I desperately need people to understand how serious this is and the comments of “people should let her know she’s not ‘fat’ and fast!” as if that’s the real issue or even remotely helpful….
One: You aren’t her. You don’t know what the reality of the ED source is or why or how her mind is handling it. Only she can find the right way to navigate it.
Two: I can tell you from my own experience how sucky it is to manage an ED when navigating muscle volume, weight loss, mass gain etc etc all in the same breath. ESPECIALLY when dysphoria rears its ugly head. I feel for her, and I hope she can find a path with peace along the way.
Navigating ED when tied to body perception issues or even just generally on ALL ends is difficult and I am one hundred percent supportive of those trying to navigate it in all healthy ways.
A 46-year-old man died working in an Amazon warehouse in Oregon.
And workers were told to ignore the body and just keep working.
This is why people are burning shit down. The system doesn’t care whether we live or die. The only thing it cares about is exploiting us for profit.
There is a mythology the U.S. built around the American War in Vietnam. It goes like this:
Young idealistic soldiers were sent into an unwinnable situation by confused politicians.
They came home broken and unappreciated.
It was a tragedy. A mistake. A lesson learned.
Notice what that story does.
It centers Americans.
Their trauma. Their confusion. Their homecoming. Their feelings.
In this story, the Vietnamese people are a backdrop.
A jungle. An obstacle. An abstraction.
Three million dead Vietnamese people are the scenery for a story about American self-discovery.
They made hundreds of movies about Vietnam.
The Deer Hunter. Apocalypse Now. Platoon. Full Metal Jacket. Born on the Fourth of July. Hamburger Hill.
Count how many of them center a Vietnamese character with a full human life, a family, a name you remember after the credits roll.
They turned our genocide into their coming-of-age story.
They lost the war and still managed to make themselves the main character.
And then, with extraordinary arrogance, they put their soldiers' names on a wall in Washington and call it a memorial, as if the dead to be mourned were the people who flew 10,000 miles to do the killing.
Where is the wall for our three million?
There isn't one.
Because in their telling, we were never quite real enough to mourn.
@RexProfessor Being able to recommend that people who haven't experienced these games play the actual physical media would be fantastic, but I just can't with the current prices.
I'm so glad I liked twilight when I was younger because Robert and Kristen have had some great films since and I couldn't imagine not seeing them because of thinking "ew twilight"
"empathy is a made up new age term that does a lot of damage" - Charlie Kirk.
The man can rest in piss, he was a disgusting racist, sexist, homo/transphobic, genocide supporting piece of shit.
The death of Charlie Kirk today is deeply distressing. There is no space for political violence in any democracy. My thoughts, and those of all Australians, are with his family and loved ones.