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Michelle Allison
@fatnutritionist.bsky.social
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a nutritionist (RD) who is fat

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American-Canadian

Toronto
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In 1966, Susan Sontag put her finger on a constitutive American contradiction: that we are simultaneously "an apocalyptic country and a valetudinarian" one. Americans are obsessed by visions of doom and catastrophic violence, and we are temperamentally timorous, oversensitive, health-conscious, and fearful of death to the point of neurosis and unreality. We are a nation of end-times preachers, political militants, and holy warriors who consult longevity influencers, count calories, and go to the gym every day; we can't decide whether to make the country Great Again via millenarian nationalism or make it Healthy Again by regulating food dyes. "The average citizen may harbor the fantasies of John Wayne," Sontag wrote, "but he as often has the temperament of Jane Austen's Mr. Woodhouse." In this respect, Donald Trump, a tetchy germophobe dazzled by visions of lethal order, is utterly average. Under ideal circumstances, this tension -- between, shall we say, enmity and enema -- suits American interests just fine. Within our borders, fretful self-absorption prevails: safety, security, hypochondria, and hygiene, racial and otherwise. Our repressed barbarity provides the psychic energy for American "dynamism," that enviable attribute, by which is meant voracious acquisitiveness and frantic, death-fleeing work. Meanwhile, we export our uninhibited fantasies abroad, where the American taste for earth-shattering violence is given free rein. These military adventures, in turn, guarantee (in principle) the security of the homeland, where well-showered Americans can go on buying things and worrying over the end of the world, blissfully unaware that the world ends -- every single day -- for people other than themselves.
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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new supremacy just dropped
October 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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here ya go
September 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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she also sleeps like a pile of disassembled cat parts sometimes
August 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I love that ASDAH included this lil spoiler in their latest email lmaooo...I told you, we've literally been having these arguments on the internet for decades
July 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I'm still scared to jump on one foot, but I like getting up in the air
January 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM