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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the "eat less" people's worlds are being rocked by glps and the more frequent recognition/diagnosis of lipedema. They've lost their moral high ground and ache to find a way to regain their superiority.  [/quote]

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That ache is so fascinating to see on this site! All these miserable, skinny women who base their self esteem on being thinner than everyone else are suddenly not so special anymore. It's entertaining.[/quote]

I feel like the bitterness comes not so much from a sense of lost superiority but more from a growing realization that their self-imposed suffering was needless. [/quote]

Some of you people are soo invested in this narrative that thin women are so mad about ozempic. I am thin. I have been thin my whole life. I don't get any kind of good feeling about being thinner than other people. I know a few people who have struggled with weight and use ozempic/wegovy/zepbound or whatever and are having good results - not only losing weight but feeling physically better and I am truly happy for them. [b]I think overweight people think that other people are thinking about them wayyy more than they actually are.[/b] [/quote]

If you look at these threads, you can see that people often *don't* have an indifferent or live-and-let-live attitude about these medications. The emotional response a number of people seem to have about other people's use of the medications is really intense. [/quote]

I am with the other poster. I am not sure i see that narrative about thin women being mad about ozempic because it makes them less special or because they are jealous. That sounds a bit unhinged tbh. I am "naturally" thin by DCUM standards. Not as athletic as i would like but undeniably thin. And I am happy for people finding solutions that work for them and make them more comfortable in their body. Happy for my friends IRL who take ozempic and finally see results or for the DCUM posters. You being thin or overweight doesn't affect me.

I 100% believe that ozempic helped reveal new insights on metabolic health and why some people really have a hard time staying thin despite drastic efforts. It looks like a pretty amazing drug. What I am personally worried about are the potential  side effects of taking the drug or the sustainability of the process, but not because i find it morally wrong, just because i don't want anybody getting hurt. And def no anger and judgement.

If there is an anger narrative i have noticed it more coming from the overweight and the health focus groups. From the overweight and/or body image conscious people because of the fear that it creates new standards and a backlash on acceptance of all body types, that ozempic could feed ED-like behaviors, a return to the heroin-chic look of the late 90s-early 2000s and an additional moral judgement on the poor who cannot afford to buy ozempic and be thin. From the health focus/exercise group because it makes people again too focused on losing weight and pulling them away from focusing on having a strong healthy body in favor of "superficial" "vanity" weight loss (a bit like the cigarette weight loss ads of the 1950s). The judgement here being that Ozempic could allow people to skip the motivation and discipline for exercise, which would be a mistake.

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