• Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 days ago

    That’s your interpretation. The context is getting large boobs in a year of hormone therapy. The other person said that the typical 4chaner edgelord is overweight and thus shouldn’t be so hard to get bigger boobs in a year.

    The devaluating part of the term is “edgelord”, not “overweight”, you are for some reason bringing fat shaming into the convo when it’s about edgelord shaming of overweight people.

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      8 days ago

      “Overweight” is a fat-shaming term in itself and it is loaded with social stigma and devaluation…

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        8 days ago

        Overweight is descriptive of people that are over the healthy weight/fat in body range. It is proven that being over the healthy range has increased risks of having health complications.

        I am overweight. If you have over 25% of fat in body, you are overweight. If you have over 30, you are obese. I am obese right now. Working on it.

        If you want to load stigma into terms you do you, but I am not.

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          7 days ago

          This is not true. It isn’t any prove that people that weigh more than the “healthy” range are less healthy. That is just more stigma against fat people. Obesity as a concept is deeply intervowen with stigma.

          I can recommend the podcast “Maintenance Phase”, where the hosts tackle these misconceptions and the stigma with deep dives into the actual research. Most of the debate about health is just bullshit and more about normativity and power than it is about health.

      • OopsOverbombing@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        Overweight is an adjective. It is absolutely not a fat shaming term. As a former fat kid I can attest there are far worse terms than being called “overweight” and I’m genuinely curious why you have such an issue with a non-issue word?