#health over thinness

[uwudonoodle]

[not-gray-politics]

Trans women. I'm grabbing you by the shoulders and yelling. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE SKINNY TO BE FEMININE AND PRETTY AND CUTE. PLEASE STOP MAKING DIETS PART OF YOUR TRANSITION GOALS. WEIGHT LOSS IS A SCAM. I LOVE YOU. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES. YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL.

[mariemariemaria]

Does anybody else feel like mental health awareness has done very little to help them in material reality

[the-yearning-astronaut]

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[bywandandsword]

have you seen a guy in shorts drinking an iced coffee while standing outside in the snow while it's actively snowing yet?

Not yet, but I have heard a couple guys in the ecology department talk about going swimming in the Penobscot River next week

You know, like crazy people who like playing fast and loose with frostbite

[spicysucculentz]

when the RA is knocking on the door to do the health and safety check but we’ve got at least 5 different bottles of vodka out on the coffee table, the recycling bin overflowing with empty white claws, candles burning, and cart in hand

[ratsalad]

you guys ever get gender euphoria just from watching a scene? for me it's that bit in early season 8 of house when he trims off all the hair he grew in prison in the hospital bathroom while park watches. the beginning of the scene is silent too, there's no music, so you can hear the clippers and. god. it makes my brain thrum. something so ritual and anticipatory and freeing about it

[alsaurus-loves-dean]

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[timeisacephalopod]

The fact that cigarette companies exist is fucking dystopian and a sign of the failure of capitalism as an ideology- cigarettes are a product that undeniably caused a bunch of different cancers, we've all seen the tobacco death stats on the back of cig cartons smokers have, and yet. And yet, for some reason instead of saying "zero businesses should be selling cancer causing products to their customers, certainly not when those cancer causing products are so dangerous even the smoke of the product causes cancers in the people around smokers. Businesses have zero right to cause a massive health crisis in the population like this when their only function is to make money- you cannot give people cancer for profit."

Like you'd assume giving people cancer for money would be some kind of fucked dystopian novel that'd get ripped on for being way too over the top and unrealistic but no, we literally live in such a morally bankrupt capitalist brain rotted society that we think selling cancer is fine, we won't do anything about a set of companies that exist solely to get customers addicted to their highly dangerous product for profit. Instead we'll act like it's smokers who need to take responsibility for the industry that's exploiting them. Fucking disgusting if you ask me, that we're more okay with companies giving people cancer than we are with governments giving people welfare.

[hatchetmode]

My antidepressants are making my hair fall out

[kingcriccket]

I think the political issue i'm genuinely most radical on, at least in terms of 'baffling & jarring disconnect when i remember the way most of the world thinks about this' is like diet & weight stuff.

Read this article just waiting for it to mention that the drive to lose weight No Matter What in the face of horrifying side effects (in this case people without diabetes taking a diabetes medication- which there is now a shortage of because of this trend- because it kills your apatite) is like... troubling? & it just never came.

Losing weight 'for your health' (by the way the weight loss method causes serious health problems and you can't stop using it because, like pretty much every other weight loss method, it actually doesn't work to keep weight off long term). Like what are we doing.

[selfindulgentpixies]

writers block finally letting up for "The hands that hold you"? Finally started the next chapter without it feeling like pulling teeth.

Hopefully the trend continues . I'm gonna poke at it whenever the mood strikes and then pull it all together.

This is admittedly a tough time of year this year.

[ginger-and-oliveoil]

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[glittertimes]

As an emo kid I definitely forgot how much of scene / emo fashion really glorified skinner / smaller body types

It was definitely influenced by like pro ana and other harmful mental health / eating disorder / self harm content that was popular online / irl emo spheres. Like all the self deprecating jokes that used to be popular here on tumblr and other platforms. And all the depression blogs that were also everywhere in the 2010s

Everyone talks about how y2k fashion coming back also means the awful body standards of the era will come back, and I’m seeing how those ideas affected subcultures like emo / scene / goth as well!

skinny jeans are the most obvious example of this, but also all those t shirts with different characters on them that were really tight fitting, basically clothes that were designed with thinner bodies in mind. It was also really common for people to wear kids clothing bc most people who wore these styles (or at popular emo YouTubers, bloggers etc.) were all super thin.

I just recalled all of this while searching different online thrift stores for emo clothes and seeing almost everything was size small, extra small etc.

I definitely knew people growing up who were into emo fashion / subcultures growing up who were not stuck thin and had larger body types but if you go and search for this kind of style, you’ll mostly find pictures of really thin people, which I find interesting looking back at all this now as an adult.

[ohbutwheresyourheart]

me: I just feel so hopeless. I've been making all of the recommended changes to my life - cutting out alcohol, eating healthily, exercising, in therapy - and nothing is helping me feel even slightly better. In fact, if anything I feel like I'm getting worse. I don't know what to do and I need help. therapist: well you can't expect to lose 100lbs overnight :\

[kikikillerr-blog]

hate when you're reminded of something stressful right before bed and it's stuck on ur mind. like i can't do anything about that right now please let me sleep