RegularGhost15:
I'm not using strawman, I'm directly responding to things you've said 🤷
There wasn't even any argument in my post, I was just answering your questions...?
I'm not using strawman, I'm directly responding to things you've said 🤷
There wasn't even any argument in my post, I was just answering your questions...?
So, OP was a big name in feedist spaces back in the day. He even had a website called Ask Dr. Feeder where he'd give advice, post challenges, etc. etc. (Iirrc, he took down the site due to hosting costs.) Some of his advice is solid and others ...
I digress.
Anywho, back in the day, he made a list called "How to Get Fat." Towards the bottom of the list, he championed befriending fat people as a good way to get fat. He states that you'll feel better about your gain around fat people versus thin people which has ... some questionable implications.
Here's an archived version of the page so you know I'm not making shit up:
web.archive.org/web/20110312093353/http://askdrfeeder.dyndns.org/htgf.html
As you can see, this page is over a decade long. It's the inverse of popular diet advice at the time which was to befriend thin people to help lose weight.
theguardian.com/news/blog/2007/jul/26/thelatestweig1
This is also incredibly bad advice for the exact same reasons and then some. But no one, as far as I can tell, checked either line of thinking until rather recently. I'm not saying this to excuse what he posted (because really, man?). Instead, I am saying this to get a better understanding of why he had such a bad take.
The 2000s and the 2010s were even more fatphobic than things are today. Diet culture had us thinking that anyone wearing a size M was a land whale. But even back then, real friends treated each other with mutual respect, and most people were not befriending thin people just to lose weight.
Still, feedist spaces were more counter-cultural than they are now, and many people had a reactionary stance on most topics. In the present day, thanks to fat activists' hard work, we have the space to scrutinize some of the more detrimental dogmas in this space.
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