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FeministTeaš©š»āšš©šæāāļøš š„¾ Feminist: How Skinny-tok and Fascism ended up on the same FYP
https://feminists.substack.com/p/skinny-tok-fascism-fyp
https://feminists.substack.com/p/skinny-tok-fascism-fyp
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u/Brave-Astronaut-795 Aug 25 '26
Completely ahistorical btw.
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u/Tak-Hendrix Aug 25 '26
Yup. The Nazis discouraged women from being thin because they wanted them to be constantly popping out babies.
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u/NovelConcept6300 Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
Quick fact Hitler was almost entirely vegetarian who viewed killing animals as wrong, and passed some of the strictest animal welfare laws on earth.Ā
The idiotic idea that every single thing the Nazis did was evil and wrong Ā is reactionary. We shouldnāt go back to abusing animals in German because HitlerĀ
Btw the #1 German woman ideal Ā had a full pregnant belly and two kids adoringly staring at her husband on the front.Ā
They encouraged not being glutinous towards rationed supplies, because they were isolated with maritime trade cut off during the two front war with Russia and the west.
I guess They did encourage men to not be incredibly obese, but this was because it would prevent you from being able to fight in war in several ways.Ā
people fighting modern obesity are just trying to save your life, because you will die by 50 if your morbidly obese.
it will also be a shitty unhealthy life of pain and chronic illness once you enter your late 35-40, and if your lucky you will last until 60 when your body shuts down and you die 50 years early.Ā
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u/stonedPict2 Aug 26 '26
Hitler was fine with killing animals, he was a vegetarian because he had gastrointestinal issues and couldn't really digest meat well.
He did pass a lot of animal welfare reforms, but they weren't really that strict by modern standards and a lot of them were made so the Nazis could attack kosher food production. Even the encouragement to eat less meat was more about self-sufficiency of the German economy and a belief that austere diets would make the German people mentally and physically stronger rather than opposition to killing animals.
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u/Personal_Chair6134 Aug 25 '26
The fact that Hitler was a strict vegetarian just underscores the point that being vegetarian does not give you a moral soapbox to stand on.
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u/SheepSheppard Aug 26 '26
Not directly being part of the suffering and mass killing of countless living beings is, morally, more ethical than killing and/or eating feeling animals.
Doesn't mean you're a better person in general and you still can be a bad person overall but if two people are morally average (not volunteering in the soup kitchen but also not punching babies), of course one is better than the other.
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u/DatBoiKage1515 Aug 26 '26
Ummm. Who's going to tell him
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u/SheepSheppard Aug 26 '26
Do you have any arguments or just funny Reddit xd?
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u/DatBoiKage1515 Aug 26 '26
Just saying I'm pretty sure he was involved in a bit of slaughter and suffering
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u/xHail_999 Aug 26 '26
Friend, my mother is 68 and 300 lbs. She's also relatively active. Maybe the key ingredient.Ā Ā
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u/igotchees21 Aug 26 '26
"hey i know 1 person so that means stats dont exist."
thats you, thats how sound.
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u/NovelConcept6300 Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
Yeah and my grandma is 75 and she wakes up with a beer and smokes 2 packs of pall malls a day.Ā
Her son my uncle had aids since the 1980ās he was like 18-20 and doctors gave him 6 months to live, and heās been sent home to die 5 times and each time heās Ā been brought to my dadās house.Ā
We toweled his face, we bent him over to puke, and we feed him my grandmotherās family famous sick broth.Ā
Bone marrow, beef stock, liver and kidney puree all reduced down into a thick gravy with herbs and spices quite delicious and Extremely calorie dense spread overĀ sourdough bread.Ā
He eats the broth and bread we help him get comfortable and rest by the fire and every time he pulls through.Ā
It will soon be 40 years after his diagnosis, and heās still here and working a full job.Ā
He beat a 6 month battle with Covid.Ā
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u/Over_Lake7414 Aug 26 '26
HOLY FUCKING SHIT?!!???
That's...medically...a miracle...??? does he have any neurological complications?
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u/Daniel_Spidey Aug 25 '26
Who would they even use as examples of this trend other than Mussolini and Hitler? Everything about this sounds very stupid.
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u/redefine_happiness Aug 25 '26
Side note, but I really wish people would stop using "hyperfixation" when they really mean "fixation".
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u/IVEBEENBANNED4TIMESx Aug 25 '26
How dare you oppose the gentrification of neurodivergent terms š¤¬
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u/Ok_Boysenberry5849 Aug 25 '26
Fascism was not on the rise in the 90s during the heroin chic era.
What we're seeing now is ozempic, not fascism.
I mean we're also seeing fascism, but that's a different, unrelated problem.
Actually, we should be putting a lot more effort into resisting fascism and less effort into promoting obesity (or into defending anorexia, both are toxic body positivity).
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u/m0j0m0j Aug 25 '26
The entire āhealth and sport is fascismā shtick is lowkey embarrassing. āBeing on time is a white supremacismā school of thought. Or rather, anti-thought.
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u/StandOutside6188 Aug 26 '26
I had one person tell me. "Having to be held accountable for my work is racist". I am still not sure how that relates to the fact that he was jacking off in the customers dining room....
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u/Ok_Boysenberry5849 Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
I think there are useful things to be said about sports practice and ideology / culture. In the first half of the 20th century sports became popular in a context of nationalism and preparation for war. States wanted male populations that were fit for battle, especially in Europe, especially the more warlike nations.
Nowadays however the major sport trend is not team sports, it's "fitness". It's more related to hustle culture, "the grind", self-help books and even the dating scene, than to nationalism. I think it can be read as part of an increase in individualism and loneliness, as opposed to scoutism or team sports which are also social events.
So, yes, it's interesting to think about health and sports trends from a political and cultural perspective, I just don't think the fascism reading really works here.
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u/m0j0m0j Aug 25 '26
Ok, letās update it. āHealth and sport is either fascism, or some m*ney-obsessed lunacyā
Much better now
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u/radical_biscuit Aug 25 '26
Seems thereās a direct correlation with thinness and the increase of Ozempic use.
Not everything is a conspiracy š¤¦š»āāļø
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u/Smelly-Elf Aug 26 '26
Who would have thought that a weight loss drug would make people lose weight?
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u/Alternative_Cycle150 Aug 26 '26
so by that logic, you must think that North Korea (officially Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is actually democratic, right? oh you poor naive child
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u/MmeScutigere Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
This is questionable history tbh. Fascists generally wanted women to look fertile, submissive, and uniform. They didn't like the skinny, androgynous look that became popular in the 1920s because they wanted women to be used as baby factories if they were the right kind of woman and to be dead if they were the wrong kind of women.
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u/TheMaskOffKid Aug 25 '26
Well the original fascists were Italians, of course they liked thick bitches
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u/Money_Statement_9861 Aug 25 '26
The current flavor of fascism is contradicts itself in this manner because it swings wildly on the line between classic fascism and reality TV show business fascism.
They also want women to pop out (white) babies but at the same time you have idiots destroying their bodies with weird health conspiracies like antivax, mar a lago face plastic surgery addiction, etc.
Maha has signs of both because they want to raise sperm count in men and other stuff to make more babies but at the same time they are doing raw milk and weird health conspiracy theories.
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u/OKiPULLUP123455 Aug 25 '26
Being healthy is racist now
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u/Sea_Impress_2620 Aug 26 '26
If having strong and natural bodies was the ideal I would agree. But this current ozempic chic is not healthy. Being dangerously thin and fragile can cause infertility, heart issues, messed up periods and osteoporosis for women.
And as a woman who lifts, it is shocking how physically weak extremely thin women are. They couldn't carry grocery bags, couldn't do single push up, their arms looked like I could snap them in half. It was always these extremely skinny friends who got harrassed the most when we went out, and they were often terrified men. I was harrassed too, but I was able to defend myself and those friends.
I have never, ever in my life wished I was less strong. Sure some clothes don't really fit me, but I would always choose to be stronger than my current self than weaker. Being somewhat strong is so conventient and makes life less scary. So every time being small and weak is trendy for women, it makes me think who benefits for women being weak, submissive and not having career or education. And answers is loser men who want a woman who can't leave them. And what political stance does men like that have? Right wing, almost always.
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u/Cheshire-Cad Aug 25 '26
On the one hand, this sounds pretty kooky.
On the other hand, fascism has the bad habit of turning even the most deranged social conspiracy into reality. Those twats had germaphobia against melanin in their drinking fountains. Nothing is off the table for them.
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u/Gojira085 Aug 25 '26
It is kooky. Or at the very least cherry picking regimes. The historical socialist dictatorships of the last century also had health and wellness movement along the exact same lines Nazi Germany did
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u/TimeRisk2059 Aug 25 '26
It should be pointed out that the nazi focus on public health was appropriated from the socialists. The socialists wanted people to be healthy, both through public healthcare and people taking care of themselves. While the nazis appropriated the idea, and mutated it for their own purposes, where men should be healthy warriors and women should be healthy housewives who give birth to plenty of "aryan" children. We've seen a return of these ideas in recent decades, with neo-nazi "activeclubs" and the "trad-wife" ideal.
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u/Alternative_Cycle150 Aug 26 '26
"The socialists wanted people to be healthy, both through public healthcare and people taking care of themselves"
i mean not to say that the socialists didn't indeed want that, but, like... doesn't EVERYONE? to paint this as an explicitly socialist idea seems a bit far-fetched to me
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u/TimeRisk2059 Aug 26 '26
No, the nazis only wanted the "aryans" to be fit and healthy; the conservatives didn't care about regular people; the liberals wanted some money to be spent on helping the poor.
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u/Mysterious_Point9516 Aug 26 '26
"Men should be warriors and women should be healthy to have children" has been the Human Default for all of human existence.
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u/TimeRisk2059 Aug 26 '26
Nope, we don't have warriors until settlements grew forth. For most of human existance we've been egalitarian semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers.
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u/Mysterious_Point9516 Aug 26 '26
First of all, the idea that we had no inter-band conflict is ridiculous and patently wrong. Second, women trapped and men hunted for a reason.
Let's not use historical revisionism to paint a picture of biological evolution that never happened.
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u/TimeRisk2059 Aug 26 '26
Warriors are a social strata that did not exist when we were hunter-gatherers, just because people came into conflict doesn't automatically make them warriors, anymore than two people fighting in a bar become soldiers.
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u/Mysterious_Point9516 Aug 26 '26
You're confusing pedantry for a display of knowledge.
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u/TimeRisk2059 Aug 26 '26
And you confuse opinion for knowledge.
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u/Mysterious_Point9516 Aug 27 '26
You're pretending men didn't, and don't, engage in risk taking behaviors more than women because you're trying to push a modern narrative of equality that did not exist.
You should perhaps do some real research instead of smugly reading feminist reinterpretations of mythology and pretending you're getting the true story.
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u/TimeRisk2059 Aug 27 '26
You keep moving the goalposts, we went from warrior castes to hunters and now you're talking about "risk taking behaviours".
I have studied both history and archaeology for years, so I put my knowledge on the topic above what you find in youtube videos.
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u/LoathsomeCheeseEater Aug 25 '26
This has to be some kind of elaborate ragebait. There's no way the body positivity movement has descended this far into psychosis.
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u/Syresiv Aug 25 '26
I talked to one who said that obesity itself has no negative health impacts and everything that seems to be causes by it is actually down to social stigma.
I wouldn't put it past them.
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u/Daniel_The_Thinker Aug 27 '26
The consequences of "everything is a social construct"
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u/Syresiv Aug 27 '26
Many things are to be fair. The cardiovascular consequences of obesity aren't socially constructed, but the stigma and scorn (which don't hit similarly unhealthy lifestyles equally) very much are.
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u/Daniel_The_Thinker Aug 27 '26
Of course but people these days are far too interested in rationalizing their impulses rather than confronting reality.
What you say is true though, obesity is just one form of unhealthiness that is scrutinized more due to its visibility.
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u/Lost_Department_2177 Aug 24 '26
They want women to be skinny so they have bodies like underage girls and boys.
Also explains the waxing and armpit shaving. Narcissists are lame but theyāll make themselves seem more desirable so their victim jumps through hoops to stay on their good side
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u/Organic-Spread-8494 Aug 25 '26
Body positivity movement canāt go a moment without casting aspersions at people of thinner body types
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u/Lost_Department_2177 Aug 25 '26
No itās just that a lot of republicans are just deeply messed up people with no real opinions outside of pain worship and being a loser. Some are great but few and far between.
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u/Stampy77 Aug 25 '26
The shit people say because they can't say no to another slice of cake lol.Ā
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u/gladchadstone Aug 25 '26
They really are just reaching for absolutely anything to get angry at aren't they
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u/EntrepreneurMean639 Aug 25 '26
"Everything I don't like is because of fascism" I really don't think most of the people online today have any clue what fascism really is.
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u/Greedy_Birthday_3494 Aug 25 '26
just a general lack of critical thinking skills, If we were pointed against another target, we would replace fascism with that instead.
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u/BP3D Aug 25 '26
I think they are bots and throwing āfascismā at random things produces engagement.Ā
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u/superMegaDudeBroDude Aug 25 '26
Currently living under a fascist United States president. Currently seeing eating disorders and an over abundance of āthinnessā in media and celebrity news. Not that hard to see how people make conclusions even if they are directly correlated
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u/Hotpruny Aug 25 '26
You are not living in a facist united states brochacho š
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u/AcrobaticPoint8424 Aug 26 '26
As a fascist I can assure you that the goyslave diet Reagan is not a fascist.
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u/LocationHelpful6711 Aug 25 '26
The hyperfixation with women being stick āthinā is mostly a product of the fashion industry, which is overwhelmingly owned and consumed by other women and gay men. Are you suggesting these groups are āfascistā?
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u/Haunting-Watch8240 Aug 25 '26
Idiocy from the feminists, as per usual. Never before were people so fat as they are today. Going back down in weight through being mindful of what you eat is one of the easiest wins in modern times for the masses (pun intended).
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u/sadistica23 Aug 26 '26
Before the modern era, being fat was a symbol of wealth and privilege. The overwhelming majority of people simply could not afford to eat enough consistently to be fat.
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u/Haunting-Watch8240 Aug 26 '26
And in many places on Earth, the ability to be fat remains a privilege to this day. Westerners and Chinese are very much privileged people, don't misunderstand that. But now that you and I can be fat, perhaps we ought to consider the implications of that, delivered to us by the way of the scientific method. Overall dumb, it is a privilege we ought not to excercise, just as drinking out of a toilet bowl is a privilege compared to those without one.
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u/Medical_Initial6518 Aug 26 '26
When was that the case? For most of our history, the ideal aristocratic figure was not that different from the ideal labourer's figure. The aristocracy has always been obsessed with martial virtue. This is a cheap folk-fact and it is a lazy defense of obesity. I would call fatness in those times a sign of wealth and privilege, but certainly not a symbol. A symbol is idealized.
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u/McENEN Aug 26 '26
It was the case for centuries. There is evidence of it from China in year 650 and renaissance Europe. I would leave a source but this is the most googleable fact you can check yourself in 30 secs.
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u/Medical_Initial6518 Aug 27 '26
An evasion. Show me.
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u/Haunting-Watch8240 Aug 27 '26
And that is why all the statues from the time are rotund and all the portraits of rich people represent fat slobs? Oh wait, no...
Come on, it was the rich old men who could get away with such a cheap excuse, but in youth they were lean and trained warriors, and expected their sons to be the fit as well. Similar goes for the ladies. Their revealed preference is fitness.
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u/McENEN Aug 27 '26
Statues were most commonly made before being fat became popular. It became a sign of wealth in Europe kinda around the same period gunpowder was developed and being a strong warrior was less important for the battlefield.
You can use all the logic you want but the fact is multiple historians agree that being fat was a status symbol across the merchant class and nobility.
Here is a research paper on it: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358982150_Historical_and_cultural_aspects_of_obesity_From_a_symbol_of_wealth_and_prosperity_to_the_epidemic_of_the_21st_century
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u/Haunting-Watch8240 Aug 27 '26
"Don't listen to logic and reason, listen to these people who every day get revealed as bigger and bigger liars". Don't think I will, mate.
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u/McENEN Aug 27 '26
Dont listen to experts that study for years and decades of work experience as historians but listen to yourself with a impulsive hunch that there is no way it can be wrong because you really thought about it and you are really smart.
At least leave some fact that supports your point slightly. I personally choose experts with evidence over some reddit dude with a thought
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u/davidliterally1984 Aug 26 '26
When? I mean, you gotta give examples of fascist regimes that put a greater emphasis on thinness than previous governments. For the current day, we already have an explanation. Namely that a company halfway across the globe created a drug that makes you skinny.
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u/Necessary-Paint117 Aug 26 '26
This feels like trying to shame people for not being fat. What we're seeing is more usage of GLP-1s. I don't think this is a fascist plot.
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u/Designer_Version1449 Aug 25 '26
I feel like i just got sent to a different dimension wtf is this post lmfaooo
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u/Bunnygirlfailure Aug 24 '26
As someone who has seen and read studies about how fat shaming effects people ya this is no surprise
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u/SwevenlyOly Aug 25 '26
"We agreed to share our iWatch rings for accountability, missy. You have not hit your 10,000 goose-step target for three days now!"
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u/After_Ad9425 Aug 25 '26
Ehhhh. Even if the statistics are true correlation is not causation.
Now I do agree that the recent Epstein cabal fuckers have done all that they can to push unrealistic beauty standards and that we should be of aware of that and be generally more body positive. But I donāt think that this is necessary an intrinsic property of fascism itself, even if it is a product of our current fascism.
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u/Rad_Dad6969 Aug 25 '26
I remember like 5 years ago tom segura pointing out that rich people never let go of the ultra-skinny women trend like the rest of us. Since then i have been noticing it whenever rich folks parade about. Just a bunch of rail thin women in fancy clothes. You can tell they view a voluptuous woman as unseemly.
I think its mostly racism and not wanting to like something they have associated with black people. Even though they definitely do like a women with curves, they just dont want to be seen with one.
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u/Meinteil2123 Aug 25 '26
I noticed how the fat acceptance movement just disappeared once ozempic was available....that and the fact that they usually end up dying early.
But ya know, healthy at every size right?
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u/ycpaa Aug 25 '26
It hasn't disappeared, it just hasn't been in the popular discourse recently. The types of hateful ghouls whose entire philosophy revolves around oppression don't need to recruit useful dupes to aggressively discredit it right now - they've already built up a considerable contigent of you.
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u/IVEBEENBANNED4TIMESx Aug 25 '26
I guess it makes sense for fascism, if the fascists believe that women with less body fat can contribute more to the nation
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u/Full-Somewhere440 Aug 25 '26
Being thin is back because people like it. Because extraordinary in physical appearance is just one part of being a model or music star. Especially for women.
Additionally the ozempic era is upon us, being fat, if you are well to do, is basically a choice now. No crazy surgery required. Take your pill, get skinny. I think glp1 kicked it off more than anything.
America feels exactly the same politically as it always has. It just comes in faster waves. Tik tok mobilizes people quickly. But, we only care about the new thing. Not real issues, otherwise we would be burning down our cities due to wealth disparity.
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u/Petandfeelya69 Aug 25 '26
This is why liberals keep losing elections. Be fucking normal Jesus Christ
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u/Used-Sound3141 Aug 25 '26
This is dumb. I'm thin because things are so expensive that I'm eating less food. Things are expensive because we strayed far away from anything resembling nationalism or "fascism", whatever you think that actually means. The pendulum swings, weight gain catches up later.
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u/Feesh404 Aug 25 '26
Arguably 'im thin because I can't afford food living in a fascist regime" tracks way better than the half schizo shit this post is saying.
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u/ARMBELL Aug 25 '26
Okay so there was a preference towards thinness in the 90s and now itās all about being āthiccā. The 90s are more fascist than being under Chrump?
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u/Re-Napoleon Aug 26 '26
ANYTHING to avoid a diet bro
Not to mention the nazis did NOT have an obsession with 'thin'
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u/StandOutside6188 Aug 26 '26
I thought it was a two fold issue...one was ozempic became a thing or the popular fat influencers died..one or the other.
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u/yourhair_lookssmall Aug 26 '26
Oh, the comments really don't see that beauty standards are getting stricter? Like, yes we should all aim to be healthier but health isn't what we're talking about, it's thinness. As in brittle bones and feeding tubes, not just hitting the gym.
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u/Relatovely Aug 26 '26
These same guys who have been mocking Ariana grande and posting memes about super skinny Jenna Ortega suddenly can't think of examples of unhealthy standards of thinness.
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u/Roffotron Aug 26 '26
I'll almost certainly get downvoted for this - but by that definition...we must have been living in a fascist society given how much attention there was to having women be as thin as possible (at least in the western world). I'd also point out that (and I may as well be following Godwin's Law here) - the Nazi ideal was for a woman to have a figure with prominent child-bearing hips so as to proliferate what they viewed to be the "perfect" race.
Though there is a point about how Fascism leads to heightened control over women and a decline over their autonomy.
I will now await for the downvotes to wash over me.
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u/Middle_Ad1126 Aug 26 '26
Itās ozepic, Ā big pharma is pushing it so that they can get a massive payday. Ā This is beauty trend that comes around every soĀ Many years, having said that. This does not mean being as thin as a rail is more attractive then curves. Honestly, its preferences. If people want to buy into the GLP-1 weight loss let them. Society as a whole has to stop constantly look at what others have and donāt have. This crap will make you feel bad about yourself, Iāve lived through the 90s thin, the 00s thin and now this craze. Iāve always been chubby and honestly Iām okay with it. Iām. It going to allow ābeauty standardsā to cause mental health issues or to even bother me. Right now itās a thin movement . A year from now it could curvier figures. Just give it a rest and stop looking for reasons to get upset. Tell your children, this doesnāt matter and build confidence.
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u/1_LedJack Aug 26 '26
If oneās not concerned with accuracy itās possible to connect fascism with anything, thatās the lesson here.
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u/Arthurian_Guanche Aug 26 '26
The film "Triumph of the will" featured a classical glorification of male and female athleticism. Therefore, fitness is fascistic.
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u/DoktaZaius Aug 26 '26
I think these women just confuse people trying to make them take up less space, with people trying to make all women take up less space
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u/Advanced_Pie_6490 Aug 27 '26
Honestly this has to be the biggest load of absolute garbage I have ever heard. Spin the wheel of bullshit this week and see what weāre getting offended and oppressed by this week ššš
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u/Sea_Skin8973 Aug 27 '26
My hot take is that attractive women like the one in the OP's meme subconsciously push the underlying message of "it''s okay to be fat" because it helps to "thin" the herd in terms of sexual marketplace competition. That woman is not fat. She's telling the fatsos out there to feel okay about being fat, because that makes her more attractive in comparison.
We've heard variations of the "it's okay to be fat" message being targeted towards women for decades now, well before the rise of the contemporary fascist revival (which should hopefully dissipate in time) and it's often dressed up in the language of whatever the "progressive/feminist topic du jour" is at that particular moment in history.
It's all a clever ruse by the Sexually Attractive Women cohort to look like solidarity for other women, while tacitly encouraging them to stay fat to avoid additional competition. Remember, all these ladies are competing for the same incredibly small percentage of the male population, the 6,6,6 guys.
So, in short, this lady is full of hot air, and it's not a hot take at all.
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u/Both_Hope5717 Aug 27 '26
This is some Grade A brainrot. My god people, just go for a walk every now and then and stop overfeeding yourselves. It's not a fascist plot.
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u/headcodered Aug 28 '26
Look, I'm a big ol' wokey woke who can acknowledge systemic and historical contexts of social issues, but some of these connections are ridiculous and not historically true. While I personally prefer my partners to have a little bit of thickness, being attracted to someone who is in good shape is extremely normal and natural from a biological perspective and it's a pretty big stretch to act like that's because of fascism or p***philia. There's definitely unrealistic standards we're fed, but it's getting pretty ridiculous the extent to which adult women are being infantilized by each other lately. Being attracted to a skinny person isn't p***philia, there are countless skinny adults. Being attracted to a short person isn't p***philia, there are countless adults who are short. I saw a 35 year old get called a p*do for dating a 28 year old, but a 28 year old woman is fully matured and old enough to make her own choices.
"The only women you should be attracted to are overweight average-height-or-above women unless you're a fascist or p*do" nonsense is getting old and is downright disrespectful to the premise that all body types can be beautiful and attractive.
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u/ProfessionalOwn9435 Aug 25 '26
During WW2 women ware a bit skinny and it was absolutly time of fascism.
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u/Tak-Hendrix Aug 25 '26
You were downvoted, but the Nazis actually did discourage women from being thin because they wanted them to be baby factories.
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u/Tak-Hendrix Aug 25 '26
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
And Nazis actually discouraged German women from being thin because they were expected to be baby factories.
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u/ChamplooStu Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26
This is an interesting angle that I have never examined, forgive my privilege.
I'll have a dive into the subject.
Any academic studies on the subject, do you know, that you recommend?
Genuinely unsure why I've been downvoted (I mean, I can guess) but I stand by every word above.
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u/VenomousMen Aug 25 '26
Donāt worry about it, itās based on nothing but the fact that glp1 and trump are temporally correlated and so the modern increase in fascism must also mean that having preferences towards athleticism makes you a gay pedophile. Everyone has to be into morbid obesity and tall women because fake feminism reasons. I give it about 2 weeks before the rhetoric devolves to if youāve a bmi below 32 then your romantic partners are all pedophiles. It doesnāt take long for fake body positivity to turn into skinny body shaming.
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u/ChamplooStu Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
Icky.
Edit.. just to expand on this.
Unserious and bitter comments that lack curiosity are uninteresting.
If you have something to actually say on the situation, rather than barking buzzwords and overhead narratives, I'll be here.
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u/clickclackyisbacky Aug 25 '26
Lol. Everything is fascism.
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u/LabratHeartattack Aug 25 '26
Not everything, but much of the current trend in right-wing western politics is no less than tangentially connected to fascist politics.
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u/clickclackyisbacky Aug 25 '26
Sure. I agree. But "no less than tangentially" is all but the lowest you can set the bar.
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u/joker6396 Aug 24 '26
What? Thin obsessions have existed for decades, centuries even. There is no correlation here at all. Its resurgence is probably a coincedence. Still a tonne of content out there promoting healthy diets and excercise. Which is about being fit and healthy as opposed to just "skinny"
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u/SalmonPrince Aug 24 '26
Thinness happens naturally when people begin to starve, too. It all tracks.