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[quote=Anonymous]Skinny is one kind of body. Bodies come in different shapes. Some people will be skinny no matter how much they eat, what they eat, or how much they exercise. Some bodies will never be skinny, even if they are in perfect health. And many bodies can be skinny if you treat them like garbage (which is what you are doing when you constantly restrict calories, exercise obsessively, and even medicate yourself thin), and those skinny bodies can't be healthy because they are the result of terrible health practices. Also: bodies change! Babies change your body. Age changes your body. Menopause changes your body. Those changes are not automatically bad, and health doesn't necessarily demand that you "fix" them.

Obviously some people do struggle with genuine health effects because of excess weight, and I know from experience that trauma can cause obesity. I'm not talking about people who are seeking to lose weight because it is affecting their heart health, causing joint problems, or limiting their mobility and ability to live active lives. I get it -- that's real and hard and it's a slog and I'm not second guessing you. That really is about health.

No, I'm talking about women who are obsessed with getting down to a size 2 or 4 but rather than just admit it's because of social pressure to be thin, claim to simply be focused on "health."

Why am I ranting about this? I'm sure I'll get 40 posters telling me to MYOB. Well that's the problem, actually. As a woman with a body, I am deeply impacted by this collective delusion, and I am constantly being concern trolled by women who have socially condoned eating disorders, claiming their absolutely insane "health regimens" of fad diets, supplements, bastardized holistic medicine, and sometimes straight up pharmaceuticals, are actually "taking care of themselves."

No, taking care of yourself would be talking to a therapist about your body dysmorphia. The rest of this shit is bananas. And don't think I haven't noticed that you're all UMC white women, because I have. Stop using "health" as a smokescreen for your lifelong obsession with thinness. You are making it harder for the rest of us.[/quote]

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