What’s fascinating about the Fat Acceptance and Health at Any Size movements is that no one truly bought that it was possible to be healthy at 400 pounds, or that vying with a tractor-trailer for mass was anything good. Even the people espousing this did not in fact actually believe it — which was obvious if you merely listened to how they talked about it.

These movements born of despair were always designed to be a psy-op, as much to convince themselves than to sway anyone else.

And now it’s all getting torpedoed by semaglutides.

I understand that those twin crusades sprung from people not feeling like they were regarded as fully human. And trust me, I get it. How much differently I’m treated now (particularly by women) that I look like I stepped out of an Avengers film is telling. It is a different world.

But that doesn’t make being the size of shipping container healthy, or change reality in any other way. Alas.

The Cultural Apostate.

I say this as a confirmed grumpy jerk-ass: this guy sounds like real doofball. Just a terrible person to know and to be around. If I’m the death of the party, this dude is the apocalypse of all parties past, future and present.

Cool, dude, it’s great that you don’t like anything at all but a banjo (?) and penning overwrought articles about how very superior you are to anyone who likes anything. I can’t believe I wasted my time reading this turd but I am going to warn everyone else against it, at least: avoid at all costs.

It sucks that he seems to have decided that nothing will be permitted to move him again, that he is apart from the world and that anything that attempts some artfulness is “pandering,” but good god I did not need to read a thousand words about it.

Just go do banjo stuff. You’re not an apostate or an iconoclast. Just an assclown.

What’s even sadder than the “any age gap is rape” and “full-grown women have no agency” pseudofeminists is the men performatively declaring that to them, Sophie Thatcher or Jenna Ortega looks like a mere child. Why, they might not even be women these monk-like men are so very unattracted to them.

Bro, trust me, it’s ok to find some of the most attractive women in the world attractive. Jesus fucking Christ, fucking losers.

My advice is to not get involved in women’s intrasexual competition. It’s not actually aimed at you and only makes you look like a damn idiot.

In discussions like this, why is there always some clown-ass mothefucker barging in to tell us with pseudoscientific jargon that we can’t see what many of us can in fact clearly see?

I can very, very easily distinguish between 2K, 4K and 5K at two feet. I can even tell the difference between 2K and 5K at 5 feet. It’s not even hard. In perfect conditions, I am sure I could do it 8ish feet. In normal viewing conditions, I can read for 30-45 minutes on a 2K/1080p monitor and for 4-5 hours on a 5K monitor. So it makes a huge and measurable fucking difference to me. Also, I don’t get migraines from reading on a 5K monitor nearly as readily as I do from low-res crap.

Just because you have terrible eyesight and don’t mind making it worse doesn’t mean I do or have to.

The Fat Acceptance/Early Death Celebration movement was always extremely harmful clownery.

Glad we’re leaving that canker-infested dipshittery behind.

I wonder which career leads to hating the general public the most quickly?

If I had to guess I’d say retail, followed either by helpdesk or food service. I know that working helpdesk and helpdesk-related roles early in my career caused me to become much more of a misanthrope. How could it not? In that role, you encounter the stupidest people who are proud of being clueless dumbasses all day every day. And they are also often aggressively rude about it.

Were I to go back in time, I would do more to avoid the helldesk as that really is just a sociality killer. I think I’d probably have more friends if I had never done that sort of work as I was quite social comparatively when I came out of the army. After working helldesk for a few years, though, I wanted nearly nothing to do with anyone.

I’ve got some more necessary pushback against the No one should know anything at all about how to do their jobs if it happens to involve a computer in some way mindset.

I’m not arguing that computers aren’t complex. Here I’m just standing against the idea that it should be permissible for someone not to know the name of the application they’ve used for 10+ years and that sort of nonsense.

In reality, someone not being able to recall or have any clue how to use their most commonly-touched tool is more akin to a grounds maintenance crewmember not knowing what a mower is or how to start it up. Look, clowns, we’re not asking people to program an OS from scratch or change BIOS settings. We’re just asking them as a driver to know what a goddamn steering wheel is (to switch to another metaphor).

Though I grew up using computers, I learned the essential control interfaces in a couple of days. They are not hard. I learned what the common applications were I use in a few seconds. And I did that when I was four years old. So if a four-year-old can do it so can you.

None of this is actually difficult. That we pretend like it is to coddle doofuses is just wrong IMO.