All of the lessons that The Biggest Loser taught—from disordered eating to ruthless self talk—all of that came because we culturally thought it was beneficial & entertaining to abuse fat people. Anti-fat bigotry was the spoonful of sugar that helped the medicine go down. It was a feature, not a bug.

Food constantly shows up as a gateway drug to dangerous vaccine narratives. "If you can't pronounce it, don't eat it" got applied to vaccine liposome ingredients during COVID to spread fear. Folks in the food & nutrition space need to be vigilant about the thinking/messaging that gets normalized

Absolutely no one’s forcing anyone to buy queer books they don’t want to buy, but quite a lot of people with a lot of power are literally banning queer books from libraries, bookstores, curricula, so maybe fuck all the way off with this slimy hand-wringing bullshit & fix your fucking hearts