Certainly, but supporting a friend in their own endeavors is different from giving unsolicited advice to others.
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I just said that too!
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Sorry, maybe I missed it.
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100% agree. I've lost over 100lbs in the last 2 years, and I've lost a friend over it (who was a member of the full out "obesity positivity" crowd, and thought my losing weight was "conforming to patriarchal norms"...)
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Omg yes. As someone who has had one plastic surgery and plans to have more, I say let people do what will make them feel more confident, healthier, beautiful, etc. I read some ridiculous radfem article saying that when we do these things we undermine other women LOL
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I find the attempts to silence presented as virtuous behaviours a bit of a gaslight. It is a pattern, this inability to receive honest criticism.
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I'm interpreting this differently. I have had friends who lost weight, and were supported by peers and family. Sometimes, their own personal successes morph into this weird brand of activism where they become obsessed with coaching others (mostly unsolicited) re. health/fitness.
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You absolutely have a right to be proud and feel good about your weight loss. But If I click on your social media and EVERY week is a new before and after pic with quotes ripped from a zoloft calendar, I'm going to scrutinize whether your true aim is to inspire others or just to
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bask in a sea of compliments. Right or wrong, I think alot of people feel there's a thin line between being proud and being preachy
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If someone is so insecure about their own weight that they feel the need to silence others who have managed to get even a little more healthy but rather wants the entire world to collude in their pretense that obesity can be healthy...
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You can't win, you get pressure to lose weight by various people, those who hate and those who like you, then when you reach your goal you're the worlds biggest arsehole cos you're apparently encouraging everyone else to lol
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"Obesity positivist" leading to shaming folks for dieting because they want to be health is madness. That being said, people on diets can actually be insufferable. I think it must be neurological, but people on diets obsess, and talk/preach, about food and their diet. A lot!
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Yes, of course. You can do it!
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This was one comment. Honestly, taking what are clearly compliments in such a negative way isn’t going to help in the long run. She’ll go back to bad habits.pic.twitter.com/ATNIp0kraM
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They don't believe intentionally reducing one's body size is something necessarily worthy of support.
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Intrasexual competition / crab bucket mentality.
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No, it can’t. Greta Christina found that out the hard way:http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2010/12/caught-between-fat-and-thin.html …
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So what are your thoughts on the discipline of fat studies? Harmful, valuable both or neither?
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Good God. So many problems would be solved if people would just mind their business!
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