The latest form of fat-shaming
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:40 am
Now that Ozempic and similar drugs are becoming more popularly known and prescribed for weight loss as well as for controlling blood sugar, people are discovering not only that significant weight loss may occur but that celebrities may have been using drugs like these to lose weight before the general public became aware.
Along with this we now see reports of this or that celebrity assuring us they did not lose weight with Ozempic, as if to use this drug is somehow cheating in the virtue stakes of weight loss. What the heck? In the past few years the internet manosphere has been very excited about attacking women for being too fat by accusing them of having diabetes, as if anyone overweight develops diabetes and as if this is some sort of moral and aesthetic failure. But now people also need to be ashamed of taking drugs that control diabetes and getting some kind of freebie weight loss in the process. In the old days people did it with cigarettes and illegal drugs, I guess, but now that any old doctor can give you a legal prescription for a drug that might cause weight loss, we have to make sure that it was never about the weight in the first place but only about the shaming! We can't give up the shaming at any cost!
Along with this we now see reports of this or that celebrity assuring us they did not lose weight with Ozempic, as if to use this drug is somehow cheating in the virtue stakes of weight loss. What the heck? In the past few years the internet manosphere has been very excited about attacking women for being too fat by accusing them of having diabetes, as if anyone overweight develops diabetes and as if this is some sort of moral and aesthetic failure. But now people also need to be ashamed of taking drugs that control diabetes and getting some kind of freebie weight loss in the process. In the old days people did it with cigarettes and illegal drugs, I guess, but now that any old doctor can give you a legal prescription for a drug that might cause weight loss, we have to make sure that it was never about the weight in the first place but only about the shaming! We can't give up the shaming at any cost!