A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, and outlets like Evie, are convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldview

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Nothing bad about being thin tbh. Men should strive for that as well. Obesity is unhealthy.

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Nothing bad about being thin tbh.

Agreed. There is nothing wrong about being thin.

Men should strive for that as well. Obesity is unhealthy.

No, thinness in and of itself isn’t something to pursue other than for vanity. A person isn’t made any healthier by magically becoming thin. I’ve seen that with my own eyes, knowing someone who has had bariatric surgery and lost 165 lbs.

And if someone is pursuing it out of vanity, significant weight loss will age your appearance considerably.

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A person isn’t made any healthier by magically becoming thin.

Not really true. Your joints will thank you for the lower weight they have to support. However, I do agree that that is not the good way. You should work out and eat less junk food/sweets/fatty stuff. Doing that will make you healthier, and getting thin is a natural byproduct of that.

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Less weight on the joints sure, but reactive hypoglycemia and iron deficiency also. Less weight on the joint can help you pursue health by making activity less destructive to joints, but if you don’t become more active, being thin does nothing by itself. Sounds like we are largely in agreement but I don’t think being thin is a goal at all. Obesity is a bar set too low. I think my wife might be back to obese at 150lbs, and she is still thin af to me. Sex sucked when she was skin and bones.

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And what about body builders that have 200pounds of muscle… are they “unhealthy”?

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Being overweight is unhealthy. No amount of propaganda will change that.

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Thinner does not equate health, one can not be truly healthy while obese. It is Terrible for your body. Pretty much every organ system is working overtime and struggling. There is inflammation everywhere, your joints are suffering.

The healthy at any size stuff is a massive lie.

Yes, skinny people and regular sized people get sick too. Just like people who don’t smoke can still get lung cancer.

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Obesity is set too low. See other comment I guess.

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Woe-manosphere

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Real men make women sandwichs

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Mmm … woman sandwich …

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Hey now, only good boys deserve those.

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I know I shouldn’t dox other users, but I think I just found Armie Hammer’s account.

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How does one “be fertile”? You either are, or you aren’t. I guess they’re saying they should just have lots of babies? Anyhow, gross, just like the other online grifts/psyops.

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It’s big pharma propoganda pushing fertility drugs.

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Ah yeah, forgot that angle. My partner was researching that recently, that shit is expensive (not to mention any unpleasant side effects you might have on it). I can’t imagine a plausible scenario where young, non-married women who aren’t already actively trying to get pregnant would just take that stuff though.

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Double edged grift! Suffer by feeling you’re not being “womanly” enough no matter what you do, and only feel minorly deserving of praise once you’ve depleted yourself of all your own efforts and self esteem 🤡 that way you’re willing to buy whatever snake oil they’re selling.

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My guess is that it’s anti-contraceptive garbage.

The pill = no babies = not fertile = not a real woman.

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Yeah after I wrote that later on it sorta just popped up — oh this is probably just meaning “don’t take birth control”.

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“womanosphere” is a distractingly bad name

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