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being a conventionally plus size woman in america is having every little detail of your life viewed under a microscope
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In what culture would a plus sized American not be considered plus sized?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

literally most of them outside of the western world. racism founded this country and fatphobia built it. america is probably one of the most fatphobic countries

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

How do you know?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

I feel like almost everyone in America is considered obese and it's not always the person's fault. If you look objectively at statics, the poorer you are, the worse food you buy, the fatter you are.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

im tired of this narrative from certain people of the plus size community. this is actually a fatphobic take once you research more and ignores the fact that the human body is just naturally diverse. people are naturally plus size, and some are not all due to genetics. body size is almost as immutable as skin color, eye color, height, etc. look at most developing countries — these countries tend to be poorer thus they deal with starvation and famines.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

Gotta be ragebait

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12031137/ there’s literally research out there to prove it babes. most people holding anti-fat biases don’t bother to look deeper into it.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

AMERICA IS FAT LEGIT LOOK AT A FUCKING GRAPH

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

LOOK AT THIS GRAPH NUMB NUTS

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

have you ever thought america also has a high genetic diversity due to being a country of people from all regions of the world

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

YOURE DIVERTING LOL

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

literally no im not. im saying america is probably more plus size due to genetic diversity. this also doesn’t change the fact that we are simultaneously one of the most fatphobic countries. women are half of the population and still subject to misogyny. being the majority or minority of a population doesn’t change the fact we can still be systemically oppressed

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

If the US’s obesity were caused by genetic diversity, we would expect less obesity than the countries where the most obese Americans have ancestors. Thats not what we see. The US has a far higher rate of obesity than most of the world. Japanese Americans for example, are far more likely to be obese than Japanese citizens.

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