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timemachineyeah https://timemachineyeah.tumblr.com/post/655026722858745856/listen-im-a-firm-believer-in-evidence-based :

Listen, I’m a firm believer in evidence based medicine. I don’t have the kind of mistrust for medical science that leads one to be anti-vaxx or go into crystal healing or homeopathy or whatever. I generally agree that the first person you should ask about your health is a doctor.

But like

But like

After AIDS was mistaken for “a cancer caused by being gay, maybe a symptom of the Disease of Gayness” and all women’s issues were chalked up to “hysteria” (aka - You Have A Uterus Disease) and all the many

many

many

many

racist medical practices that have gone on and still go on

I just do not understand the very specific kind of left-leaning individual

who can understand all of that

and is like “No but fatness is the one kind of human diversity that actually just is itself an illness and actually you can just diagnose someone with Being Fat and not explore their healthcare further. Go lose weight if you want basic dignity, chubbo.”

Like sometimes I’ll get these replies to some of my posts and I’ll go to the blog (to block them) fully expecting to see, like, a racist or a troll or something and I find the blog of an otherwise seemingly somewhat socially aware thoughtful individual who apparently lost all their compassion and critical thinking skills the second a fattie was mentioned.

It’s not the only marginalized category of people that experiences this phenomenon. But that doesn’t stop it from being infuriating. There’s a very specific kind of despair and helplessness felt when looking at someone who by all rights should by an ally and hearing them say “We need to end all human suffering.

Except you.” (Your picture was not posted)

Comments

[sabotabby]

It's ridiculous. There's a lot of research that amounts to weight being largely out of our control, the weight loss industry being amongst the nastiest of corrupt capitalists and also bad science, and health outcomes being much more attached to anti-fat prejudice in health care than anything inherent to weight.