Fat girls online love to yell about so-called "diet culture" but what and where exactly is it? We live in a society where you can buy 100 chicken nuggets for $10 at Burger King. Where chain restaurants regularly have unlimited fries/shrimp/appetizers. Sodas get free refills by default. The shamrock shake has a cult following. A burger at a restaurant is routinely a third pound or bigger. We're encouraged to eat at movies, sporting events, concerts. Kids meals come with toys. There are over 20 different kinds of Oreos. Buffets exist.
Turn on a TV. How many commercials come on for fast food? How many come on for diets or weight-loss? (Hint: it's only Hydroxycut pills and WeightWatchers commercials that come on sporadically versus over 12 junk food commericals an hour.
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And once you've stuffed your ass to the point where you need to buy new clothes, you needn't worry about shame; everything is now vanity sized. Everything is stretch material (seriously though, why is everything (at least everything women's) mixed with spandex these days?). Every store has a plus sized section. What used to be considered "normal" is now seen as an unattainable body. The obesity rate in the US is 39.8%!
We live in a culture of absolute excess and gluttony. Unhealthy food is everywhere you go: happy hour, networking events, the beach. We eat fucking funnel cake on the beach.
Where is this diet culture? What are they yelling about? Someone please elaborate.
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[–] zaimenellen 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
They are mentally like children,they don't want responsibilities and want attention. They want to be special and recognized by other people and instead of follow the path of truth (self improvement that require sacrifice and discipline to reach some goals or standards) they chose the "easy" way of hamstering (basically rationalize everything in order to feel good in the moment,but they need to hamster constantly because they are not aligned with the real life and real life consequences).
So they invent every posible crap like "diet culture" "patriarchy" "this or that priviledge" and so on. Doing it they just dig more their mental holes and they will never get out in the light.