It’s so weird bc as weeaboos we all started out watching Bleach and Naruto and now the weeaboo starter pack is SAO and Attack on Titan and some kids don’t even know what bleach and naruTO ARE
As someone who’s weeaboo starter pack was DBZ and Gundam Wing, this entire post hurts.
The “fact” that junk food is cheaper than real food has become a reflexive part of how we explain why so many Americans are overweight, particularly those with lower incomes. I frequently read confident statements like, “when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli …” or “it’s more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald’s than to cook a healthy meal for them at home.”
this bullshit fills me with a very specific kind of rage. so, TIME TO DEBUNK!
that meal from mcdonalds takes virtually no time to acquire AND is available almost anywhere.
the second meal? that “salad” is lettuce … with nothing else, not even dressing unless its just olive oil or some milk i guess? gross.
also thats the price of each serving, not an entire loaf of bread, a bottle of olive oil, etc. that stuff adds up which means you have to have a lot of money at one time to buy it all.
that meal probably took an hour and a half to make, which is a long fucking time when you work multiple jobs or are caring for a lot of people or dont have help! seriously, if you are a single parent of three who works, is spending an hour and a half every night preparing a meal a likely option?
same with beans and rice! also, you know whats a fucking bummer? eating beans and rice every night because you are poor. ask any person who has done it and they will tell you (you can start with me).
there is a “nutrition” argument here that lacks a follow up: poor people are more likely to be doing physical labor and need more than 571 calories per meal.
you know who is less likely to know how to bake or prepare a chicken? people without access to the internet, or libraries, or who werent taught how to by their parents because their parents worked all the time. access to healthy foods is a classist issue and classism is cyclical, you fucking morons.
seriously, these sorts of infographics make me want to fucking flip tables. do you know why people don’t eat more fresh fruits and vegetables? because fresh fruits and vegetables are expensive, because they take a long time to prepare, because they dont live near a grocery store that has a decent produce section, because they dont have reliable transportation to get groceries to and from the grocery store, because they dont have the energy to plan all of the shit that is involved in making healthy, intentional, filling, balanced meals. basically: poor people get fucked, and then we get BLAMED for being lazy.
eating “healthy”, aka access to fresh fruits and vegetables, is a privilege, first, foremost, always. so fuck you new york times and your ignorant goddamn infographic.
there are SYSTEMATIC REASONS that we do not have equal access to fresh fruits and vegetables. they are very REAL problems. besides, you know, systematic poverty in america, the total mis-distribution of farm subsidies is a perfect place to start. read about that, then either get bent or start working on the actual problem.
“The bubbly 21-year-old singer has been hiding a dark secret: she once struggled with an eating disorder. “I was never anorexic” she confides…“but there were days that I would try it.” With dangerous and alarming results; “one day I didn’t eat at all…I was passing out.” These days, Meghan is following a much healthier path. “She tried the starvation route and that didn’t work”, a pal reveals.“
Seriously? Meghan Trainor did not “struggle with an eating disorder”, she was not mentally ill - she simply wanted to lose weight, and chose to engage in crash diets in an attempt to do so, one of which involved spending an afternoon eating celery and ice cubes. Choosing not to eat for one day is NOT an eating disorder; spending a few hours snacking on celery and ice cubes in an attempt to ward if your hunger is NOT anorexia. Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses; a fa t that Meghan would be well aware of if she’d ever actually had one.
Quite honestly, it absolutely sickens me that Meghan Trainor is taking advantage of her fame to fuel the damaging misconceptions that already exist amongst society about eating disorders. If she had ever suffered from the illness, then she would know that eating disorders are not choices, that anorexia is not some silly diet you choose to engage in for a few hours before getting hungry and eating a sandwich. Anorexia is a deadly disease; a parasite which sucks the life out of sufferers; an illness which destroys and torments and totally ruins lives; those sufferers who it does not kill are often left wishing that it would. There is absolutely no “strength” involved in developing an eating disorder - as with any other illness, it cannot be chosen or learnt through “trying”. An eating disorder sufferer’s strength becomes evident when they begin to fight back against the illness that is determined to kill them; the strength of sufferers is displayed when they begin to claw their way back out of the depths of their illness, back towards life. If Trainor had genuinely battled an eating disorder, she would be well aware of the stigma surrounding the illness, and the damage that misconceptions about it can cause. It’s as though Meghan isn’t content with the fame she has achieved with her music, and feels she needs to play the “poor me, I once tried anorexia!” card in order to ensure her magazine interviews and publicity continues, without any consideration to those suffering from the illness she is making a mockery of. Quite honestly, her continued efforts to promote eating disorders as a choice and a weight loss method utterly disgusts and sickens me; she should feel fucking ashamed of herself. Unfortunately for those of us who are genuinely suffering from anorexia, asking our mother to make us a sandwich isn’t the ultimate cure for anorexia that Trainor makes it out to be.
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And people wonder why I despise Trainor… ‘I wasn’t strong enough’ ‘I tried to go anorexic’ are you fucking kidding me??? It’s like saying ‘I tried cancer once’, disgusting, she is just plain disgusting. EDs are not something you ‘go’ randomly. Jesus Christ.
