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OIC and the uh body condition of most of the people at the Golden Globes shows that the fat acceptance movement was all a scam. Ah, I hate the fat acceptance movement. The moment that you had an easy root out of being overweight, body positivity went out of the window. That's so true because they're such hypocrites, they're such pieces of [ __ ]. And this whole thing has always enraged me more than anything. I think, I think because of the fact that I've struggled with it, and I had to deal with the fact that I hate, hated the way I felt or looked, or, you know, you hate that your genetics are the way they are, whatever it is.
But I also, I also think part of it is just being a guy. And that, like, guys talk to each other differently. Like, you know, I've played sports and you just get used to someone being like, "Okay, fat ass," and you're just like, "[ __ ] you." You know, that's just like the way dudes talk to each other. And this whole idea that like, one of my friends is going to be like, "I actually think you, you look really good at any weight." It's like, "[ __ ] off." Like, that's not true.
And that's what people started to do. Like, I remember this one post where it was like Adele, and they showed her like at her heaviest, and then she'd lost a bunch of weight. I don't know how she lost the weight, but she lost a bunch of weight. I think she looked great. OIC is, I think it was too, and she looked great. And it was just filled, everything was just filled with, "I think she looks great in both." And it's like, "No, don't. Why are you saying that? That's not true." Like, she looks great now. She put in the work, and she obviously ate a certain way and trained, and she looked, and now she looks great. Like, you can say that. Like, yeah, yeah, she wasn't ugly before, but no, both look, both are wonderful. It's like, this is, this is just nonsense.
It's weird with what people are doing, especially with the fat acceptance, body positivity thing. Like, you don't want to [ __ ] lambast or castigate or be mean to people that are overweight and that are trying. But also, removing any sort of judgment on what is better or worse for you, just that's bad for them. But yeah, there's this idea from Isaiah Berlin called the Inner Citadel. And it's basically, if you can't get what you want, you have to teach yourself to want what you can get. So you sort of retreat into this. So, um, "I struggle to make monogamous relationships work, therefore monogamy is a flawed system and everyone should be polyamorous." "I struggle to lose weight naturally, therefore weight has no bearing on health and the entire world needs to accept me at any size." "Need to be beautiful no matter what." "I struggle to hold down a job, therefore I'm turning to a life of crime." And actually, this is like, just as acceptable as a normal. It's, it's, it's all, it's, it's completely disingenuous and it's all about a lack of accountability.
And I think that's the thing about, like, when you talk about body positivity, it's like, yeah, you don't need to rip people apart who are not, um, you know, that are overweight or whatever. It's like, I don't know, I don't think that's very productive for them. It's just going to, very few people are passive-aggressed or patronized into behavior. Yeah, for sure. But to say like, "This is great." And, you know, and then now people are also doing the same mental gymnastics with the, the term healthy. Like, what is healthy? It's like, you know what the [ __ ] healthy means, stupid. Like, it's not, I'm not making up this word. And they're like, "Well, who is to say what is healthy?" Well, we actually have a pretty good idea of what is healthy. So if your cholesterol is [ __ ] 600, you're not healthy. Like, why are we pretending? But people want you to go, "Yeah, but like, I can't believe a doctor is going to tell me if I'm healthy." You're like, "That's the job, stupid. Like, that's what he's supposed to do." They're, they're telling you that this is not good. And we all know that if you're carrying that much weight, talking about like 350, 400, and then the idea that like, that's okay, you know, it's not.
Did you see that uh rapper who was disallowed from getting into a Lyft car and she's now suing Lyft? Yeah, let's also, let's, the rapper is like, let's, I know that she claims to be. Let's not give her too much credit. I don't, I don't think she's signed to a label. But yeah, I did. Person who raps. I identify as a person who raps. A person who raps who is a, I believe the thing said she was 392, which is like, not a lot of scales giving you that. Um, I don't know if they went over to the truck stop and figured it out, but she is enormous. And a driver was like, "Yeah, don't get in here." I think he was worried about his tires. Yeah, he's probably thinking about suspension, rear axle, and was like, "No." And now they're like, "Was just shooting for discrimination." It's like, maybe the guy has a, a point that he has an older car. That could, imagine. I don't know whether this is right, but imagine that she'd got in the car and there'd been some sort of an accident due to that. I, I don't know. I mean, it's 400 pounds. Like, surely you could have like two or three other people in the car. Seems unless it's because it's all in one space. I don't know. Anyway, I think it's a, it's an interesting one. But also, I guess on the flip side of that, this I realized a while ago that people who were fat had a problem with Ozempic because it was sort of denying their right to exist. And it was this, yeah. But then there was a bunch of people that were in shape that had a problem with it too because it, it gave people who didn't need to use as much hard work and willpower an easier route to being in shape. I'm aware that losing fat isn't being in shape because there's muscle tone, but you look at half-size 50 to you go, yeah, they're more at least with clothes on. Yeah. And, uh, yeah, it's everybody is threatened in one form or another by shortcuts. Everybody is. Yeah, yeah. Because the reason that you look at someone who's in shape and you go, "Wow, that's, I really, that, that's good." There's, I feel some sort of sense of like warmth and trustworthiness because it's a reliable signal of what they've done to have to get there. Whereas now you just think, "Hey, are, are you hardworking and consistent, or have you got a prescription for Ozempic?" Yeah, exactly. Yeah. That is what that is a thing that people do. And it's like, especially you see, um, somebody who has never done anything before, and then they drop weight, and then they go, "Yeah, you do you, you do you." You kind of look at them like, "Oh, you did the cheat code." And then you, you kind of dismiss them as a person. You just go like, "Oh, you're a, you're a shortcut person." Which I understand. I mean, that's, yeah.
And now it's an unfalsifiable. It's losing weight either naturally or with assistance is the getting jacked naturally or with assistance for dudes, like it's just an totally like unprovable hypothesis. The crazy thing about this getting jacked thing though, is like people don't know how. Even the people that are in Hollywood that they go, "Well, that person's not on it." They're on it too. I've, I know so many people who are geared out of their minds. And even ones who you go, "Well, this person had had a naturally lean aesthetic before." And so it's, it's believable that like, "No, they're on, they're on it too." They're all on it. They just never want to talk about it. Uh, it's almost like the, the most, uh, taboo thing you can bring up for some of these guys, even though it's like so obvious and out in the open, especially for people that like are around fitness in in the gym, like you just know, like there's just tells, you just know. But they don't want to be seen. They don't want the perception to be that they took a shortcut or that they, that'll change. People are coming out online fitness influences and stuff like that. It would be great. I mean, for some reason, the last place where they're not doing it is Hollywood, which is like, it's all [ __ ] anyways, right? It's all fugazi. It's all people are wearing makeup, they've got special lighting, it's all [ __ ]. But none of them want to talk about it. And it's pervasive. It's, it's, it's so incredible how many are doing it.
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