Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[simiansmarts]

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This reminded me that there were a bunch of trans RE obsessed with FF14

you're telling me terminally online, socially maladjusted people gather in an online space (MMO, videogame forum), take it over and proceed to have the community bend to their unhinged behavior? 
 
say it ain't so! 

[Potato]

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This reminded me that there were a bunch of trans RE obsessed with FF14

you're telling me terminally online, socially maladjusted people gather in an online space (MMO, videogame forum), take it over and proceed to have the community bend to their unhinged behavior? 
 
say it ain't so! 

Someone should start a forum thread where we can make fun of this kind of behaviour!

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/today-in-character-assassination-capcom-makes-alex-marry-impregnate-his-cousin-step-sister-in-sfvi-who-he-also-helped-raise-from-a-baby.1465594/page-15#post-152812132
Tohsaka

People acting like anime/manga is the only thing that has incest, meanwhile ignoring one of the most popular western media properties in recent times Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon which feature it prominently.

The medieval fantasy?

[Jansen]

Reading this thread as a fat person is basically self harm. Some of the rhetoric around weight loss here is... honestly offensive and triggering.



The body positivity movement has fully died at this point and nobody seems to want to do actual body neutrality or fat liberation (besides fat people ourselves) so now we're stuck in "thin is in" heroin chic 2.0 and people still seem to think obesity and "food noise" is the worst thing ever when I know several people who have relapsed into EDs in the past year. People are not just on ozempic they are literally starving themselves to reach the skinny ideal.

Era hates fat people and always has. I really should stay out of these threads for my own sanity but each time I peek in to see if the level of discourse has improved. Spoiler: it never does.

[D3RANG3D]

Fuck fat fucks!

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And I say that as a fat fuck!

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/4439210/Crucifier/

Gatdamn

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2026-ot1-mega-midterm-mania.1452433/page-32#post-152894950

God, I hate it whenever its election time in Georgia.

A bunch of greedy rednecks fighting to convince people of who hates transexuals more.

Fucking Rick Jackson commericals every five seconds. Boasting about how he's the most evil fucker on the planet and going to shake things up like Trump.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/it-turns-out-that-when-left-to-their-own-devices-all-they-do-is-make-each-other-happy.1470142/

Jim Sterling shilling thread:

All I'm saying is not a single one of these creatures suggests hurting each other for the amusement of their captors once humans are out of the picture. It turns out that when left to their own devices, all they do is make each other happy.

I felt it with New Pokémon Snap and I feel it now with Pokopia. Making Pokémon happy makes *me* happy... which makes me question the series' focus on battling.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/perhaps-i-judged-modern-pixar-too-harshly.1470163/#post-152907691

Eh, I think I'm just too old now I haven't really enjoyed a Pixar movie since Up.

It's fine and normal for tastes to change over time, but if you genuinely feel you're "too old" to enjoy these, that's very much something you need to analyze and interrogate.

[Boredfrom]

The body positivity movement has fully died at this point and nobody seems to want to do actual body neutrality or fat liberation (besides fat people ourselves) so now we're stuck in "thin is in" heroin chic 2.0 and people still seem to think obesity and "food noise" is the worst thing ever when I know several people who have relapsed into EDs in the past year.

No offense, but that shouldn’t tell you how shallow and self serving the whole movement was?

[Lonewulfeus]

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This reminded me that there were a bunch of trans RE obsessed with FF14

man I know there's a bit of explanation there in the replies but I really want to see what they've seen

I need more context, what did they do to you?!

It’s really just exposure I’m sure.  At first it’s all sure, trans people just want to exist, that’s not unreasonable.  But then when you’re actually exposed to the batshit insane world view of the typical person of gender or pooner and you realize the world actually is better off without them.  people of gender are doing more harm to themselves (literally and figuratively) than any hate campaign or politician could ever dream of.  Realizing that would take the ability to self-reflect and rationalize and if they had either ability they probably wouldn’t have trooned out in the first place.

[Taco Bell Tower]

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This reminded me that there were a bunch of trans RE obsessed with FF14

Hell, one admitted they were cis til they played XIV and suddenly became trans.  Android Sophia's "gf", I believe.

[benji]

Reading this thread as a fat person is basically self harm. Some of the rhetoric around weight loss here is... honestly offensive and triggering.



The body positivity movement has fully died at this point and nobody seems to want to do actual body neutrality or fat liberation (besides fat people ourselves) so now we're stuck in "thin is in" heroin chic 2.0 and people still seem to think obesity and "food noise" is the worst thing ever when I know several people who have relapsed into EDs in the past year. People are not just on ozempic they are literally starving themselves to reach the skinny ideal.

How fat does the average American need to become before we achieve fat liberation?

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[Nintex]

The body positivity movement has fully died

because a lot of them are literally dead now

[benji]

I'm sure some must exist somewhere but I've never come across anyone who seriously uses the term "fat liberation" and doesn't believe the entire medical field is a conspiracy where people who are bigoted against fat people assemble to find ways to psychologically torture and genocide fat people.

[filler]

ozempic worked for benji. no excuses 

[benji]

I was trying to find this "healthy at any size" chart some "expert" made for new "inclusive sizes" above obese and look at this meaningless graphic that was in the results.  

[benji]

Found it: https://fluffykittenparty.com/2021/06/01/fategories-understanding-smallfat-fragility-the-fat-spectrum/

The Importance of Intersectionality
The other thing that’s important to note is that clothing size and access are not the only factors at play here.

Fat activism is (or, at least, should be) intersectional. That is, it takes into account how different political and social identities overlap and interact with one another. For instance, someone who is mid-fat, but also trans and living with a visible disability that requires assistive devices has a very different experience than a cis, non-disabled person who is also mid-fat. A young fat person will not have the same experience navigating healthcare or workplace treatment/discrimination as someone who is 50+ and also fat. BIPOC (Black and Indigenous People/Persons of Color) who are fat live with racism as well as size oppression. So, these identities intersect with one another (see that?!) and it is only by considering the full picture of a person’s identity that we can understand their experience.

None of the categories for fat people aim to give a full picture of what oppressions and privileges a given person lives with. What it’s aiming to do is add size oppression (and privilege) to the equation.

 

Here's some more theory for y'all:

A note on language: Apart from quoted material, this article uses the term “obesity,” the medicalized notion of fatness, in quotes or censored as ob*sity as per fat liberationist conventions that reject the idea that fatness is a disease. The concept of ob*sity is used to exact violence on fat people, and fat activists regard it as a slur. The medical use of “obesity” does not negate this reality.

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Astep back: If you want to challenge fatphobia, you have to start with the understanding that fat people are worthy of respect, safety, and dignity. A “but” cannot follow this statement. Fat people are worthy of respect, safety, and dignity. Fat people are worthy of respect, safety, and dignity no matter how fat they are. Fat people are worthy of respect, safety, and dignity no matter how sick they are, no matter how much they eat, no matter how much they move, no matter how far they are from any notion of health, however defined.

Articles that try to correct people’s preconceived notions about ob*sity do not usually start with these assertions. But then again, articles like these are not usually written by fat people and are almost never written by fat Black people. Articles like these are not usually written by anyone with any real skin in the game. But mine is. I’m in the thick of this.

In writing this to you, I am fighting for my life.

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In Da’Shaun Harrison’s Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, the Black fat queer trans abolitionist theorist notes that “for race to be constructed, the Slave had to exist—and had to exist as the antithesis of health—so that European physicians, anthropologists, and other eugenicists could determine what set the Slave apart from the… Caucasian.”

This is the origin story of anti-fatness.

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Here are the three things people get wrong most often, in no particular order.

One: There is no difference between a) providers who are horrible to fat people because they openly hate us, b) providers who are horrible to fat people because they think it’s the best way to get us to lose weight, and c) providers who are horrible to fat people because they haven’t bothered to learn how not to be. There is no difference to the patient, or the outcome. A healthcare provider’s motivation for harming fat people, often via denying us vital care unless we lose weight, does not justify the harm done or make it any less unethical.

Two: Medical fatphobia is not a question of implicit bias. Academic papers about medical fatphobia are rife with insistence that the fucked-up things physicians do to fat patients are unconscious and unintentional. There is nothing implicit about telling a fat person with gastrointestinal distress that they just need to change their diet without any further investigations into what they’re feeling. There is nothing implicit about showing surprise when a fat person’s lab results do not indicate an underlying health issue.  There is only pathologization in action; disgust and ire are not unintentional.

Three. Medical fatphobia isn’t the result of providers not knowing some special cheat codes for working with fat patients. Providers didn’t all miss the day in medical school when students were taught how not to be cruel to fat people. Medical fatphobia is medicine’s status quo.

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As public health researcher Monica Kriete explained to me, ob*sity prevention-types have done similar retrofitting to stay relevant during this equity-focused shift. “They often treat ob*sity as a health ‘outcome’ that is ‘inequitably’ distributed in order to frame anti-fat interventions as ‘equity promoting’… even though a theoretically consistent approach would consider the differences in health outcomes between fat and thin people as groups to be health inequities caused by anti-fatness, and treat weight stigma as a structural determinant of health analogous to racism or ableism.”

Put more simply: people who do ob*sity prevention are calling it health equity work because ob*sity is more common among marginalized groups like Black and Indigenous people, who are generally the focus of health equity work. But there’s nothing about ob*sity prevention work that resembles health equity. As Kriete described, a sound health equity approach to fatness would concern itself with the differences in health outcomes between fat and not-fat people and, ultimately, treat fatphobia as the structural influence creating those differences.

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Black studies scholar Saidiya Hartman once remarked that “care is the antidote to violence.” We cannot hope to protect fat people while destroying the World if we do not care for them, and fat liberation cannot be powered by anything but love for fat people. Even when there is rage on our behalf, there must be love for us too. No matter how much we despise the systems that kill us, we must love fat people more. I am a fat liberationist because I love fat people with everything I have—Black, disabled, trans, poor fat people who are soft and abundant and irregular when the World demands we be petrified and sallow and normative. You—whoever you are—cannot hope to help create a new world that holds fat people in all their plenitude if you don’t love us, if you don’t truly believe we deserve to be held.

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Caring for each other is how we survive to do the rest of our work. This is not meant to downplay the serious abolitionist work that needs to be done in order to create marked change for fat people, but there is no change without care. We cannot demand divestment from the BMI without care. We cannot raise our kids to reject body hierarchies without care. We cannot raise our kids to know their fat bodies are worthy without care. We cannot terrorize weight loss companies or be a menace to their corporate advocates without care. We cannot keep young fat Black girls safe from medical trauma without care. We cannot challenge profit-driven disinformation about weight without care. We cannot hold doctors accountable for the ways they hurt young fat Black girls without care. We cannot cultivate spaces for learning and political education outside of exclusionary universities without care.

We cannot help fat Black people survive this World to see the next without care. We cannot help people resist, cannot get organized, cannot be a movement without care.

Articles like these—the ones that try to correct people’s preconceived notions about ob*sity or weight—usually do not end with fat odes to care. But like I said: articles like these are not usually written by fat people and are almost never written by fat Black people. Articles like these are not usually written by anyone with any real skin in the game. But mine is. I’m in the thick of this. So are a lot of people I love.

In writing this to you, I am fighting for our lives.

But y'all too white to be ready for that conversation.

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FAT

[benji]

Been over an hour and not a single like on this post full of FAT FACTS that y'all can't DLSS5 away. Sounds about white.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

I’m in the thick of this.

[Boredfrom]

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Been over an hour and not a single like on this post full of FAT FACTS that y'all can't DLSS5 away. Sounds about white.

I need to finish my events in ZZZ.  

The idol arc is hype after Chinese female Poochie arc killed most hype for the game.

[Uncle]

I was trying to find this "healthy at any size" chart some "expert" made for new "inclusive sizes" above obese and look at this meaningless graphic that was in the results.  

they just wanted to make a graphic that looked like a big dish of sherbet

[HaughtyFrank]

Reading this thread as a fat person is basically self harm. Some of the rhetoric around weight loss here is... honestly offensive and triggering.



The body positivity movement has fully died at this point and nobody seems to want to do actual body neutrality or fat liberation (besides fat people ourselves) so now we're stuck in "thin is in" heroin chic 2.0 and people still seem to think obesity and "food noise" is the worst thing ever when I know several people who have relapsed into EDs in the past year. People are not just on ozempic they are literally starving themselves to reach the skinny ideal.

Era hates fat people and always has. I really should stay out of these threads for my own sanity but each time I peek in to see if the level of discourse has improved. Spoiler: it never does.

Maybe try Ozempic

[Uncle]

how does it taste

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ice-agents-will-move-into-american-airports-on-monday-according-to-tom-homan-and-trump.1470055/page-5#post-152913226

So what i'm reading is if there's a aviation-based false flag attempt on the US, Trump can both blame Iran and Democrats in one swoop.

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/ice-agents-will-move-into-american-airports-on-monday-according-to-tom-homan-and-trump.1470055/page-5#post-152913787

Oh, the Call of Duty mission

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/digital-foundry-hands-on-with-dlss-5-our-first-look-at-nvidias-next-gen-photo-realistic-lighting.1464238/page-63#post-152652898

 User banned (1 week): personal attacks

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[clockwork5]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-you-preferred-activewear-brands-for-the-gym.1470196/

EntremetGPT asking the hard hitting anti-capitalist questions. 

And idk this post next to the skinny post is a little weird. It’s like “Hey Era, what brand of GLP-1 do you prefer?!” It just seems like my intersectionality of being both fat and a lazy slob is being ignored right now.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

how does it taste

Tastes like deez nuts.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ice-agents-will-move-into-american-airports-on-monday-according-to-tom-homan-and-trump.1470055/page-5#post-152913226

So what i'm reading is if there's a aviation-based false flag attempt on the US, Trump can both blame Iran and Democrats in one swoop.

Yeah, he definitely wouldn't have done that otherwise.

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[Gameboy Nostalgia]

weird how the Chappelle Roan thread is on page 14 after 3 days while the trans genocide FAQ sticky couldn't even break past 5 in 2023 and had even less replies than that in the 2024 version.

Real telling.

[Kyon1988]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-you-preferred-activewear-brands-for-the-gym.1470196/

EntremetGPT asking the hard hitting anti-capitalist questions. 

And idk this post next to the skinny post is a little weird. It’s like “Hey Era, what brand of GLP-1 do you prefer?!” It just seems like my intersectionality of being both fat and a lazy slob is being ignored right now.

EntremetGPT always brags he walks 10/20k steps per day,goes to the gym every day and eats below 1500 calories. Guy is not well