Down the Tumblr rabbit hole part 1: Diet Culture Here I look at various Tumblr posts found in the “diet culture” tag, and attempt to analyze/debate them. I had a lot of fun writing this - as much as it is amusing to hurl insults at fatties - a nice, logical debate to counteract the FA bullshit was quite refreshing. There’s definitely going to be a part 2 or 3 to this post. We start off with a basic part of the fat acceptance movement - that anyone trying to diet, become healthy or improve their body is part of the capitalist “diet culture”. We start off with the idea that diet culture (which will be referred to as DC from here on) is nothing but a ploy to control and beat the average woman down into submission Fair enough. Many parts and movements found in society are up for debate. Since this is well phrased, gives a point (albeit a false one) and follows some semblance of (questionable) logic, I’m not going to tear into this one so hard. Now we jump into ideas that are in the heart of the FA movement - that obesity isn’t bad, and anything other than the disgusting glorification of excess is merely the concept of DC There are many things wrong with this post, and I’m sure you can spot them. But why is demonstrating the excess amount of sugar we consume considered antiquated thinking by the poster? Is it because we’ve gotten so large, so wasteful, and so lazy as a society that any semblance of what we once used to be is considered outdated? Now the question of the next generation comes into play - what are we teaching them? I agree, no kid should watch their mother poke her body in the mirror and obsess over her Slimfast shakes, because that creates disordered behavior when modeled for young kids. No kid should be fed into obesity and diabetes either, because that is also disordered eating. We need to teach kids how to be healthy and make the right choices. Sadly, we only dive deeper into the rabbit hole, as seen in these two posts. Now making a simple, healthy choice such as a salad over fast food or a low-fat yogurt instead of a cream one is tied into the toxic DC movement. It’s no longer a societal debate. It’s enabling. I leave you with this blatant attempt at validation. There is no debate here. There is no societal or political charge or ideas whatsoever in this one. This is pure validation, a futile attempt to give any reason to eating mountains of sweets. But you know what? Somewhere, deep down inside the lardy creature that created that post, something told her that it was disgusting to eat that many cookies without a reason (however absurd said reason may be). There was some bit of shame that she carried with her.  And do you know who put it there? You, my fellow shitlords and ladies.  Keep up the excellent work. Edit: Part 2 is up!