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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 6

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Anon Law Nerd

      Yes! Exactly. Just people who are usually American looking to be offended then.https://twitter.com/MajorDenihil/status/993141206761734145 …

      Helen Pluckrose added,

      Anon Law Nerd @MajorDenihil
      Replying to @HPluckrose
      Lunatic is not really abusive in the U.S. either. It's not a medical term. It's not unlike saying you're bonkers. Kind of silly when people connect it to ableism like "you're bipolar."
      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    2. SadCowHat mst‏ @shadowcat_mst May 6
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      I just read the thread. My first thought was "welp, that person was just a loon". Then realised the irony of the phrasing my brain had picked. But, yes, it's a high offence / low defence thing and gives me flashbacks to the tumblr "smallfat" wars.

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    3. SadCowHat mst‏ @shadowcat_mst May 6
      Replying to @shadowcat_mst @HPluckrose

      Aha! I see. You quote tweeted a "don't treat your weight as a personality flaw" thing that was, I think, trying to encourage people with e.g. anorexia to chill and stop undereating, and $loon jumped to a conclusion about you and it went wrong from there.

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 6
      Replying to @shadowcat_mst

      No, it was about overeating.

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    5. SadCowHat mst‏ @shadowcat_mst May 6
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Hm. I read it as trying to tell people "it's ok to not undereat". I think this reading is where the loon started looning from.

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 6
      Replying to @shadowcat_mst

      Then why #fatphobia?

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    7. SadCowHat mst‏ @shadowcat_mst May 6
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Because people believing "if you're not stick thin, you're disgusting" is a serious contributor to anorexia? (I don't mean to sound condescending, I thought this was obvious and am genuinely confused that it wasn't obvious to you)

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 6
      Replying to @shadowcat_mst

      It is obvious to me. I wouldn't disagree with a tweet which said 'If you're not stick thin, you're disgusting.' It didn't tho. 'Your weight is not a character flaw' is a slogan of fat activism & I found it retweeted by fat activists. And it says #Fatphobia

      8:51 AM - 6 May 2018
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        1. SadCowHat mst‏ @shadowcat_mst May 6
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Hrm. I wonder if this is one of those things where "fatphobia" was *originally* describing stuff more like that and then got distorted as it ricocheted around a particular tumblr subculture. And I didn't know that was a slogan - so I'm guessing the loon might not've either.

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