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godddd i woke up so sick today it’s really freaking me out
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it’s like, OK to recognize that women are oppressed thru the body but not because of the body.
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can you (or someone else) maybe explain how trans women did not have male privilege prior to coming out? its an idea that i want to understand and support, but i just find it a little confusing? i've heard from successful trans women that male privilege is what got them to where they were before they came out. if u don't wanna answer i understand, thank u anyways 💖
Hey! So messages like this are almost always, in my experience, in bad faith, but I’m gonna hope that this one was sent in good faith and try to give an adequate answer.
Any answer has to start off with noting that “privilege” is shorthand for the collected body of a whole array of things, both external and internal, that manifest differently in different people in different contexts, and part of the reason that “______ privilege” is such a black hole of discourse is that there is no real detailed common understanding of what “privilege” means across people with different viewpoints.
The statement “trans women had (or have) male privilege” is based on an understanding of privilege that collapses everything into “growing up, people saw that you were a boy, and they gave you all the privileges and opportunities accorded to boys.” And that fails for a couple of reasons. The first is that it makes of boyhood this valorized paradise in which it is inconceivable that traumatizing relations both with authority figures and with other children happen, which is patently untrue. Even amongst the “societally normal” boys, who grow up to be cishet, neurotypical, white, middle-class men, hierarchies form and those on the bottom have a pretty rough time of it. Add in kids who differ along the lines of sexuality, race, class, and neurotypicality and that rough time increases exponentially. Closeted trans girls, or trans girls who have yet to understand themselves in those terms but who just know that they are somehow different, are overwhelmingly in the latter category. Most of them don’t merely sail through as a “normal” boy might; childhood is a deeply terrifying and traumatizing time, and frankly it’s ridiculous to believe that a “societally normal” girl in 2020 has fewer opportunities than any given boy. That’s an immaterially reductive view, a wholly idealist one.
The second reason is related to the first. In addition to flattening “boyhood” or even “manhood” into a single experience, the view that trans women had/have male privilege wholly disregards the relation that one’s mind and sense of self has with their external life, effectively making the state of being closeted a privilege in a way that many of those people would reject as ridiculous if one applied it to sexuality. A closeted gay man is not a straight man, and any playing into that heterosexual role that he might do is widely understood to be under the threat of violence should he fail to perform heterosexuality as he is compelled. A person who desperately tries to live up to manhood under the constant fear that their failure to truly be a man might be revealed at any moment and open them up to punishment is not identically situated to a man, either in their psychical life or in their relation to their social surroundings.
This isn’t even close to being exhaustive, but it’s a couple reasons that I would give why I reject “trans women have male privilege.” As far as various successful trans women saying that, I think in many cases claiming that male privilege was what got them to where they were is a way to look like they are self-reflective while actually dodging reflection. For a few of them I know in particular, attributing their earlier success to their “maleness” allows them to disregard the prominent role that their whiteness and class background had in that success. In other cases I imagine it is an effort to compromise with transmisogynists in hopes that “maybe if I agree with a few of their points they’ll see that I’m not unreasonable.”
Full offense but all these colleges and universities sending kids home should refund their housing and meal plans for those weeks.
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There’s a phenomenon where a lot of feminist and queer spaces will talk a lot about supporting trans women, and view trans women as one of the most oppressed groups there are, while at the same time being pretty inhospitable to actual trans women and more willing to ostracize and punish them for infractions which they’d forgive others for. And downstream of that, they’re rendered a lot more vulnerable to abuse by the precarity of their place in the community.
Some of what’s going on there is just, well, talk is cheap, and it’s easier to get people to say the right slogans than to actually unlearn transphobia. But I think some of it is this:
A common form of transmisogyny is the idea that a trans woman, as a man pretending to be a woman, is something threatening pretending to be nonthreatening. (Julia Serano’s “deceptive transsexual” is basically this.) Now the people in these spaces don’t think trans women are men, oh no. They’ll say “trans women are women” and fully believe it. But it’s one thing to think that trans women are women in the abstract, when the word “women” is right there in the subject of the sentence to guide you. When you’re dealing with an actual trans woman in front of you… maybe she’s got masculine features and you kind of think of her as a man even if you wouldn’t say it. Maybe she’s half a foot taller than her partner and if there’s abuse going on there, there’s no question in your mind who’s abusing whom. Maybe she said something you disagree with and well, would she really have said that if she hadn’t spent most of her life being treated as a man? Maybe she’s taking up more space than you’d like her to and that feels pretty masculine to you. And you’re not saying that she’s faking her identity or anything, but it sure is convenient for her that she can accuse people of transphobia if they point out how she’s exhibiting toxic masculinity.
So sometimes without explicit misgendering (although explicit misgendering definitely also happens), people and groups can pretty easily be convinced that trans women are wolves in sheep’s clothing, dangerous and deceptive and untrustworthy. “Trans women” in a lot of these people’s eyes, are great, but actual specific trans women not so much.
Literally nothing about the phrase "in order to lose weight you must burn more calories than you take in" proves the efficacy of calorie counting for weight loss, and there are zero studies out there proving a causal relationship between calorie counting and weight loss in the long term (there is, in fact, several to suggest that it likely does not work in the long term.)
The idea that our bodies evolved to count calories at a deficit for weight loss is ludicrous. Absolutely ridiculous. Your body does not understand cutting calories. If you are not eating the amount of food your body needs to survive, it doesn't ponder the possibility that you have more food stored up, you're just choosing not to eat more. It just assumes there is no more food. It assumes you've eaten it all. It assumes this is a time of famine. It assumes you're eating what you have and there is nothing more. Period. I can't stress that enough.
As humans, our brains are unique, but that doesn't make them fucking magical. We can't make our bodies fly just by thinking real hard about it, and we can't make our bodies do anything else they aren't designed to do just by thinking.
I don’t follow. Doesn’t the body burn fat if it’s not given enough potential energy through food to operate? Is it that the body will not necessarily burn fat if it runs at a deficit, but just scale back energy expenditure to match supply?
Yes, this is where the popular understanding of weight loss fails to comprehend how the human body actually works. Your body has the ability to adjust your basal metabolic rate either up or down, and it will if it thinks it's under the threat of starvation. If you've ever cut calories and felt lethargic, cold, irritable, unable to concentrate, food obsessed, etc., that was your body's biological response to thinking you're starving. We have studies that show that cutting calories could affect your basal metabolic rate for a long time after you're done dieting. The reason people gain back weight after cutting calories largely isn't because they've "gone back to their old habits", but rather because their BMR is now affected.
Your body is meant to store fat and then burn it, but calorie counting at a deficit for weight loss makes your body go into "starvation mode" and protect itself. It does far more harm than good.
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People in the comments like „What are you complaining about, 55 hours is nothing, I work much more than that, they‘re just lazy!!“ - I hope you realise that you are doing exactly what people like Bezos want you to do: willingly throwing yourself into the meatgrinder of capitalism, with an insult to your fellow workers no less, while completely ignoring the fact that if Bezos (and people like him) actually paid his workers in accordance with their productivity, instead of hoarding the money for himself, no one would have to work that much.
it honest to god amazes me that they have convinced themselves that the people working themselves to literal collapse don’t deserve to be paid more and yet somehow Jeff Bezos has apparently done enough in their minds to justify earning one hundred fucking billion dollars
would you say it's capitalism to blame for the "obesity epidemic" since they're forcing shit food and diets on us?
My feelings on this are complicated. If you’re looking at it the way people look at it when they’re talking about the “obesity epidemic”, then yes.
However, I don’t think it’s obesity that’s the problem. People are looking at our current health crisis as though obesity is causing it all, and I wouldn’t say that. I would say that capitalism is the cause of the diet that has caused so many more people to gain weight, but I would say that the other chronic issues are the problem.
It’s like putting the cart before the horse. for instance if a fat person has type 2 diabetes, we say it’s because they’re fat when the reality is that the same thing that causes someone to develop type 2 diabetes (ie how your body handles glucose) can also cause someone to gain weight
Idk if that makes sense??
I’m trying to think of how to better word this. I don’t think obesity is the problem. I think obesity is seen as the problem because it’s often paired with other issues as though obesity causes those problems, and it doesn’t. Someone with high blood pressure will have it blamed on them being fat, when the reality is that what caused their weight gain was likely the same thing that caused their higher blood pressure.
My father has always been skinny, but he had a heart attack very early and had high blood pressure. He eats like shit. But nobody ever says anything about it because he’s thin. My ex mother in law is the same way. Thin, high blood pressure, and has never eaten a vegetable in her life, probably. She’s the fast food queen. I once saw a look of horror cross her face when they brought her a burger with lettuce and tomato on it. She had a stroke in her thirties, but nobody says anything about how she eats.
What’s most likely happening is that their body deals with glucose very easily. They likely don’t secrete a ton of insulin or something. But this does not negate the other effects that their diet has on them. Their diets have caused chronic health issues. If they were fat, it would be blamed on their weight, when the reality is that literally the only difference would be how their body regulates hormones and glucose
When I was at my high weight of 277, people were surprised to find I had perfect blood pressure. When I was fat and pregnant, they were always surprised that I had zero signs of diabetes. And I bought into it because at that time, I didn’t know any better. These were medical professionals! The problem is that all of this science is so fucked up and built on false premises that started in the fifties and just snowballed to what it is today.
We attribute high blood pressure and diabetes to fatness, so when fat patients present with these conditions, we tell them to lose weight and that’s it. Considering how bad our understanding of nutrition and weight loss is, many people die of conditions that would be treatable if we didn’t have an obesity first policy.
My grandmother died.
The reality is that you can be fat and healthy. You can be fat and unhealthy. You can be skinny and healthy or skinny and unhealthy. We need to extract our prejudices about obesity from the equation or more people will continue to die.
Thankfully, the science is turning around, but I anticipate it will get worse before it gets better. But it WILL get better. I’m seeing the writing on the wall right now. It’s no longer career suicide to have a dissenting opinion on these topics, as it was before. I’m hopeful for the future, but unfortunately for today fatphobia continues to kill.
I want to see the studies that say people only work like five hours a day because, like, while I believe in a twenty hour workweek at most, it feels like that's a study that was conducted on office workers or something. I can tell you right here and now working in a factory I work more than five hours a day.
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