I was so excited to find out that you had a newsletter and it’s been such a wonderful balm in my inbox. I love your sensitivity and nuance in it as much as I loved your book!
Sidenote, I actually have a plugin for my browser (it’s a profanity filter that you can add your own words to) that replaces all the ”O“ words in various forms (ob#sity/ov#rweight) with a variations on ”larger-body“ and it’s really nice to see neutral terms instead of a medicalized/moralized one. It’s actually been more than nice, it’s been profound. It keeps me (a fat woman) from being quite so stigmatized whenever I browse health news.
Naturally I removed all the filters for ”profane“ words and only use it for the weight-related ones :)
For a time I had it set to replace the words ”keto“ with ”bullshit diet“ but during a screenshare with myself, my boss, and a graphic design client team to look at their website for reference for a project, it turned out they had some references to the keto diet — I had to pretend my screenshare malfunctioned because I panicked about having to tell everyone how I really felt about keto!
Ahahaha, I totally feel how stressful that must have been but also how amazing and on point for them to see bullshit diet stand in for keto. Thanks for the link!
I was so excited to find out that you had a newsletter and it’s been such a wonderful balm in my inbox. I love your sensitivity and nuance in it as much as I loved your book!
Sidenote, I actually have a plugin for my browser (it’s a profanity filter that you can add your own words to) that replaces all the ”O“ words in various forms (ob#sity/ov#rweight) with a variations on ”larger-body“ and it’s really nice to see neutral terms instead of a medicalized/moralized one. It’s actually been more than nice, it’s been profound. It keeps me (a fat woman) from being quite so stigmatized whenever I browse health news.
Oh my gosh! What a genius idea. I need to install one stat.
The one I use is on Chrome, but I think it’s available for other browsers (under the same name, ”Advanced Profanity Filter“: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-profanity-filter/piajkpdbaniagacofgklljacgjhefjeh.
Naturally I removed all the filters for ”profane“ words and only use it for the weight-related ones :)
For a time I had it set to replace the words ”keto“ with ”bullshit diet“ but during a screenshare with myself, my boss, and a graphic design client team to look at their website for reference for a project, it turned out they had some references to the keto diet — I had to pretend my screenshare malfunctioned because I panicked about having to tell everyone how I really felt about keto!
Ahahaha, I totally feel how stressful that must have been but also how amazing and on point for them to see bullshit diet stand in for keto. Thanks for the link!
Thank you for this. I am trying to avoid this coverage because I find it so anxiety producing and self-serving by those in the "wellness" industry.
YES. So self-serving. And wildly unhelpful.