Rather, it involves complex issues such as socioeconomic status, food availability (and deserts), chronic illness and disability, mental illness, iatrogenic medicine (eg many medications cause weight gain), racism, and other intersecting factors. @betootaadvocate can and should be better than this.

Here’s the thing: Punching down on fat people isn’t funny - it’s hurting a marginalised group. There are a myriad of reasons why people are fat, and in the vast majority of cases, it has nothing to do with being a lazy ‘fat fuck’ who can’t be arsed cooking or going out to get food. 2/3

A Beetoota Advocate satire piece today reads: Demise of Menulog proves there’s no such thing as ethical food delivery you fat fuck.’ And then (paraphrase) no such thing as ethical food delivery…‘anyone who thought otherwise is, frankly, a fat fuck’. And the comments to my reply are worse. 1/3

And my kid (20 yo) has experienced their first anti-Halloween nutter of the day. Who was also kind enough to offer unsolicited advice on hair bleach, before telling my kid Halloween is of the devil 🤦‍♀️😈🙄

When someone you know who used to be kind and compassionate seems to have fallen down an alt-right rabbit hole and is yelling at you in straw man 😢

Sigh.NO.Autism is a neurodevelopmental difference, not a disorder & it certainly doesn't cause people to act like bigoted f***wits. Perhaps a combination of biopsychosocial factors coupled with unaccommodating societal structures. But Autism alone does not make ppl act this way
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Has anyone flown either Etihad or Ryanair (Europe) recently? Googling is giving me mixed results on this question. If you’d purchased 25 kg + 5 extra checked & 20 and 10 kg respectively, would you take 1 large suitcase (which is below the max dimensions limit? Or 1 medium and a small one?

it me! Discussing insider research as a neurodivergent neurodivergence researcher :)