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Intense but ultimately effective “fat people are ugly” culture

Der_Einzige 2y ago
This is also the source of why much of SE/east asia is super thin despite a heavily rice based diet. It's not because the food is uniquely healthy, it's that being overweight is a social death sentence there. Fat shaming has amazing ROI from a public health perspective. Luckily we invented Ozempic, which gives us a way out from the wallmart scooter obese hellscape that the USA is in - but the social "restigmatization" of obesity may be necessary because - like it or not - it's better to have been bullied into living to be 80, than it is to be "happy-go-lucky" into an early grave (after the diabetes induced amputations). Certainly this is true for the kids of these folks, anyway. We've normalized a society of dying young and dying from preventable stuff that was ultimately induced from metabolic syndrome
- Ylpertnodi 2y ago
  >....why much of SE/east asia is super thin despite a heavily rice based diet. I would say: ....why much of SE/east asia is super thin because of a heavily rice based diet.
  - orwin 2y ago
    If you replace their rice by the white rice you find in the US, it would turn in a 'despite'.
    - Taikonerd 2y ago
      Why? What's the difference in the rice?
- silverquiet 2y ago
  > it's that being overweight is a social death sentence there The US isn't really all different. There's a veneer of acceptance, but it's just that.
  - Der_Einzige 2y ago
    Have you seen the Deep South? At some point the majority literally "outweighs" and forces it into acceptability despite it's abhorrence. Similar to how accepted circumcision is despite how fucked it is when one thinks about it.
    - silverquiet 2y ago
      How many obese people do you see on Fox News?
      - Der_Einzige 2y ago
        That's because fox news viewers are overwhelmingly geriatrics who viewed trumps comments about thinking about "sex" everytime he thinks about his daughter as recognition of their own desires towards their own family members. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EPEkk6qWkg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EPEkk6qWkg They are happy to admit that they only want to see young blond types to deliver the news about how the democrats are the antichrist.
      - b3ing 2y ago
        They aren’t going to hire anyone overweight
  - marcuskane2 2y ago
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This is also the source of why much of SE/east asia is super thin despite a heavily rice based diet. It's not because the food is uniquely healthy, it's that being overweight is a social death sentence there. Fat shaming has amazing ROI from a public health perspective. Luckily we invented Ozempic, which gives us a way out from the wallmart scooter obese hellscape that the USA is in - but the social "restigmatization" of obesity may be necessary because - like it or not - it's better to have been bullied into living to be 80, than it is to be "happy-go-lucky" into an early grave (after the diabetes induced amputations). Certainly this is true for the kids of these folks, anyway. We've normalized a society of dying young and dying from preventable stuff that was ultimately induced from metabolic syndrome

Ylpertnodi 2y ago
>....why much of SE/east asia is super thin despite a heavily rice based diet. I would say: ....why much of SE/east asia is super thin because of a heavily rice based diet.
- orwin 2y ago
  If you replace their rice by the white rice you find in the US, it would turn in a 'despite'.
  - Taikonerd 2y ago
    Why? What's the difference in the rice?
silverquiet 2y ago
> it's that being overweight is a social death sentence there The US isn't really all different. There's a veneer of acceptance, but it's just that.
- Der_Einzige 2y ago
  Have you seen the Deep South? At some point the majority literally "outweighs" and forces it into acceptability despite it's abhorrence. Similar to how accepted circumcision is despite how fucked it is when one thinks about it.
  - silverquiet 2y ago
    How many obese people do you see on Fox News?
    - Der_Einzige 2y ago
      That's because fox news viewers are overwhelmingly geriatrics who viewed trumps comments about thinking about "sex" everytime he thinks about his daughter as recognition of their own desires towards their own family members. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EPEkk6qWkg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EPEkk6qWkg They are happy to admit that they only want to see young blond types to deliver the news about how the democrats are the antichrist.
    - b3ing 2y ago
      They aren’t going to hire anyone overweight
- marcuskane2 2y ago
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