's office.
Reblog or like this if you are a nsfw blog run by a nonbinary and/or queer person who is comfortable with a queer nonbinary person engaging with your posts.
Things I will never ask for (asking for them ruins it) but that you can now do while pretending you never saw my post:
- Text me when you eat too much in a non-kink setting. Text me details. Who side-eyed you, who asked if you really wanted dessert, how much are you regretting it now that I'm not there to take care of you?
- Text me when you have to stop an everyday activity to catch your breath. Stairs getting harder? I want to know. Tying your shoes suddenly a challenge? Please, please, please share.
- Text me when you have a craving you're not used to. When you're suddenly desperate for fast food, or something sweet, or when you realize you hate coffee unless it has heavy cream and real sugar, now. I want to hear that I've ruined you for a healthy diet.
- This should go without saying, but text me pictures when something doesn't fit anymore.
- Text me when you're hungry outside of mealtimes, so I don't forget that you're slowly getting addicted to the feeling of being full for me.
- Text me when you used my pictures to help you keep eating. Text me and ask for pictures to help you keep eating.
- Most importantly, text me when you're uncertain. Sometimes gaining isn't fun, and sometimes reality creeps in in ways you can't enjoy in the moment. Text me when you need someone to tell you you'll be ok. Let me do all of my job as your feeder, because you're not supposed to have to do this alone.
goodnight tumblr. remember: the tummy