An 8,000-year-old marble figurine of a voluptuous woman was unearthed in 2016 in the Neolithic urban settlement of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey. The figurine is 17 centimeters long, 11 centimeters wide and weighs one kilo.
Yes! People act like fatness is an invention of the 20th century and “our hunter-gatherer ancestors wouldn’t have been obese!” Bullshit. Fat people have always existed, and our ancestors thought they were beautiful! <333
This being common is an invention of 20th century, though. And we have since learned it’s a recipe for early death.
No, it’s not a recipe for early death, please stop mindlessly rabbiting back what the multi-billion-dollar weightloss industry pumps into the world.
I beg you to listen to like one episode of Maintenance Phase or read a book or two. This modern obsession with thinness is not just wrong, it’s racist as hell.
by the time the diet industry began to flourish in the 1920s, the development of fat stigma was related not only to cultural anxieties that emerged during the modern period related to consumer excess, but, even more profoundly, to prevailing ideas about race, civilization and evolution. For 19th and early 20th century thinkers, fatness was a key marker of inferiority, of an uncivilized, barbaric, and primitive body. This idea—that fatness is a sign of a primitive person—endures today, fueling both our $60 billion “war on fat” and our cultural distress over the “obesity epidemic.”
Whatever you do, stop putting this fatphobic and factually wrong bullshit on shit you reblog from me. Medical fatphobia almost lost me the use of everything below my L1 vertebra because a doctor was so BLINDED by my BIG FAT ASS that he didn’t even bother to do any tests past looking at me and saying YEAH YOU FAT. I lived in fucking agony for years because my doctor didn’t listen. He just put me on 1300 calories a day (which is about what you feed a fucking toddler, not a 35yo adult) and ignored me when I said I wasn’t getting better. I just needed to work harder to lose the weight. Never mind that I was furious with everyone all the time because I was literally starving, and couldn’t exercise because I couldn’t fucking walk from the pain.
When I needed help to walk to the bathroom at work, my wife finally got pissed off enough to demand that I go back to my family doctor, who looked at me for a very literal thirty seconds before sending me to get an MRI of my spine. That very simple test which - again - the other doctor didn’t bother ordering for two years as I slowly lost my ability to do fuck all and missed doing cool shit with my daughter from ages 10-12? Yeah, it revealed a 2.5cm tumor growing on my spinal cord sheath, compressing my spinal cord.
I was really lucky - it was benign. I didn’t die like my friend Ginny, who had a tumor in the same spot and lost the tumor lottery. I’m lucky. Genuinely. I know of far too many fat people who fucking died because their doctors didn’t do the same tests on them that they do on skinny people.
And it’s all fucking lies! It’s all fucking lies. All that suffering and fatphobia is because of racism and money.
And here you are, vomiting up the same fucking garbage.
Don’t respond. You’re wrong, and I’m not arguing with you. Sit down, shut up, and learn before you keep perpetuating the same harmful bullshit that caused me years of agony.
fatness plus fatphobia is a recipe for early death. And it’s the fatphobia that’s critical.
Being fat will not kill you.
Doctors blaming health issues on your being fat and refusing to find the actual problem will kill you.
I suppose, on paper, that if a doctor says “The problem you are having is because you are fat” and then the patient dies, it could look like being fat killed them.
But that misses the critical part where the doctor didn’t look for the actual cause.
Fatphobia kills.
Fatphobic doctors kill.
Gonna also mention that studies have found being overweight in old age as a predictor of better health
Yup! But that would require reading literally any of the things I linked rather than just going off on a fatphobic jaunt lol
I think “fat,” and also “female” are two diagnoses that get overdone in lieu of -actual!- medical care!
Double whammy to anyone who is both 😢
As someone who has been at various points on the scale, my comfort zone lodges me into the “obese” category when looked at purely by modern medicine.
(It totally ignores the fact that I can do a 7mi hike easily, and sling weights easily. 500lbs+ leg press, anyone?)
I try to keep my weight from getting too high because I have joint issues. If I go above my happy weight, my knees let me know. — Kinda the same with my lifts: if it’s not the good hurt, I reassess and make changes.
That being said, there’s a good 50lbs range that fits as my comfort zone. Anywhere in that range, and I’m good. If I go below it, my health suffers. If I go above, my joints suffer. Since I like to hike, and I’ve already had knee surgeries in the past, I listen to them.*
Conventional medical wisdom would say that’s wayyyy too broad a range. My body and solid health says otherwise.
Other people may have wider or narrower healthy ranges depending on their frame.
I do believe *prepares to duck* that certain medical conditions can be caused, or aggravated by, an excess of adipose tissue… BUT!, the same is true when people do not have enough body fat! Multiple studies (across multiple species), has shown that being even mildly underweight is WORSE for a creature than being mildly overweight.
*listening to one’s body is a balance, and sometimes does require adjusting one’s diet and activity for one’s preferred results. Everybody, and every BODY! is different.
As someone who is chronically slightly underweight, I have seen how absolutely ridiculous doctors attitudes about weight are. They think that because I am thin, that I am healthy. I once had a nurse tell me I was “the peak of health” while I had a cracked rib I was trying to get examined.
I CANNOT imagine how frustrating this is for anyone on the other end of the spectrum. If the doctors are being fatphobic wankers, please know that it isn’t you. They’re absolutely bad at their jobs and they are hurting people like you (and people like me!) with their bullshit.
Honestly insane I havenât seen a single post about how a guy who made mod chips for Nintendo switches now has to pay 30% of his salary for the rest of his life to Nintendo after he was released from prison
Two articles on the topic. I have also seen on reddit that he was making around 45 thousand dollars a year before this, which⊠yeah. Absolutely horrid that Nintendo fucking does this, as if such a large corporation needs percentages from some guyâs income. Fucking jell
I think people on the internet tend to forget that Nintendo is a mega corporation and is evil like mega corporations donât let there âfamily friendlyâ aesthetic trick you there evilïżŒ
so i’ve been experimenting a while with filtering phrases, and here is a list i’ve come up with that i use to get posts that trigger my ocd / have compulsive language off my dash! this ends up taking out about 95% of these posts. i’m sharing it here so anyone who also wants to blacklist this stuff can as well.
it is helpful to me as someone with ocd to blacklist these phrases and makes tumblr much more accessible, so i hope it can also help others with ocd and similar mental illnesses (or people who just find this stuff aggravating)
phrases to blacklist that are usually used in compulsive statements related to tumblr actions:
asking for reblog
follows>likes
follows > likes
hit that reblog
ignore for
i know you see this
keep reblogging
must reblog
obligated to reblog
obligated to vote
people can reblog
people reblog
please rb
please reblog
please share
rb after voting
rb for
rb if u vote
rb if you vote
rbs > likes
rbs>likes
rb this
reblog after voting
reblog bait (people use this one as a trigger tag, so this one is better under filtered tags instead of filtered post content)
reblog for (this one tends to catch a lot of non-compulsive posts, but leaving it out allows a lot of compulsive posts onto the dash, so it’s a tossup if you want to include it)
reblog for exposure
reblog if u vote
reblog if you vote
reblog it every time
reblogs > likes
reblogs>likes
reblog this
remember to reblog
required by law to
sample size
you will reblog
just filtering the word “reblog” will also work as a catchall for most of these, but will also catch a lot of non-compulsive posts, so this list is meant to minimize that effect.
how to blacklist post content
on desktop/web: settings > account > filtered post content (should be right under filtered tags), at this url
on mobile/app: settings > account settings > content you see > filtered post content (again will be right under filtered tags)
how you can make tumblr more accessible for people with ocd and similar mental illnesses
tag posts with compulsive statements as “#reblog bait”
avoid using compulsive statements in posts - according to polls, this makes people less likely to reblog anyway! (poll 1) (poll 2)
if you are able to, avoiding sharing posts with aggressively compulsive statements would help. for example, those “reblog for good luck ignore and you’ll never have good luck again” type posts, or things with “rules”. i saw a lighthearted tournament with “From now on, if you see a matchup post - even accidentally - you are immediately morally obligated to vote one way or the other. Refusing to vote is strictly forbidden” in the pinned post. this is an example of an ocd unsafe statement. (op of that poll is not malicious though and removed that when told it was inaccessible).
avoid implying that reblogging, following, voting, etc or not doing so carries a moral value.
while reblogging a post may be very small stakes in itself, things like this can trigger compulsions that spiral into more than just reblogging a post. this is why this stuff is important even if it’s small-stakes by itself.
you are under no obligation to share this.
would love a post like this for donation/fundraising posts, as somebody who can’t donate to anybody and who sees them very often they make us feel bad, but not sure if it’s possible because people will do so many variations of censoring on their posts like censoring paypal or donation in ao many ways you can’t filter them all, (seen tjings like p*ypal, p@ypal, p@yp@l, ppal, p*yp*l, payp4l) like we wish we could help but it’s not feesable. And if we reblogged them, we already don’t reblog like everything else so if we chose to just reblog these posts that would be like all of our blog posts which we use private reblogs for important resources, instead of being able to find those it would just remind us of how we can’t help. Idk if we have ocd or not but we definitely get anxious over feeling like a bad/evil person from them.
I hate to be the one to tell you this but I have been actively extremely horny since I hit puberty when I was like twelve years old. Human development does not work like âabsolutely zero impure thoughts until you reach the designated legal sex age, where you have until 25 to finally learn what a boob is, and then 25+ youâre allowed to have consensual sex đ because 19-25-year-olds are basically minorsâ. I also can tell that the underlying idea in this ask is that I, and anyone who begins posting nsfw when they turn 18, was somehow âgroomedâ into it, when the fact of the matter is that I have been very naturally gay horny for years and waited until I was 18 to explicitly post about it because THATâS how you keep yourself safe. You donât pretend to be a delicate sexless angel with the mind of a five-year-old whoâs never heard what sex is just because youâre seventeen. I am a human being with sexual thoughts and Iâm now a legal adult who is allowed to post about them. Realize that there is a difference between external adults âwaiting until sheâs 18â and someone waiting until they themselves are 18 so they can go out and buy porn, which theyâve wanted to buy for years.
This is an extremely reductive, reactionary, infantilizing, and conservative way to speak to me. Donât even pretend you have progressive sexual politics if you think like this. Fuck yourself Iâm so serious. No one ever speak to me this way again
[ID: Discord screenshot from me, Rotting Mistake, saying âFrom age 0-17 youâre an innocent angel who has never had an impure thought in your life, from 18-25 youâre an adult minor who also canât have sex, and then at 25 your brain has fully developed (very real science) and you have about five years to have sex because anyone 30+ is a decrepit ancient hagâ. End ID]
This is breaching containment already please realize in this post that âpornâ meas Team Fortress 2 hentai
when u get out of the mindest blocking is only saved for “Bad People” and you can block perfectly fine ppl you just know theyre a little annoying to you, your experience enhances
so fucking true. hitting that block button on people who annoy me like a medieval king ordering his guards to slay the jester for being unfunny
“I don’t get why you’re so determined to defend paraphiles.”
I don’t like when people are attacked and have misinformation spread about them for something they can’t help and isn’t hurting anyone. And you should be, too. If someone hasn’t maliciously hurting someone, then I think they should be left alone.
I don’t care how weird or icky someone is, if they haven’t done anything to harm anyone, then leave them alone. Fuck.
Using this site does not mean the site is your ally, nor is it your tool to wield.
All sexualities, preferences, fetishes, and identities are valid.
If you aren’t comfortable with some of them, then you should block them, not demonize or harass them.
There’s always a better alternative.
If someone is being horrible to you, they will use a heated response as justification to treat you horribly. Kindly wish them a less hateful life and block them, or just block them without saying anything.
Some interests are more widespread than others, but no matter what you like, you can find people who like the same things.
No matter who you are in any sense, someone will love you, root for you, defend you, empathize with you, or console you. Or all of the above.
You’re cool and beautiful. Peace and love on the planet earth.
It was a preparation of viagra inserted vaginally rather than taken as a pill
The study was struggling for funding from the start and so only had 25 participants (it was intended to have 60 but many people couldnât make the appointments due to their pain)
Part of the problem is that thereâs no central funding agency (e.g. a charitable foundation) for menstrual pain, so theyâre having to compete with every other health condition for funding
