SSUPII

A proudly fat italian. Extremely nerdy. Adamantly fat positive.

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  • Those are truly useless to go against bad actors and is instead only annoying for the humans that read. And good actors with proper licenses won’t be scraping Lemmy, Reddit or Twitter.

    You just cannot prevent it on Lemmy because if an instance places filters like Anubis, another will not. And it is not feasable to mandate every instance to do so. Also, this is an open platform by nature and there is no group or company that can mandate rules of access. As you are limiting non-humans, you might also be limiting real users with peculiar configurations or under heavy privacy middlewares.



  • Guilty of that errors myself.

    That is very much why I want aiming for general health, because this is a global issues not specific to who looks larger. And let’s not forget that people with an amount of fat considered healthy can still be unhealthy. But there is also the large possibility that perfect health just cannot exist in nature in a widespread way. We should always strive for improvements and continue promoting health, but trying to reach perfection to the widespread population will not be possible without extreme dehumanizing measures. I don’t think we as humans have ever been good with that percentage.


  • I was feeling a rush. I reading again it is true you were trying to do that. I apologize sincerily.

    I would go the step further and including not only proper training of medics but also proper teaching in schools. The latter still focusing on general healthly living without attempts to point it to size and proper active corrections since without doing so it would increase stigma even more (where in schools can very easily lead to bullying, and it already happens for the same reason).

    Bullying is also one reason why I believe in normalizing being larger, as I don’t believe it is mutually exclusive to trying to achieve better health for everyone.

    Thanks! But it can be truly stressful when discussing this from my position both online and in real life. Hearing that I am “killing myself” or that I am “killing people” is really hurtful.


  • That is all very good, but I also want a much lesser focus on the obesity itsself. I want a focus on not making people feel they are to be fixed based only of their size and instead looking for what exactly can be improved by promoting the general health of everyone. I want more widespread knowledge on what to do to have an healthy life, and not just aiming it for who has a larger body.

    At the current time it is not uncommon for plus-sized individuals to actively avoid medical assistance due to the very heavy focus on weight as a metric for health, or for medical professionals to refuse care to plus-sized individuals unless it is a weight loss program. It is also not uncommon for “normal-sized” individuals to feel threatened by plus-sized individuals in case “they end up like them”.

    Proper knowledge and respect will go a long way, making both plus-sized and “normal-sized” individuals have less stress on their size and improving the quality of life of everyone.

    I come from a position where I am obese myself and actively want to be so. I feel comfortable in my own skin, and I want to live my life in the body I like while doing what I can to mitigate the known risks. I want me, the objectively not many who feel like me, and who instead wants to be slimmer to have much less sources of stress. It would be much better for the quality of life of everyone.


  • I absolutely am of fat acceptance too, very heavily in fact. And I wasn’t saying the risks are still there, but at the same time I want people to understand that a fat person isn’t stricticly unhealthy because of the many factors involved in one’s health and it is very often ignored.

    Yes, I admit I did. I get EXTREMELY sensitive to this topic, and end up sounding dumb or doing stupid shit despite wanting to make good for myself and others. I am genuinely sorry for doing that, and I want to reconcile and want to have a proper discussion without anyone being attacked. I am truly sorry for trying such a dumb move.











  • Stigmatisation of fat people in the medical industry is a real and extremely dangerous phenomenon that actively harms public health. The registration of obesity as a disease WILL increase the stigma even more and put everyone in even greater risks apart from being completely useless.

    For the rest, this article is very true. The proper steps and objectives indicated help with the health of every human, regardless of body size. The same proper steps help everyone be more healthy regardless if they are maintaining, losing or gaining weight.