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[–] Daucus7 0 points 37 points (+37|-0) ago 

Funny, because one of the major reasons why The United States has such a high rate of childbirth fatalities (either for the mother, or for the baby dying) is because the moms are so fucking fat they increase many health risks, and for some this leads to death.

The only reason being mildly overweight (not obese, and certainly not morbidly obese) was ever considered appealing (even then it wasn't as widespread as historian rewriters like to believe) is because it indicated that the woman was wealthy enough that she could afford to eat every day. But in a society where food is cheap and plentiful, there's no value advertising that you overeat. It's like trying to sell sand in a desert.

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[–] jhaluska 0 points 17 points (+17|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Fat women making this argument confuse underweight with being at the upper end of the healthy weight range. Just look 50 years ago what was considered "fat", now imagine going back 300 more years with an even poorer access to food and imagine how thin women were. A woman with a 23 BMI probably was considered "fat" for the medieval era.

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[–] GuntPunt 0 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago 

Exactly, Circus Freak fats from decades ago are considered small fats today.... tells you something. These were people who were such a rarity that you'd actually pay a carnival barker a nickel to see their freakishness (what a time to be alive, if only it was still like this). Now they are are everywhere and fatter and you often have to pay dearly to get away from them.

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[–] Ifardo 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Yes. People were literally starving in the Middle Ages. If your local crops failed, and they often did, they didn't have trains and trucks to bring in food from somewhere else. They certainly didn't have beetus. Skulls from the Middle Ages have very little tooth decay as a result. That all changed as soon as Europeans colonized the Caribbean and started growing sugarcane. By the 17th Century skulls of people rich enough to buy sugar show extensive and at that time unfixable dental problems. Imagine the smell of people whose teeth were literally rotting out from their love of beetus. Source: I am a history nerd.

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[–] mk46gunner 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago 

#fight me

I always love seeing that one. It's a surefire way to get me laughing. What a great start to my lunch break.

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[–] GuntPunt 0 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago 

The funnier thing is #fight me is followed immediately by #don't be mean and #just be nice to everyone.

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[–] Thereturnstudent 0 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago 

Hmmm. A fat-ass woman is now gonna "go full medieval knight on you, and stab you?" So, she's a Trans, medieval dual-gender, BOPO, HAES-loving, child-bearing wench?

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[–] GuntPunt 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Fat Wench-kin

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[–] MadBro 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

I like how she conflates being fat with having a larger frame. Having a gunt doesn't increase the size of your birth canal.

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[–] Wizardslayer 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Once again they confuse fat with curvy. Also, being fat, like really fat, not just a few extra pounds even for the nobility was rare and worth mentioning. That's why you know about the nobles who were fat, because people at the time were like "holy shit. This dude is huge even by noble standards I got to write this shit down, he's a fat fuck." Look at Henry VIII, people talked about him being that fat because it was so unusual. Doubly so because in his younger years he was in tremendous shape until he got hurt hunting.

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[–] 9678871? 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

If you're going medieval, fatty, that means you'll be doing the eyesight of humanity a favor and dying of bubonic plague.

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[–] vegsylvania 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Ah, yes. We all have much to fear from this jealous fat's fighting abilities.

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