>I can't help but connect the dots from obesity to "a pervasive feeling of discomfort with one's body."
They are very big dots, really. More young people suffer from obesity than ever, more & more every year. Our food culture is badly broken - too many kids now grow up without ever seeing a meal cooked from scratch in their household, and…
>I can't help but connect the dots from obesity to "a pervasive feeling of discomfort with one's body."
They are very big dots, really. More young people suffer from obesity than ever, more & more every year. Our food culture is badly broken - too many kids now grow up without ever seeing a meal cooked from scratch in their household, and even parents who cook at home find their efforts disregarded in favor of the bright and flashy fast food advertised so colorfully on TV.
Young people suffering obesity have body image issues that no amount of "acceptance" can help. They know they don't look like the people on TV and they know their weight isn't healthy. At very young ages, they start to be ashamed of their bodies & they dress to hide instead of to express themselves. They lose themselves online, where no one can see what they look like. And it goes beyond the strictly physical - the girls have earlier & earlier puberties, before they are psychologically ready to handle going through such changes. The boys have delayed puberties & other endocrine issues, leading to juvenile impotence & erectile dysfunction.
This shame also creates a vicious cycle with obesity - eating in public or with friends makes them acutely uncomfortable with themselves. They seclude themselves and survive on delivery and packaged goods. All these issues are wrapped up together - isolation, internet addiction, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, self-hate, self-destruction - they all compound to worsen each other, and together they render young people perfectly desperate for any solution to the misery in which they find themselves. "Trans" is one such solution, video games are another, opioids are another, suicide is another.
More & more young people take their own lives every year, and it is plain at this point that so-called Psychologists have absolutely no idea how to deal with the problems young people currently face. They tell them they have disorders and that they need medication and that they need to "work on themselves" and all of it is complete horse pucky! They need to be off their smartphones and out in the world, learning that they are a human being and not some kind of synthetic digital creature - and, above all else, they need adults to be off their smartphones along with them. We, the adults, are failing to protect them. We are failing to be there with them in our terrifying time. We have left them to digital parents, who care not for them in the slightest.
>I can't help but connect the dots from obesity to "a pervasive feeling of discomfort with one's body."
They are very big dots, really. More young people suffer from obesity than ever, more & more every year. Our food culture is badly broken - too many kids now grow up without ever seeing a meal cooked from scratch in their household, and even parents who cook at home find their efforts disregarded in favor of the bright and flashy fast food advertised so colorfully on TV.
Young people suffering obesity have body image issues that no amount of "acceptance" can help. They know they don't look like the people on TV and they know their weight isn't healthy. At very young ages, they start to be ashamed of their bodies & they dress to hide instead of to express themselves. They lose themselves online, where no one can see what they look like. And it goes beyond the strictly physical - the girls have earlier & earlier puberties, before they are psychologically ready to handle going through such changes. The boys have delayed puberties & other endocrine issues, leading to juvenile impotence & erectile dysfunction.
This shame also creates a vicious cycle with obesity - eating in public or with friends makes them acutely uncomfortable with themselves. They seclude themselves and survive on delivery and packaged goods. All these issues are wrapped up together - isolation, internet addiction, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, self-hate, self-destruction - they all compound to worsen each other, and together they render young people perfectly desperate for any solution to the misery in which they find themselves. "Trans" is one such solution, video games are another, opioids are another, suicide is another.
More & more young people take their own lives every year, and it is plain at this point that so-called Psychologists have absolutely no idea how to deal with the problems young people currently face. They tell them they have disorders and that they need medication and that they need to "work on themselves" and all of it is complete horse pucky! They need to be off their smartphones and out in the world, learning that they are a human being and not some kind of synthetic digital creature - and, above all else, they need adults to be off their smartphones along with them. We, the adults, are failing to protect them. We are failing to be there with them in our terrifying time. We have left them to digital parents, who care not for them in the slightest.
This is spot-on, well-put, and must be gotten out there as a cause of this transgender scourge!