so many social justicey arguments really do seem like they were invented in a lab to be a saw trap for people with obsessive compulsive tendencies
one of the examples i was thinking of is the idea you are Morally Obligated to tag any potential triggers, despite that being a category that theoretically includes literally everything. maybe the implication/way most people interpret it is “if you have a decent following, its best practice to tag common ones plus requests from followers” but i dont think it should be difficult to understand why trying to figure out which ones people will get mad at you about is a saw trap. esp on platforms more like twitter where providing content warnings in the first place is a logistical nightmare
Op’s tags:
[Image Description: A tag reading: #pro-tip: if your only call to action is ‘you should feel guilty about this’ youre not fixing anything youre just creating saw traps / End ID]
‘fun’ fact: you can starve to death and be fat the entire time. this piece of information saved my life, so i’d like to share it as widely as possible.
there’s a common misconception that starvation will necessarily make you emaciated, and that if someone is fat they must be getting enough to eat, or an excessive amount.
this just isn’t true. fat is an organ, not an inert storage of 'excess’ calories. the old idea that gaining weight is caused by taking in more calories than your body needs, and its corollary that reducing caloric intake will automatically result in weight loss, is simply not true. the human metabolism is just way more complex than that.
one thing that can commonly happen is that, faced with repeated or long term caloric deficit, the body chooses to prioritize fat accumulation over other things in hopes of assuring survival. this can occur due to food insecurity, eating disorders, illness, dieting, or other factors.
caloric deficit can sometimes cause weight loss, certainly. but not in everyone, and not in the long term. 95% of dieters, for example, regain the lost weight and often more in addition. the science overwhelmingly supports this, including studies created by people who were trying to find long term weight loss methods. intentional weight loss is impossible in the long term in most cases, and the methods people use to attempt it are harmful to their health.
so yeah. whether due to anorexia, food insecurity, illness, or anything else - a person can be starving and still fat. or become fat(ter) due to repeated or ongoing caloric deficit, or both.
you can be fat and need a feeding tube, though medical fatphobia often makes medical professionals insist otherwise, to fat people’s detriment or death. people can starve to death while fat.
@humanbeanisnotamused raised an excellent point in their tags, which I’m not going to copy directly because I’m on mobile. they basically asked why does the body preferentially put on fat when it feels threatened by starvation, if the fat is not actually going to serve as a store you can draw on when starving?
so basically, you definitely can and do draw on fat to burn when you’re starving. so having more fat MIGHT mean you survive starvation longer, so it makes sense for the body to grow the fat organ in response to the threat of starvation
BUT. the body doesn’t burn the fat BEFORE moving on to other parts. it happens simultaneously. so you’re burning fat while you starve, yes, but also muscles (including the heart!) and other organs. the brain for instance requires like 20% of your body’s energy.
so, having more fat might buy you some time in terms of DYING from starvation, since there’s more to burn in ADDITION to muscles and vital organs. but in a calorie deficit you will still sustain damage, some of it irreversible, to various body systems, and you can still die of starvation before exhausting the fat supply (ie becoming thin).
does that make sense?
There’s also malnutrition as well! I got really sick a year or so ago because I wasn’t getting enough protein over a long period. I could get calories but they were coming from sugar because I could only have liquids or stuff that melted down to liquid which is mainly sugar. Not having enough protein made me listless, weaker, and sped up the rate of decline from my degenerative disease. I was able to maintain my weight (and I’m fat) so nobody was concerned about my nutrition until family brought it up as a possibility.
Now, I use ensure and other nutrition shakes to keep proper nutrition while I can’t eat solids. (Other people may need feeding tubes like OP or TPN where nutrition goes into veins and bypasses your digestive system entirely)
Defamation lawsuits in UK are heavily weighted in *favor* of the plaintiff. You have to have a pretty weak case to lose over there. If there wasn’t a rabbid, inescapable social media campaign against Amber Heard, he would have lost in America too.
