I think they overdo the reaction to the extent of cutting people out who lose weight (I've seen it).
I think most people are better off looking at ways to be healthier and happier without worrying about the scale, though. It's the obsession with the weight number rather than life enjoyment that's the most broken part.
There's a lot of media and social imagery discouraging certain body-types as unhealthy simply due to how some people understand or rather misunderstand body weight and the human body in general.
as such, it's ingrained in the culture's consciousness.
Undoing social norms sometimes means stepping into places that for the most part will make people uncomfortable. .
it's not an issue of making people comfortable or uncomfortable, i'm just saying that there's an aspect of the position given by some of these blogs, which i do agree with on several broader points, that irks me somewhat.
And sometimes the process involves people trying on things that turn out to be pretty damn wrong, in an attempt to find the boundaries of reasonable.
If it's wrong to begin with, then changing it to wrong in an attempt to make it right is still better than keeping it wrong under the justification that trying to change it will just make it wrong.
I always thought that making fun of fat people was rooted in class stuff, since only well-off people (at least in the narrative of developed countries) could afford to diet and exercise properly and all that
I want to talk about this, but I'd rather not treat a string of tweets that seem to only be related by that #stopart tag as an essay, and that's how I'd treat it if I tried to talk about it.
I was waiting to see what other people said about it, but then Naney implied it was inherently awful.
Ok, ive been sitting here for 3 hours trying to articulate effectively how mind numbingly awful these tweets are. I find them incredibly repugnant. They literally in real life made me cry for at least half an hour and want to kill myself. They are a baklava of shit, an intricately layered shitpile. I cannot get myself together to respond. they are just that terrible.
I was waiting to see what other people said about it, but then Naney implied it was inherently awful.
Ok, ive been sitting here for 3 hours trying to articulate effectively how mind numbingly awful these tweets are. I find them incredibly repugnant. They literally in real life made me cry for at least half an hour and want to kill myself. They are a baklava of shit, an intricately layered shitpile. I cannot get myself together to respond. they are just that terrible.
I was waiting to see what other people said about it, but then Naney implied it was inherently awful.
Ok, ive been sitting here for 3 hours trying to articulate effectively how mind numbingly awful these tweets are. I find them incredibly repugnant. They literally in real life made me cry for at least half an hour and want to kill myself. They are a baklava of shit, an intricately layered shitpile. I cannot get myself together to respond. they are just that terrible.
Yeah, I apologize for making you go through that.
I'll elaborate on why I disagree with them, if that helps:
I've seen other viewpoints like that, and they just weird me out. They tend to underestimate that the art of white hipsters can be worthy on its own merits, too. Obviously, I tend to identify with that kind of stuff stronger than the kind of stuff they identify with, and that makes me feel kinda implicitly guilty for liking that stuff better.
In fact, stuff like that makes me wonder if it's possible to have any sort of pride in yourself as an artist if you're a white person without people saying you're terrible for it. If that's what made you want to kill yourself, I can understand completely.
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im going back to bed
art is obviously not some wonderful emancipatory universal good and double standards exist in the art world
if the intended message is that funding art workshops is bad, then i don't agree
but healthcare and work (and education) are certainly more useful
but none of the individual observations or remarks, taken at face value, are inherently awful
and often people seem to choose provocative hashtags for the sake of getting noticed
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Ok, ive been sitting here for 3 hours trying to articulate effectively how mind numbingly awful these tweets are. I find them incredibly repugnant. They literally in real life made me cry for at least half an hour and want to kill myself. They are a baklava of shit, an intricately layered shitpile. I cannot get myself together to respond. they are just that terrible.