A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, and outlets like Evie, are convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldview

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      Nothing bad about being thin tbh.

      Agreed. There is nothing wrong about being thin.

      Men should strive for that as well. Obesity is unhealthy.

      No, thinness in and of itself isn’t something to pursue other than for vanity. A person isn’t made any healthier by magically becoming thin. I’ve seen that with my own eyes, knowing someone who has had bariatric surgery and lost 165 lbs.

      And if someone is pursuing it out of vanity, significant weight loss will age your appearance considerably.

      • A person isn’t made any healthier by magically becoming thin.

        Not really true. Your joints will thank you for the lower weight they have to support. However, I do agree that that is not the good way. You should work out and eat less junk food/sweets/fatty stuff. Doing that will make you healthier, and getting thin is a natural byproduct of that.

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          Less weight on the joints sure, but reactive hypoglycemia and iron deficiency also. Less weight on the joint can help you pursue health by making activity less destructive to joints, but if you don’t become more active, being thin does nothing by itself. Sounds like we are largely in agreement but I don’t think being thin is a goal at all. Obesity is a bar set too low. I think my wife might be back to obese at 150lbs, and she is still thin af to me. Sex sucked when she was skin and bones.