When people of privilege fail to realize what diet culture actually is

Oh god, here we go again. Imagine acting like you know what diet culture is all while remaining ignorant of the privileges you have and dismissing others who disagree with your mindset. Anyways, let’s break it down:

“Let's be clear: toxic diet culture is real. It's a multi million dollar industry that preys on insecurity, pretty privilege, beauty standards, and in the case of women, also female objectification and misogyny in order to peddle the promise of conventional attractiveness at the expense of your health. Crash diets, supplements, weight loss programs, pharmaceuticals.

My pet peeve is lazily slapping that term on any weight management, no matter how healthy and sensible.”

“lazily slapping”? Really? Is that the term you’re going to come up with? It’s ironic how you say that yet you’re linking the words “healthy” and “sensible” together as if they’re good. Also you don’t have a clue what it’s like to “manage your weight”, as weight has very little to do with health and bodies are diverse.

“Treating someone who turns down a slice of cake as if they've just swallowed a whole jar of amphetamines. Dropping 5 pounds in a month for that upcoming winter cruise might as well be pro-ana. Watching any kind of food that specifically harms your individual, personal health is "assigning moral labels to food."”

You're ignoring the context on these scenarios. All you’re simply trying to tell us is that skinny is healthy and being fat is unhealthy. So many things you get wrong, and so little time for me to explain the bullshit. You know there are plenty of other reasons why people avoid certain foods besides losing weight. You’re assuming losing weight is the only reason, when you’re just plain wrong. People could avoid it because they’re allergic, or they already ate something, or they just don’t like a particular type of food. And by the way you talk and use this logic to debunk the claim of “morals in food”, it only proves our point.

“If you're in eating disorder recovery, where any kind of diet talk can trigger a relapse, this might be sensible.

But, can we please save the term "diet culture" for dieting that's actually... destructive? Because right now, the term isn't particularly helpful.”

Do you not realize that eating disorders are far more common than you would like to think? ANY diet that does not satisfy or even harm an individual IS destructive. When you’re not eating enough calories, your body tries to fight off your hunger by maintaining the fat stored in you. Ignoring your needs IS destructive. No one is telling you to eat a slice of cake when you’re full. Eating disorders and diet culture is a far more complex subject that many of us are still trying to understand.

The only thing you’re trying to explain is that you have a privilege, a privilege that you can eat whatever you like and still lose weight easily after a few workouts. Most of us don’t experience that. We are told that being skinny is the equivalent to healthy and as we struggle to lose and maintain our shape, we become more miserable. Our stress is a huge factor on our weight. Just because we’re fat and reject the ideas of diet culture doesn’t mean we’re lazy, it just means we’re tired of the same old lies crammed down our throats.

If you still don’t want to put yourself in our shoes, then you can stay in your little bubble.