kinderlin
weirdasshomo
One day, you get a knock on your door. When you open it, you see the protagonist from your favorite book standing there, wide-eyed. “I know you won’t believe me,” they say, “but you’re the main character of my favorite book. I know how it ends and I’m here to change it.”
“Oh thank god, my life is really spiraling out of control lately” you say, relieved
Harry Potter pulls out a handgun “I think you misunderstand the point of this visit”
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zeaphra
There’s several reasons I love this gif:
1. The WTF reaction by the ref
2. The dude who escapes looks like an Irish boxer from the 1800′s
3. Who’s also gay sassy (I mean those trunks and that hand flick)
4. The other wrestler just holds his arms in the same position while he’s looking dumbfounded at the gay sassy wrestler and then the audience and back
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ciadoodles
That straight up is exactly what I expected corvid art to look like tbh.
This is the most goth shit I’ve ever seen
cutelykiah
disasterbidesign
how dare people not love the upcoming generation
Every time I see this I notice something else about it that makes me love it even more
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themermaidpirate
Friendly reminder that 1200 calories is the recommended amount for a 5 year old
this hit me.
another fact is that 500 calories isn’t even enough for a new born.
why did I go so long convinced that going over 500 in a day was the end of the world?
Another friendly reminder that the United States used 1,000 calorie diets as torture for political prisoners and justified it using the diet industry.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/bush-torture-memos-commer_n_188190.html
In a footnote to a May 10, 2005, memorandum from the Office of Legal Council, the Bush attorney general’s office argued that restricting the caloric intake of terrorist suspects to 1000 calories a day was medically safe because people in the United States were dieting along those lines voluntarily.
“While detainees subject to dietary manipulation are obviously situated differently from individuals who voluntarily engage in commercial weight-loss programs, we note that widely available commercial weight-loss programs in the United States employ diets of 1000 kcal/day for sustain periods of weeks or longer without requiring medical supervision,” read the footnote. “While we do not equate commercial weight loss programs and this interrogation technique, the fact that these calorie levels are used in the weight-loss programs, in our view, is instructive in evaluating the medical safety of the interrogation technique.”
Another another friendly reminder that the Minnesota Starvation Experiment subjected adult men who were VOLUNTEERS to 1,560 calorie diets and the psychological effects were so profound that one volunteer cut three of his own fingers off and could not remember why.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment
These men were volunteers who knew exactly what they would be going through and when it would end, and who believed they were doing it for a good and moral reason (the research was used to help rehabilitate victims of starvation and famine at the end of WWII).
And these are the things we are expected to engage in FOREVER to stay at a “healthy” weight.
Reading about the Minnesota Starvation experiment was my wake-up call. It was what kicked me out of my eating disorder. The guy missing three fingers, whatever his name was, he was the last straw for me.
Scared me so fucking bad I stopped restricting my food that day, and never went back to it.
Just bringin’ this back around like I sometimes do.
Wow. This really hit me hard.
EAT
Fun fact– calorie restriction exacerbates symptoms of pretty much *every* mental illness.
One of the BEST WAYS I fight my anorexia is wising up with scientific facts, and letting go of my twisted logic!!!
When you feel like restricting, remember that diet culture MADE you think restriction=weightloss=skinny=Good.
Gina Kolata’s book Rethinking Thin has a lot of fact and is very readable, for those wanting a jumping-off point.
Diet Culture also tries to lie to you by telling you if you restrict long enough you will conquer hunger. This is impossible, and it is a lie designed to keep you dependent on diets and to scam you out of your money purchasing diet products. Feeling hunger is part of the human condition, it means you are alive and healthy.
Eat until are sated, and eat when you are hungry.
-FemaleWarrior, She/They
Naomi Wolfe maybe be an asshole, but every once in a while she makes a good point: “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession on female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.” Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
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temmiechang