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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 119 points 5 days ago

i know I'll get downvoted to oblivion for saying this but I don't care; I think this is disgusting. i don't like shaming people for who they are or what they do, or bullying of any kind, BUT i also think it's absolutely apprehensible behavior to engage in a romantic relationship with someone who uses discord.

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 4 points 4 days ago

...apprehensible?..well, like, yeah: folks've had internet-girlfriends since way back when paper-mail pen pals were a thing...

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

and here i thought the joke was too obvious

[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago

Hahaha, she's fat. The horror. The betrayal. He thought he had a girl who loved him, but little did he know she was fat. And nothing is more horrific than that. Thank God he found out, he might have started caring about her, like an idiot.

[-] Trashbones@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 4 days ago

I assumed the joke was his "girlfriend" was a man who's been lying to him, at least that was my initial thought from the exceptionally hairy legs.

[-] PolarKraken@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 days ago

Seems like the obvious joke to me too...

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 9 points 4 days ago
[-] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Why is everyone assuming this is about weight? What's the reverse image search part mean? I feel like there's something else to this.

[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

When he attempted to reverse search the image, he didn't find any matches which lead him to believe this is a real photo from the person he's chatting with and not a joke or something like that. There are two assumptions (based on this thread anyway, order has no bearings on which one is more "true" or not).

  1. (My assumption) He is disappointed because the girl is fat/hairy and therefore unattractive and unworthy of his affection.

  2. He is disappointed because the hairy leg makes him think his "girlfriend" is his "boyfriend," otherwise known as a catfish, and he is feeling tricked/embarrassed/hurt/etc.

My knee jerk assumption was weight. When I encounter posts with fat people, I'm used to people responding in revulsion so I took that train of thought.

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[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 119 points 6 days ago

"I'm serious. She could actually be a 300 pound dude who lives in his momma's basement in suburban Detroit. And her name is Chuck." - Ready Player One

[-] nimble 61 points 5 days ago

Without context this isn't funny and the most i can get out of it is that it is fat shaming and/or shaming unshaved legs

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 61 points 5 days ago

I think the implication is OP got catfished

[-] simop_jo@lemm.ee 41 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I don't like the idea of the word fat-shaming. Of course I don't condone bullying but being so hyper protective about someone being fat just is peculiar to me. When I was fat myself, due to the teasing of my friends (again not bullying) I put in the work and got fit therefore now I'm more healthy. That wouldn't happen if my friends were afraid of not "fat-shaming" me

[-] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 5 days ago

I mean, that's nice for you, but the difference is that that teasing was coming from the friends, and not internet randos who neither know nor care about you.

Next to nobody who sees that screenshot knows the person in the photo, or whether they're even able to lose weight by "putting in the work".

Also, there's a preponderance of evidence that your case is an outlier, and "teasing" does not improve the lives of its targets.

You never know what somebody is going through, and it costs nothing to be kind.

[-] simop_jo@lemm.ee 35 points 5 days ago

You're right, I should try and be more kind. Sorry

[-] Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Putting in the work is mostly eating normal portions, and not only grease USA™.

That person is fat, it's not normal and it has nothing to do with being kind.

[-] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm not gonna engage with you beyond this since you're obviously uninterested in opinions other than your own, otherwise you might have looked at any of the studies I linked investigating weight-related stigma, which is related to others' kindness or lack thereof.

You're not fighting societal acceptance of obesity, you're just lazily perpetuating harmful social stigmas to justify your own discomfort with fat people.

You say it's not "normal" to be fat, but if a condition is considered epidemic, it's not really abnormal anymore, is it.

You don't know what that person eats. You don't know if that person has a medical disorder. You don't know if that person is disabled and unable to prepare healthy food for themselves. You don't know if that person has an eating disorder that they can't afford treatment for. You don't know if that person is on medications that affect their weight. You don't know if that's even a real person or an AI-generated image.

But you're real quick to diagnose the cause of their obesity as exclusively their personal failure for not eating the correct amount of the correct food.

It takes minutes to see what researchers are saying about this stuff.

Historically, the central dogma of the science of obesity has been that it is simply an energy balance disorder: calories in, calories out. If this energy-based model (EBM) of obesity, was true, then essentially exercising more and eating less should work for everyone. However, this is not the case. Many researchers believe that the pathophysiology of obesity is more complex.

While both social–environmental factors and genetic preposition have been recognized to play important roles in obesity epidemic, Gao et al. (2021) present evidence showing that epigenetic changes may be a key factor to explain interindividual differences in obesity.

Honestly there have been a few times recently where I've seen fat people doing or saying interesting things online, and half the fucking comments are vitriol about their weight and how it reflects on their character, as though that overshadows and invalidates anything they're doing. And sometimes I see other commenters challenging these views, and sometimes the hate commenters will backpedal of they realize that the person they're discussing has what the consider to be a valid medical excuse.

I'm autistic and ADHD, and to me, that kind of behaviour is a reflection of what goes on in places like fakedisordercringe, where they claim to respect people with official diagnoses but never bother to actually see which of their targets has an official diagnosis, or consider that the absence of a formal diagnosis doesn't mean the absence of the condition. And that's because it's not actually about the underlying reasons for the behavior they're mocking, because they don't care about those reasons. They'd rather not know if there's a diagnosis that would exclude their target from mockery because how their target is acting makes them uncomfortable.

It's a way of enforcing conformity through cruelty, just like bullying fat people.

And I've read stuff like this piece, with the line "I wish I didn’t have to justify myself, or base my worth on proving that I’m trying.", and I see myself in that. I've burned myself out multiple times and seriously damaged my physical and mental health as a result of trying to act like I'm neurotypical.

I'm fucking tired of seeing anybody get judged as moral deficients online by people who know nothing about them or their histories.

[-] supamanc@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Yeah but, despite all of that, (none of which I read, I'm sure it's all true though), it is a natural law of the universe that you cannot get more energy out of a system than you put in. Regardless of all other factors, if you consume upto your daily maintenance calorific intake, you cannot gain weight. If you consume less, you WILL lose weight. Whether external factors or pressures prevent you from managing your calorific intake correctly in another discussion, but the laws of thermodynamics don't take a break when it comes to health and nutrition.

[-] ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

The irony being that despite the ironclad argument you wrote, they'll still irrationally judge fat people for their weight.

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[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

"Fat", I think, is a colloquial term.
This seems like "morbidly obese". And you are absolutely correct using a term (not) "normal" here.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

my father beat me and I turned out fine-

-ass comment

[-] Soulg@ani.social 6 points 5 days ago

Delusional comparison lol

[-] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 days ago
[-] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 days ago

Very simple. Turns out the egirlfriens op has a crush on is not attractive at all to op meaning its over.

[-] eksb@programming.dev 83 points 6 days ago

Is the problem that she uses Gnome, or that she uses dark mode?

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 59 points 6 days ago

Doesn't that look more like Windows 11?

[-] jia_tan 39 points 6 days ago

Windows 11 did rip off gnome 🤔

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Ummm...Windows 11 was way more of a KDE ripoff than a gnome ripoff.

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 days ago

Doesn't look like gnome in any way. That task bar looks like windows 11. Gnome doesn't have a task bar. The "bar" of icons on the left are discord servers.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Those are the 2 best things in this image

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago
[-] Lennnny@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I'm a girl with plump hairy legs and I'm hot.

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 30 points 6 days ago

I don't get it

Isn't it pretty normal not to shave your legs?

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 32 points 5 days ago

I think the implication is that the discord girlfriend was an overweight man pretending to be a woman in order to catfish

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[-] huppakee@lemm.ee 28 points 6 days ago

Maybe she's just cheating and accidently sent you a private pic from the person she's cheating with, don't give up hope /s

[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 12 points 6 days ago

You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about

[-] ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al 7 points 4 days ago

You guys are getting discord girlfriends?

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Have you seen the movie "Her"?

[-] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 days ago

Can't rule out that's a close-up of a capybara. Gf is 3 capybaras stacked in a trenchcoat? Rule 1 of the Internet--pics or she never happened.

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