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Post by Michael Carr: twitter.com/MrMike_62/status/931598887986565120

Your friends from the 1960s South said roughly the same when this happened. Don’t let the turbo-lift doors hit you on the way out.

thisisthinprivilege

I work at a daycare with infants.

One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.

There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”

My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”

To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”

Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn’t think she’s too fat to be allowed to eat.

thecrazygeek-rant

This reminds me of a cousin of mine who ended up with her kids being taken away from her by social services for a number of reasons but mostly for nearly killing her baby daughter. How?

By starving her. She insisted that her baby was ‘too fat’ and had an aim to remove any and all ‘chubbyness’ so her baby would be thin. She’d already been warned by her doctor about the baby not getting enough food, but insisted she knew best.

After several months of this her baby passed out cold one day and was rushed into hospital where the doctors found her to have severe malnutrition, a low body temperature and low pulse rate. They asked my cousin what she’d been feeding her daughter and she said “one bottle of skimmed milk a day. I don’t want her growing up fat.”

Even after nearly killing her daughter my cousin maintained her view that fat = bad and ended up with all her kids taken from her because she was starving them and neglecting them.

When your fatphobia leads you to starving your own children then you’ve got serious problems.

(Note. She still, to this day, maintains the view that she was right and the doctors were wrong. “They just want fat kids so they can keep employed treating them for all those diseases that being fat causes.” = her actual words.)

sinthiasweet

My mom had me dieting with her when I was eleven. She had me eating less than 600 calories a day because she was worried I was going to “get huge.” She even grounded me once because she found out my friends were bringing me lunches! I ended up passing out, going to the ER, and getting two IVs at once BC I was so goddamn dehydrated. Soooooo surprised they didn’t call child services… And looking back, this was the root of my anorexia. I’m nearly 22 and still fighting it. Please don’t starve your fucking children.

viergacht

For fucks sake babies are SUPPOSED to be fat, what is wrong with people? It’s just stored energy, and growing children need stored energy - an 11 year old is just about to hit some major growing years. Damn.

fattyatomicmutant-deactivated20

Fatphobia

Real

and it kills

mexicanxthighs-deactivated20190

This is no joke. people will literally starve their own babies cause they don’t want them getting fat. A parent brought in their six month old baby who was having breathing issues and kept getting sick. the parent was asked if the baby was eating regularly and the parent straight up told the doctor that they only feed the baby once a day. ONCE A DAY. A FUCKING BABY. they even had the nerve to say because they didn’t want the baby to get fat. people like this are real. they would rather have a dead baby than a fat one.

bigfatscience

My youngest son is a very big boy and has been since he was born. When he was 10 months old I took him for his well-baby check and vaccinations. The nurse noted his weight and said, quite casually, “He is in the 99th percentile for weight so he is at risk for obesity. You may want to keep an eye on that.” I said, “He is exclusively breastfed. He refuses to eat any solids yet.” What did she expect me to do? What would it mean to “keep an eye on” an exclusively breastfed baby’s weight?

She backed off saying, ‘Well he looks fine!” – proving once again that weight bias is not truly about health – But I know many other parents who are not as informed as I am about weight science and size diversity would react to this interaction by policing their child’s food intake, if not as an infant, then when he was an older child. This is exactly the type of seemingly-inconsequential interaction that starts the ball rolling on a lifetime of dieting, disordered eating, negative body image, and weight-based abuse for too many fat people.

Years later when he was five, another doctor measured his weight and height and commented that he is off the charts on both, but “at least he is in proportion.” And if he was not “in proportion,” I am sure I would have been advised once again to “watch his weight.”

I no longer allow healthcare providers to weight my children unless it is absolutely medically necessary. They are unable to control their weight talk, which is a known harm for children.

We need to completely eliminate weight talk from medicine, especially when it comes to children. Even the smallest exposure can have terrible consequences.

loverofbrownsugar

Wtf…

mainstreamqueen-deactivated2020

A friend from college had been going to the doctor because she was having trouble breathing. She was told to lose weight. Over the course of several years, she went back to the doctors time and time again, telling them that she’d been sticking to the diet but because of her breathing problems she had been unable to even walk for more than 20 minutes at a time. The doctor got her into an exercise programme and told her that she just needed to really try to lose weight because that was clearly the reason for her breathing problems. By the time they found the tumour on her lungs, it was inoperable. She only lived three months after diagnosis. She was 25. She’d had the tumour for over five years. The doctor was so focused on the fact that my friend was “fat”, that they refused to look for any underlying cause. They killed her.

thisisthinprivilege

Weight-first treatment KILLS. Fatphobia KILLS.

lady-yomi-deactivated20171102

I have 2 scary stories to share about fatphobic doctors & parents harming their childs/patients’ health:

1. The 4 years old daughter of a friend of mine came to our house to spend the weekend. She gave me a letter from her mom that said that the child was in a glutenfree diet because she was getting ‘awfully fat’ when eating cookies or bread (my celiac ass; who gets dhiarrea and loses a scary amount of weight whenever I eat something with gluten was like ’???’).

You can bet that I went to the supermarket with the kid and told her ‘go & take whatever you feel like eating’ and the poor child came back smiling with her arms full of biscuits and cupcakes.

She didn’t got sick (as a celiac would get) and told me later that she hated the diet her mother made her follow; because her cousins didn’t had to pass through that.

And what’s the scariest thing about this story? Her mother was a NURSE. A fucking nurse who didn’t have a clue of the harm that she was doing to her daughter’s body!

2. My little sister started to feel fatigued and dizzy at 9 years old. She felt nauseated at the sight of food and had abdominal pain that increased with physical activity.

Mom got her to the ER and the doctor dismissed it saying: ‘she’s fat and probably is feeling ill after eating too much burgers, get her to make some exercise and she will be better in no time’.My mom didn’t felt ok with the diagnosis and took my sister with a second doctor who also told her that ‘the child was just fat’.

My sister’s skin was starting to get yellow as the days passed and the abdominal pain was getting awful so my mom (heaven bless her!) got her to the ER for the third time:

SHE HAD STAGE 4 HEPATITIS AND WAS ABOUT TO DIE.

She survived after a long and painful recovery who involved being in bed for a whole year (remember that we’re speaking of a 9 years old child). Luckily they saved her liver and she didn’t went through a transplant… but let this sink:

If it weren’t for my mother, fatphobia would have killed her. Fatphobia kills kids and teenagers, fatphobia kills inocent people everyday. It treats human beings as lesser than others and hurts them in their most vulnerable times.

It’s a real shame that we all have so much stories to share about this issue. A REAL SHAME.

agreekdoctor

Future doctors, interns, and residents following me:

FUCKING TAKE NOTE OF THIS!

Don’t let bias against your fat patients kill them!

clatterbane

(#and this is just when we actually go to the doctor and tell them we have problems #how many of us just give up #or won’t mention anything that seems like too much of a ‘fat’ problem)

thelittlestastronaut

i’d really like my thin followers to reblog this if you can. fat people are already here for each other, we need you guys to help us out too. this is something i never see anyone actually talking about in-depth, and it’s disappointing. be there for your fat siblings, too.

johnnynemo

Just a question, but if you eliminate the weight talk from children how can a doctor (or anyone really) help the child if they have serious medical issues that stem from their weight. Also, how can a malnourished baby be in the 99th percentile? Not asking to seem flippant or pious just genuinely confused.

thisisthinprivilege

There are NO illnesses or problems that are proven to result from being fat, only illnesses that CORRELATE with being fat. Many of those illnesses CAUSE WEIGHT GAIN, and others have common sources (like genetics) with weight gain. There are NO proven health benefits from losing weight (other than losing a SMALL amount of weight POSSIBLY putting off developing type 2 diabetes for a few years, but pre-diabetes is one of the conditions that makes you GAIN WEIGHT). And there are NO methods of long-term major weight loss that WORK. There is no way for a fat person to intentionally lose enough weight to become thin and stay that way. More than 95% of people who lose a lot of weight GAIN IT ALL BACK WITHIN FIVE YEARS. More than 60% of them GAIN BACK MORE WEIGHT THAN THEY LOST.

You’re ignorant and fatphobic and have no clue what you’re talking about. Go read @bigfatscience if you want the studies, they keep track better than we do these days.

Weight talk is dangerous and causes all kinds of mental health problems, including but not limited to eating disorders. Dieting in childhood damages the metabolism and makes kids MORE likely to grow up fat, not LESS.

-MG

papi-chulo-bucky

Deadass one of my older sisters starved my niece like this to the point where she had to be taken to the emergency room. She was just a toddler and my sisters obsession with calorie intake nearly costed my niece her life. :’(

aforkintheroad11234-deactivated

The only thing I’d like to add to this discussion is that weight-based talks are necessary in medicine to an extent. Medicines are prescribed based on weight, because of how the body will metabolise it.

palpablenotion

Do you know how rarely weight is taken into consideration when prescribing medicine? For the most part, weight based dosing is a fringe thing.

When administering anesthesia is basically the only time I can think of that definitely considers weight, and there are so many other factors that go into determining dosage there (drug interactions, conditions/disorders, food consumption)

And of course, metabolism, which is different for everyone. Weight gain can be an indicator of a slow metabolism just as never gaining weight can be an indicator of a very fast metabolism (I have a friend who was doing everything he could to hit 100lbs and half the time he would binge, he’d end up losing a pound rather than gaining).

Here’s the counter intuitive part, because society likes to view us fat people as if we consume more of everything - more space so we should pay for it, more fabric so our clothes should cost more, more food, more everything. But so many factors go into administering anesthesia that my morbidly obese father might take less drugs to make it through a procedure than an incredibly thin, fit person who has a ridiculously fast metabolism. He might take more than someone still fat but smaller than him who has a very slow metabolism.

And it depends on how it gets metabolized. If it goes through the liver, there are a lot of precautions that need to be taken as metabolizing means storing in fat. Liver disorders can seriously slow this down. Kidney disorders can also slow this down as the liver often tries to metabolize fat soluble substances so they don’t get stored/build up.

In fact, how your kidneys and liver work is by far more important and not at all indicated by your weight.

Weight needs to be treated far more like a symptom and less like the universal causation. And that means that, by itself, it doesn’t actually indicate anything.

thisisthinprivilege

Why I always roll my eyes at BUT DOSAGES!

overblush

why did the fray go off so hard in how to save a life?

how-hufflepuff

So we could cry when they lose patients on doctor shows

just-shower-thoughts

Realizing that kids today aren’t even impressed by Charles Manson because he only killed 7 people.

dynastylnoire

Realizing that Manson had wealthy white people murdered because he planned framing black people for them to start a race war

Realizing that motive of the murders was based on white supremacy and that tid bit is almost always erased from the discussion

world-shaker-deactivated2013092

Want to collaborate on a Google Doc with Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Dickinson, Dickens and Poe?

Click here. Start typing. Enjoy the hilarity.

Ninja Update: Wanna see something fun? Mention Shakespeare in a sentence and see what happens.

couragemadnessfriendshiplove

Poe kept writing distinctly into my sentences so I wrote ”Edgar, you’re not funny” aND HE BLATANTLY DELETED THE NOT I AM SO DONE WITH THIS ASDFKJL

eisbecherovka-deactivated201604

OH GOD IF YOU TYPE “EDGAR ALLAN POE” POE ADDS A :( AFTER HIS NAME PRECIOUS BABY

binbou-kun

Oh my God so I typed ‘Shakespeare’ and Shakespeare butted in and wrote ‘The lovely and handsome Shakespeare’ but Poe burst in saying ‘The dreadful and lonely Shakespeare’.

aND FYODOR DOSTOYVESKY ADDED ‘ I do not wish to make myself a laughing-stock before these idle listeners.”

I’M DONE.

aka-spunkynuggets

Look what they did to All Star by Smash Mouth

“Somebody once hushedly told me the world is going to roll me. I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed. She was looking kind of glocky with her finger and her thumb in the shape of a “L” on her forehead. Well, the years start voraciously coming and they don’t stop coming; fed to the rules and I hit the ground running. It didn’t make sense absolutely to live for fun. Thy brain gets smart but your head gets dumb. So much to do, so much to behold. So what’s wrong with taking the back busy thoroughfares? In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. You’ll never know if thou don’t go. “You’ll never shine if you don’t glow”, he growled incoherently. Hey presently, you’re an All Star. Get your game on; go play. Hey now, you’re a Rock Star. Get the show on; get laid. As well as all that glitters is gold, only shooting stars break the mold. ~All Star by Smash Estuary of opinion…”

autonomousprince

Imagine putting your research paper in here and letting them go at it.

feasibleweasel

OH MY GOD I WAS WRITING AND EDGAR WOULDN’T STOP FIXING THINGS SO I WROTE “Edgar shut up I’m trying to write” and he changed it to “Edgar shut up I’m meagerly attempting to write” THIS FUCKING ASSHOLE

asophiora-deactivated20160419

I typed in “Hello” and Shakesphere erased it and wrote “Begone with this rubbish.”

HOW R00d

taakosquad

I typed “party in the Usa” and Poe changed party to “ill-fated gathering”

savior-loki

I just used it to yell at Dickens about Tale of Two Cities, I am happy now

barrett-the-babe

I typed in ‘hello other writers’ and Edgar Allen Poe changed it to ‘Hello secondary writers’

pinkharlequinn

After I had been writing for a while Edgar suddenly deleted my last sentence and wrote “THE END.” rude son of a bitch

fancyladssnacks

I have to try this.

mojavejourneys

Rebageled again but to add if the link above doesn’t work, try this one instead.

drakes-hoard

OH MY GOD.

I made Emily Dickinson and Charles Dickens fight

Shakespeare helped me insult Poe

And Poe wants to be as mysterious as a cat.

cherrycoloredsky-archive

Mine isn’t working? Can someone help?

drakes-hoard

A new link is up, which you can find here!!!

ghostnerddan

This was a lot of fun.

here-to-vent-deactivated2018062

Oh my gosh…

flamboyantly-employing

My phone crashed and when I got the doc back of Shakespeare told me to stop being a lazy piece of shit and one of them replaced the word ‘friend’ with ‘secret enemy’ which is kind of worrying. Try the second link guys.

satanicshamrock

@lilflamingoshorts

badromantics

William Shakespeare changed the word “lawyer” to “implorator in an unholy suit” i SWEAR TO GOD WILLIAM

colourscrash

brian eno on the windows 95 startup chime

iguanamouth

huffpost

tillyouandiseethesun-deactivate

this isn’t even a problem

explorblr

This is how I envision hogwarts homework being done

trek-tracks

The real Turnabout Intruder in this episode is that McCoy’s being a hardass about science and logic while Spock is hooked on a feeling

(Scotty must be losing his mind)

becausepine-blog

“He (Kirk) inferred that universe-ending paradoxes would ensue should he break his promise.”

straight-outta-hobbiton

I get the feeling that Spock learned this early, having had to sit through one too many rants from Bones about how the Captain doesn’t eat his fucking vegetables. So, to spare his poor ears and the doctor’s heart, all of a sudden Spock stops eating whenever Jim sits down next to him with a steak. He tosses his food out (Bones is onto him from the get-go and makes a point to bring him snacks in thanks for his efforts) and excuses himself because he’s very busy and slips away into his labs or whatever. Jim’s a smart guy, so this happens three or four times tops before he realizes it’s the meat. Suddenly he’s thinking he’s being insensitive to his vegetarian alien friend’s culture and customs, and God, he’s such a bad person, so the next time he catches sight of Spock in the mess, he goes and orders himself a salad and plops himself down across from Spock and tries to act cool about it, but Spock knows, and so does Bones, who’s doing his best to play Vulcan and keep a straight face when he catches Spock’s eye. Jim never catches on, or if he does he never says anything, because Goddammit, that was clever.

(Also, sidenote: Jim at some point forced Spock to watch Back to the Future, and that knowledge is what Spock was banking on when he implied universe-ending paradoxes)

thelegendofclarke

When I find my ship in times of trouble,

Fanfic authors come to me,

Speaking words of wisdom: Ao3.

thelegendofclarke

And when some broken-hearted shippers,

Don’t get a canon otp,

There will be an answer: Ao3.

thelegendofclarke

And in my hour of darkness,

The Archive is in front of me,

With the filter set on “Rated E.”

albymangroves

@cesperanza they’re playing our song

ezrisdax-archive

- Nichelle Nichols

startrekkinuniverse

Happy 51st Anniversary of Star Trek

i-remember-there-was-mist

Today I shut my cat in the fridge.

Okay, so here’s the deal. Tali loves the fridge. I don’t know why, but every single time we open it, she bolts for it and jumps in. She crawls into the back of the fridge and nestles int the smallest little corner she can. Now naturally, my biggest fear has been that I’ll close the fridge without knowing she’s in there. And of course, today I went to go grab my Brita filter to pour myself some water. I wasn’t really watching the fridge, and I just opened and closed it really quickly to put the Brita back while I was looking somewhere else. And then I looked around and realized that Tali had been in the kitchen, and now she was nowhere in sight. So immediately, I throw open the fridge door, and there is is, hanging out in the back, content as can be.

i-remember-there-was-mist

Fridge cat just got weirder. Today Tali got into the bathroom while I was showering, which of course made me a little nervous. I didn’t want her to freak out and hurt herself or go on a scratching spree. But evidently she loves water, so she jumped in and just splashed around for a while and got back out. But then she kept whining to get back in, so my boyfriend put a cooler down so she could get in and out with ease, which she took great advantage of. She’s soaking wet now, and very content.

i-remember-there-was-mist

I told Tali she was famous. She and her stuffed husky celebrated.

theapatheticstag

This is the kind of content I joined for

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

please tell her I think she is neat <3

dellaliz19

One of the greatest mysteries of our time has finally been solved.

glassescatmurk

Can someone prove Rose is the author?? I won’t believe until I see proof.

iwilleatyourenglish

there’s not really any proof. i really doubt it.

she came forward as the author of My Immortal at the same time she was starting to promote a book she’s written… seems convenient idk

roidcel-deactivated20190609

she had a lawyer prove that she is the original author of my immortal. she has a flash drive with the first 11 unedited chapters of my immortal and access to the original email address used to sign up for ff.net