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DiscussionMale Reactions to Female Fat Activists
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Lately, I’ve been watching some cringey fat acceptance videos (I know, I know) as they motivate me to keep (healthily and slowly, mind you) losing weight and getting fit. However, I notice that a lot of male YouTubers (e.g. Not DayVit, TheCynicalDude – I just find them funny and entertaining to watch, though sometimes ignorant) who react to these videos – which are usually of female fat activists – say, “If you ate like me, you’ll lose weight 100%,” and that “overall, our bodies are pretty much the same”.
Don’t get me wrong, I do think if people ate better quality foods and fewer quantities of junk foods, and moved more, that would help lose weight, albeit maybe slowly (speaking for myself, though. That’s what I’ve been doing personally.). Correct me if I’ve gotten something wrong or if I’ve been insensitive, that’s just my understanding of it.
What I have an issue with is this, though – “our bodies are pretty much the same”.
But… they’re not? It just made me think of all the times women have been disregarded and neglected in the medical industry, safety procedures regarding vehicles, medicine dosages, other things, etc. Women being treated as if we’re just smaller, more vulnerable men and not as the separate, completely-our-own sex that we are. Men will gain musculature, lose weight easier (I think?), etc. They could cut out soda and lose quite a lot of weight. For women, I believe it’s a bit different? Overall, I just think a lot of these men are clueless and insensitive when it comes to women’s physiology, and it comes across as patronising and shitty.
What do you think about it?
Edit 2.0: Personally, I find a lot of fat activists ridiculous when they lecture and make reaches, though I will concede they do raise some valid points (e.g. regarding doctors and getting dismissed, particularly if they have a tumour and it hasn't been diagnosed). I understand initially it may have originated from a well-meaning place, but I think a lot of it has gone off the rails. It's not good to be underweight and it's not good to be overweight. Why does it have to be one extreme or the other?
They cope by not recognising they are feeling dissonance, only discomfort; and projecting on to their enemies.
Logic? Consistency? Connection to reality? You're asking too much of these people.
Looool, this was funny.
They are men. They don't have to prove anything. They say the words, and it becomes truth. That's how you know they are men.
They don't have to, because they're fucking stupid. They don't think about the contradiction at all.
They insist that taking estrogen will make them female on a cellular level, and magically remove those billions of XY chromosomes in those billions of somatic cells. They've seen too many shows like The Incredible Hulk where people are shapeshifting after they get mad or drink some potion.
It's magical thinking and a fundamental refusal to understand that male and female are two separate developmental pathways, starting at the moment of conception, that cannot be reversed. Total dishonest thinking because they have no rational or scientific arguments in their favor. They want to enforce rigid gender roles by forced sex changes. That's homophobic. That's what they do in totalitarian Muslim countries.
Mammals cannot change sex and gender is bullshit.