“Obese” is the N word for plus-sized people.
4:05 PM · 1/23/23 · 2.3M Views
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Toxic positivity is already a thing, and Americans have kind of perfected it
#2blessed2bstressed
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Good lord. This timeline sucks
Is cancer a slur? Is diabetes a slur? Also, coincidentally, being obese often results in both
Obese is a medical term. That’s it.
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They are slurs if people intend them as slurs. This is how language works. Many current slurs were introduced as terms used in scientific and medical contexts. 🤷
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And some insults are reclaimed by the groups being insulted and either cease to be insults altogether (like “queer” or “Protestant”) or are no longer viewed as insults within the community (though they still are from the outside, I won’t give an example but I think you’ll find one easily). Languages are fascinating living organisms!
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So was retarded once upon a time which is exactly why I think it’s dumb that we keep changing the word. Assholes will always use the currently accepted term as a slur until it isn’t accepted anymore and then the only thing that’s changed is that you now have two slurs instead of one. Don’t police the language, police the intent.
the fat positivity community seem to disappeared when ozempic, glp-1 came to the market.
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I wouldn’t compare racial hatred and prejudice lasting for centuries with obesity which is partly and frequently a poor lifestyle choice and not so bothering in life as racial bias. Yes, I am still aware of genetical causes and that poorer people have worse access to a healthy food. But in most cases an individual can do something about it.
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I don’t get this whole cancel English thing. It’s cancelling a word because of its literal definition and substituting it with an alternative word loosely given the same definition.
Except in the case of “plus-sized”, I think that holds some actual negative context. It sounds like an insult because you’re calling someone obese, but you think they’re so obese that you need to be cautious about it.
