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Well I was about to get excited and tell people about another new item that Hot Topic is again for some reason releasing for Steven Universe in the year 2025 but I got distracted by how irritated I am about the presentation.

This new star ringer baby tee comes in straight sizes and plus sizes (for uh five bucks more). Anyone who's ever tried to buy plus sizes is used to seeing the fat tax, and I get that some people offer explanations like "they need more material tho" and "they're not as in demand." Whatever, I'm not a marketer. But I do wanna know why Hot Topic is now doing the Headless Fatty thing.

Look at the difference in how these products are presented.

Straight-size model gets several cute shots with their face as part of the presentation. Plus-size model has their face cut off in ALL shots. (And I checked--if you blow these up, you still can't see a full shot of this person.)

One thing you'll learn if you ever check out how heavier people are presented in news stories (usually with alarming voice-over about the obesity epidemic) is that when they film fat people, they cut off their heads and just show their body. It's pretty dehumanizing and weird.

I'd love if the product photos on Hot Topic's site could do a better and more consistent job of showing what plus-size clothing they have in a way that's similar to how they present their straight-size clothing. Especially since there are many, MANY people who need the plus sizes that I know in these fan communities and would probably love to give Hot Topic their money if they stock the right sizes. I've been so delighted to keep seeing new designs and things for Steven Universe coming out from Hot Topic and it just really a let-down when I see stuff like this.

(And though I know I don't know this model's story and do not in fact know whether they asked to be anonymized, it's generally unlikely most of the time that someone who is a MODEL doesn't want their photo out there, and the "headless fatty" phenomenon is a thing regardless of whether an individual example fits the typical profile.)

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idk if i have the right language to make this observation, but... i've noticed a lot of silicon valley types have adopted a view of life, humanity, and living that is based in disgust. you see it in the way they talk about death, about eating, about their own bodies.

a human body has needs, quirks, tics, gets hungry, gets scratched, gets old, yawns, sneezes, bleeds. when this happens to them, guys like bryan johnson and peter theil react with loathing. it would be better, they say, to replace it with a machine, which could be made perfect and clean. immortal and rational. free from physical sensations.

look at any interview with bryan johnson where he discusses his pathetic, hubristic pipe dream "don't die." (or the work of his post-lesswrong sycophants). his philosophy is germaphobia, extended to all living things

this manifests as a gerenal disdain for humanity. universal germaphobia becomes universal ableism. if we're all flawed, imperfect, sweaty meat bags, then you'd be insane to trust the unwashed masses with any real power. the only rational people are the visionary tech CEOs who can see humanity for what it is. they will lead us out of sin and depravity and our own shit into a white and chrome future, where no one has to die and no one has to feel.

i think this is the root of the obsession with creating artificial superintelligence. like peptide-induced immortality, it's a fantasy technology with no grounding in any real science. but if you take that disgust for human life, and mix it with silicon valley's toxic positivity and startup culture, you get... faith. the only way these guys can live with themselves is to take it on faith that one day, they will be able to build a god, and that god will build them a heaven, and they won't have to eat or drink or piss or age or itch or smile ever again

any other political or material goals are nothing to them, when weighed in the scales of salvation. fuck the world, it's too icky to live.

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