For real - fat activists have been saying BMI is bullshit online since the 00's, and the world is still only taking it vaguely seriously when thinner people bring it up. 🤬

https://twitter.com/neuroticnormal/status/1476671547616157696

We've known BMI is bullshit for decades.

We've known shame isn't conducive to weight loss or positive health and life outcomes for fat people for decades.

Fatphobia persists.

The diet industry continues to boom.

Doctors continue to medically neglect us so badly we die.

I know these people. They run in my circles, they've been friends to me.

But I also saw this argument Wendy is describing start and what I witnessed, while not the entirety, was infuriating.

I know nobody's first impulse when they feel kink-shamed is to be chill but damn, y'all

https://twitter.com/thewenchworks/status/1275480520303001601

When I got the news a few months later that Wendy straight up left after this argument, some things became apparent to me:

I failed to keep showing up & engaging @ a crucial time for my friend

Also our community still does racist-ass bullshit even if race isn't the topic. 🙃

@_aceinthehole This is an interesting topic for me. I have many Thoughts™ and there will be a thread. But no quiz after, I promise.

I was a very intense emotional masochist in my kink a decade ago. I asked my dominant at the time to SHRED me in our scenes. @_aceinthehole This was very much targeted verbal humiliation (we were LD partners having phonesex) rather than degrading names, and was re: my worth as a person, generally.

I've repressed a lot from those years so I don't remember anything about my physicality being involved.