I’m 59 and let myself go a bit. Decided 7 months ago to get back in shape. I’m down 45 pounds and I’m back running three miles, three times a week. I feel great, my clothes are actually big on me and I can do things much easier than I could before. We live in a society where being lethargic is fine because our modern society, non-agrarian and post-manufacturing, doesn’t require most to burn many calories to earn a living. Men are doing the jobs that DO require physical effort, but most women do not. Women aren’t going out and milking cows, snapping beans and picking corn. It’s all brought to our doorstep. We are lazy, and we don’t want to take accountability for our health.
This story validates my earlier assumptions of feminism that it does not benefit womanhood. Rather, it benefits to pockets and strokes the egos those most historically privileged amongst us!
As men, we are mostly indifferent or somewhat unsympathetic towards feminism. But we NEVER read any of it. Mrs Fiamengo does it for us. And in a sense we should be alert to it. This is how feminist, and per implication the women who identify with the movement, choose to talk to the outside world. However goofy and outlandish it may sound, this is the kind of speech that has more and more influence in the public sphere. It needs a counter argument.
@@nocturnaljoe9543 This. You don't need to immerse yourself in the study of feminist ideologies, but to proudly claim that you have "NEVER" read any of it? Embarrassing...
@@mylesleggette7520 Blindly following politicians, famous people or intellectuals is what brought western society to this point and we honor Mrs Fiamengo the best, if we actually understand the topic. In her spirit we need to be critical about everything and read as much as possible.
@@mylesleggette7520 How many books extolling flat-earth beliefs have you read? How many on the virtues of FGM? How many proclaiming the validity of dowsing, astrology, etc.?
I read loads about it - and have since the days it was known as 'women's lib'. You can only speak for you. You sounds like feminists, who claim a Borg-like mentality for women. The gynocentric nature of our society makes it difficult to be heard.
I respect the 'gravitas' that professor Fiamengo brings to this issue. You could also say that an issue like this is not to be taken 'lightly'. Seriously though, good video.
Thank you for allowing other people to get an understanding of how bad it really is. I've been called crazy I get asked why I care. I'm like have you not looked around at the insufferable women that this movement has produced. I should have to say no more.
I listen to your videos as soon as they come out Professor the Fiamingo. Thank you so much for your beautifully written essays beautifully delivered by a beautiful person
I recently had surgery at a clinic in Toronto. Overweight patients were prescribed a weight loss program prior to their surgery. Those who failed to meet their goal were refused admission on surgery day, and told to lose weight and reschedule.
As a man pushing 60 who was 6'3 430lbs. I was fine when I was in my 20/30/40 and even early 50ies. Now at 340 and dropping. It is amazing how much better I feel. I am oddball. Yes, I am type 2 diabetic. Yet I have 20/20 vison and a blood pressure 118 over 68. My Cholesterol is a 113. I was suggesting to my younger coworker who as big as I was. Work with your Doctor. That Ozempic is incredible. I got called to Human Resources and given a final written warning about discrimination. Dude came up to me 2 days later. He said I hope you learned a lesson. I looked at him. I spoke. Unless you have something, job related to talk to me about. Leave me the fuck alone. Some miserable people. Just want to want to be miserable.
I was in the military for 20 years and for much of it in very good shape. When I retired on 2008 I gained over 50 lbs. This was in my mid 40s. I didn't like being that weight, but I lacked the motivation to change it, and I denied what my wife and mother saw very clearly. My lower legs were swelling up, my health was starting to suffer. Finally, one day, when I near tore my knee trying to do something I'd always been able to do, I had to confront that demon. Now I'm back to 195 and the difference is night and day.
@@Rikalonius Gained all mine post Military too. I laugh sometimes when i think I chuckled when I was told I was too thin post boot camp. 6'3 159 pounds and 2.7% body fat. LOL.
You've got to love how these authors preach Freedom for themselves & their chosen group, while telling everyone else how to live AND *think* , within the narrow confines of what they believe. Of course, they are hypocritical to the nth degree, right out of the gate, not even mentioning the fact that what they believe indicates severe psychoses (ignoring blatant reality, e.g. like denying gender, etc.), IMHO.
Won’t they want to get rid of gyms too? Then football fields, balls, swimming pools, bicycles? The only object we will be allowed to own will be a fridge full of feminist approved food.
When you get rid of the rest of those things, the fridge full of food will naturally follow them out the door and flip off the lights, leaving the societal mess on the floor. These women are in no way capable of surviving without prosperous infrastructure they did nothing to provide or upkeep.
@@StudioBrule I won't deny that! My gripe with the 'lens' metaphor is that it leaves out the notion of truth. If we're looking at things through a feminist 'lens' (or any other kind) then we're not checking the lens to see whether it's any good - we're not asking ourselves if our beliefs are true or not. Beliefs become cheap pairs of glasses that we can wear as we please.
Instead of hiring costly administrators and paying extra salary to department heads, why don't universities just install audio equipment at a central location and thenceforward settle all policy matters by measuring which policy proposal gets louder disapproval from passers-by? They do that now, only without the equipment.🤔
As a man who has struggled with body image issues and eating disorders my whole life I find it so offensive that men are left out of the body positivity concept completely yet feminists claim that fatphobia only affects women that men are the shallow ones that cause women's insecurities and that they never suffer insecurities themselves at least there's pushback against unrealistic beauty standards for women society has no problem objectifying men we banned super skinny runway models but not marvel superheroes no matter how many male bodybuilders drop dead trying to live up to society's fashion trends women can look however they want even when they're extremely unhealthy and you're not allowed to be honest about it because that's apparently misogyny but the same exact women will publicly shame men for their appearance constantly overweight men are seen as gross and disgusting and insinuated to somehow be morally corrupt overweight women are celebrated as rebellious for standing up against societies "unfair standards" even when the only "discrimination" they've ever faced as a doctor telling them they're gonna die if they don't stop binge eating! I know what it's like to be morbidly obese and my heaviest I was 420 lbs of course nobody chooses it and weight loss is not as easy as it seems there are many psychological biological and environmental factors at play so I don't condone fat shaming but I also believe in individual personal accountability the world doesn't have to accommodate your needs! was it a humiliating I couldn't find a chair to sit in in most places? yes! did I ever make that anyone else's problem since I knew it was my own damn fault? no! it's not that hard to understand! it is up to you to handle your own triggers if a scale bothers you you don't have to step on it but asking the world to remove the scale for those who need it is BS are nutrition labels triggering for some people of course but for people like me who need to track my macros to keep up with my weight loss so I don't go back to being unhealthy they're very convenient and eliminating them is not the answer there's a way to have compassion for those who are struggling without enabling their self-righteous delusions that their behavior is perfectly fine and it's the world that needs to change
Also I was the victim of medical fat phobia I had chronic conditions nobody bothered to dressing because it was so overweight that weren't cured by weight loss alone when I finally got somebody to acknowledge and treat those conditions it actually made losing weight much easier but many of my other conditions did improve drastically when I lost 200 lbs my health and happiness and ability to exist in the world is greatly improved which means there is hope for a better existence but they choose to remain stuck because they would rather paint themselves as helpless victims than do the work it takes to truly heal
Male Racism however supposedly ingrained by European males, absolutely melts in the face of an attractive 'female', especially those who have a halo of irrestable exotic about them. Curiously, a 'fat female' is reprehensible to me regardless of race and apparently to most males I've ever spoken to - but the rare exceptions there as experience has shown due to exceptional personality. No one has to be fat. Weighed 196 lbs when a 'stress heart attack' in late '99 got me. Tried to reform favored vices without much success but dropped weight to 160 for years and now weigh 135 to accurately balance a 3 inch loss in height. Finally phyiscally reached early middle age in my slide down to my second childhood. Cheers to all who understand these words above. Smoke, drink way, way too much for lack of company but look very fit and can still work for a whole hour at a time in fun sun. Such is old age.😊
Regarding the co-relation between body weight and poor health, there is no hard-and-fast causation, anymore than there is a hard-and-fast causation between smoking and poor health, but there is one hell of a strong co-relation. Anyhow, why all the great noise about weight scales in a gym? Fat people who are "body-positive" are not going to be frequenting a gym anyway.
Oh my gosh! Absolute feminist nonsense. I have a B.S. in Kinesiology, state certified K-12th grade Physical Education/Health teacher, and taught Physical Education in Elementary school for twelve years in Texas. We used the Fitnessgram fitness test and training program for our students. Science developed fitness testing is essential and we could modify fitness activities for students who were less physically fit, so they could have success in short-term goals that would build toward long-term goals. It's a very good program. The "Pacer Tape" cardiovascular endurance test / training is a great example that can be modified, so less-fit students can experience short-term success and gradually build endurance toward the long-term goal.
That's a great way to do things. The short term successes imbue motivation for even greater successes. The current crowd of activists don't want successes though. They hate the idea that something good has to be worked for.
The phrase "it is essential for scholars to campaign" inadvertently reveals one of the root causes of the problem. Scholars should objectively pursue knowledge for its own sake. Campaigning is for activists. On a side note -- f I had had more (indeed, any) colleagues like Prof Fiamengo, i might have stayed in academia. I can't wait for her full-length book on the real history of feminism (hint, hint)!
If you can't carry her off to safety (or to bed), she is too big. You still have to do your part, hit the gym, and meet her in the middle, but she has to do her part and put down that pizza she is stuffing into her face.
"The stigma associated with obesity is entirely social." This statement alone asserts that research undertaken in social science is completely valid, but research undertaken in medical science is totally bunk. How assured these people are of their own correctness is appalling, but I guess we shouldn't expect anything else of an anti-academic and anti-intellectual movement.
Watching the film of the Woodstock music festival is instructive. It presents a very large random sample of typical young people of the time (not athletes, Hollywood actors, etc.). It is immediately apparent that the young people of 1969 were much lighter than those of today - and they look so much healthier. This obvious observation rebuts Feminists' non-fact that people have no control over their weight. Diet clearly has consequences. (Well, duh.)
If there are no health consequences of obesity, then why doesn't NASA send obese astronauts to the moon? They would certainly be lighter on the moon. What happened when an obese astronaut tried to squeeze into the Command Module on the launch pad? There was a total eclipse of the sun.
There's a difference between stopping fat shaming and healthcare providers ignoring medical facts. The inflammatory disorders and atherosclerosis caused by Metabolic syndrome and all the damage caused by type 2 diabetes will bankrupt the health system if it gets too high.
I’m 59 and let myself go a bit. Decided 7 months ago to get back in shape. I’m down 45 pounds and I’m back running three miles, three times a week. I feel great, my clothes are actually big on me and I can do things much easier than I could before. We live in a society where being lethargic is fine because our modern society, non-agrarian and post-manufacturing, doesn’t require most to burn many calories to earn a living. Men are doing the jobs that DO require physical effort, but most women do not. Women aren’t going out and milking cows, snapping beans and picking corn. It’s all brought to our doorstep.
We are lazy, and we don’t want to take accountability for our health.
Delusion is in style.
This story validates my earlier assumptions of feminism that it does not benefit womanhood. Rather, it benefits to pockets and strokes the egos those most historically privileged amongst us!
As Paul Elam says, it's about women's perception of what what will benefit women, not the reality.
As men, we are mostly indifferent or somewhat unsympathetic towards feminism. But we NEVER read any of it.
Mrs Fiamengo does it for us. And in a sense we should be alert to it. This is how feminist, and per implication the women who identify with the movement, choose to talk to the outside world. However goofy and outlandish it may sound, this is the kind of speech that has more and more influence in the public sphere.
It needs a counter argument.
Please speak for yourself. Some of us do read of it. You have to know your enemy.
@@nocturnaljoe9543 This. You don't need to immerse yourself in the study of feminist ideologies, but to proudly claim that you have "NEVER" read any of it? Embarrassing...
@@mylesleggette7520 Blindly following politicians, famous people or intellectuals is what brought western society to this point and we honor Mrs Fiamengo the best, if we actually understand the topic.
In her spirit we need to be critical about everything and read as much as possible.
@@mylesleggette7520 How many books extolling flat-earth beliefs have you read?
How many on the virtues of FGM?
How many proclaiming the validity of dowsing, astrology, etc.?
I read loads about it - and have since the days it was known as 'women's lib'. You can only speak for you. You sounds like feminists, who claim a Borg-like mentality for women. The gynocentric nature of our society makes it difficult to be heard.
Bitter cat lady gains 200 pounds: "I'm a 10, you can't judge me just because I'm a whale. Also, this is healthy."
I respect the 'gravitas' that professor Fiamengo brings to this issue. You could also say that an issue like this is not to be taken 'lightly'. Seriously though, good video.
Thank you for allowing other people to get an understanding of how bad it really is. I've been called crazy I get asked why I care. I'm like have you not looked around at the insufferable women that this movement has produced. I should have to say no more.
There is a market for every grift, particularly within the University sector.
Fueled by government largess…
Love your videos, Professor!
I listen to your videos as soon as they come out Professor the Fiamingo. Thank you so much for your beautifully written essays beautifully delivered by a beautiful person
I recently had surgery at a clinic in Toronto. Overweight patients were prescribed a weight loss program prior to their surgery. Those who failed to meet their goal were refused admission on surgery day, and told to lose weight and reschedule.
As a man pushing 60 who was 6'3 430lbs. I was fine when I was in my 20/30/40 and even early 50ies. Now at 340 and dropping. It is amazing how much better I feel. I am oddball. Yes, I am type 2 diabetic. Yet I have 20/20 vison and a blood pressure 118 over 68. My Cholesterol is a 113. I was suggesting to my younger coworker who as big as I was. Work with your Doctor. That Ozempic is incredible. I got called to Human Resources and given a final written warning about discrimination. Dude came up to me 2 days later. He said I hope you learned a lesson. I looked at him. I spoke. Unless you have something, job related to talk to me about. Leave me the fuck alone. Some miserable people. Just want to want to be miserable.
Actually, his approaching you afterwards and taunting you is something that should have been reported to HR. Then file a lawsuit.
Letting yourself get that fat is an indictment of what kind of character you have as a man.
I was in the military for 20 years and for much of it in very good shape. When I retired on 2008 I gained over 50 lbs. This was in my mid 40s. I didn't like being that weight, but I lacked the motivation to change it, and I denied what my wife and mother saw very clearly. My lower legs were swelling up, my health was starting to suffer. Finally, one day, when I near tore my knee trying to do something I'd always been able to do, I had to confront that demon. Now I'm back to 195 and the difference is night and day.
@@Rikalonius Gained all mine post Military too. I laugh sometimes when i think I chuckled when I was told I was too thin post boot camp. 6'3 159 pounds and 2.7% body fat. LOL.
“be visible”
That made me laugh.
Obesity interferes with respiration. Visceral fat occupies space impeding the easy function of the diaphragm.
You've got to love how these authors preach Freedom for themselves & their chosen group, while telling everyone else how to live AND *think* , within the narrow confines of what they believe. Of course, they are hypocritical to the nth degree, right out of the gate, not even mentioning the fact that what they believe indicates severe psychoses (ignoring blatant reality, e.g. like denying gender, etc.), IMHO.
Won’t they want to get rid of gyms too? Then football fields, balls, swimming pools, bicycles? The only object we will be allowed to own will be a fridge full of feminist approved food.
You will eat Soylent. And you will enjoy it.
When you get rid of the rest of those things, the fridge full of food will naturally follow them out the door and flip off the lights, leaving the societal mess on the floor. These women are in no way capable of surviving without prosperous infrastructure they did nothing to provide or upkeep.
I'm fat phobic the same way I'm afraid of bulldozers running me over.
Impressive mental gymnastics among these people. But I suppose in the mind, there's not the complication of physics.
2:34 Anything that uses the metaphor of a 'lens' to see things through is guaranteed to be bollocks.
Every metaphor has its use, but feminism ruins everything it touches.
@@StudioBrule I won't deny that!
My gripe with the 'lens' metaphor is that it leaves out the notion of truth. If we're looking at things through a feminist 'lens' (or any other kind) then we're not checking the lens to see whether it's any good - we're not asking ourselves if our beliefs are true or not. Beliefs become cheap pairs of glasses that we can wear as we please.
Instead of hiring costly administrators and paying extra salary to department heads, why don't universities just install audio equipment at a central location and thenceforward settle all policy matters by measuring which policy proposal gets louder disapproval from passers-by? They do that now, only without the equipment.🤔
You are my second best Canadian.
Don't get too close, she will eat you.
As a man who has struggled with body image issues and eating disorders my whole life I find it so offensive that men are left out of the body positivity concept completely yet feminists claim that fatphobia only affects women that men are the shallow ones that cause women's insecurities and that they never suffer insecurities themselves at least there's pushback against unrealistic beauty standards for women society has no problem objectifying men we banned super skinny runway models but not marvel superheroes no matter how many male bodybuilders drop dead trying to live up to society's fashion trends women can look however they want even when they're extremely unhealthy and you're not allowed to be honest about it because that's apparently misogyny but the same exact women will publicly shame men for their appearance constantly overweight men are seen as gross and disgusting and insinuated to somehow be morally corrupt overweight women are celebrated as rebellious for standing up against societies "unfair standards" even when the only "discrimination" they've ever faced as a doctor telling them they're gonna die if they don't stop binge eating! I know what it's like to be morbidly obese and my heaviest I was 420 lbs of course nobody chooses it and weight loss is not as easy as it seems there are many psychological biological and environmental factors at play so I don't condone fat shaming but I also believe in individual personal accountability the world doesn't have to accommodate your needs! was it a humiliating I couldn't find a chair to sit in in most places? yes! did I ever make that anyone else's problem since I knew it was my own damn fault? no! it's not that hard to understand! it is up to you to handle your own triggers if a scale bothers you you don't have to step on it but asking the world to remove the scale for those who need it is BS are nutrition labels triggering for some people of course but for people like me who need to track my macros to keep up with my weight loss so I don't go back to being unhealthy they're very convenient and eliminating them is not the answer there's a way to have compassion for those who are struggling without enabling their self-righteous delusions that their behavior is perfectly fine and it's the world that needs to change
Also I was the victim of medical fat phobia I had chronic conditions nobody bothered to dressing because it was so overweight that weren't cured by weight loss alone when I finally got somebody to acknowledge and treat those conditions it actually made losing weight much easier but many of my other conditions did improve drastically when I lost 200 lbs my health and happiness and ability to exist in the world is greatly improved which means there is hope for a better existence but they choose to remain stuck because they would rather paint themselves as helpless victims than do the work it takes to truly heal
Male Racism however supposedly ingrained by European males, absolutely melts in the face of an attractive 'female', especially those who have a halo of irrestable exotic about them.
Curiously, a 'fat female' is reprehensible to me regardless of race and apparently to most males I've ever spoken to - but the rare exceptions there as experience has shown due to exceptional personality.
No one has to be fat. Weighed 196 lbs when a 'stress heart attack' in late '99 got me.
Tried to reform favored vices without much success but dropped weight to 160 for years and now weigh 135 to accurately balance a 3 inch loss in height. Finally phyiscally reached early middle age in my slide down to my second childhood.
Cheers to all who understand these words above.
Smoke, drink way, way too much for lack of company but look very fit and can still work for a whole hour at a time in fun sun.
Such is old age.😊
Regarding the co-relation between body weight and poor health, there is no hard-and-fast causation, anymore than there is a hard-and-fast causation between smoking and poor health, but there is one hell of a strong co-relation. Anyhow, why all the great noise about weight scales in a gym? Fat people who are "body-positive" are not going to be frequenting a gym anyway.
Exactly! This is all just about their constant envy and resentment. They always want to drag everyone else down to their level
Oh my gosh! Absolute feminist nonsense. I have a B.S. in Kinesiology, state certified K-12th grade Physical Education/Health teacher, and taught Physical Education in Elementary school for twelve years in Texas. We used the Fitnessgram fitness test and training program for our students. Science developed fitness testing is essential and we could modify fitness activities for students who were less physically fit, so they could have success in short-term goals that would build toward long-term goals. It's a very good program. The "Pacer Tape" cardiovascular endurance test / training is a great example that can be modified, so less-fit students can experience short-term success and gradually build endurance toward the long-term goal.
That's a great way to do things. The short term successes imbue motivation for even greater successes. The current crowd of activists don't want successes though. They hate the idea that something good has to be worked for.
The phrase "it is essential for scholars to campaign" inadvertently reveals one of the root causes of the problem. Scholars should objectively pursue knowledge for its own sake. Campaigning is for activists.
On a side note -- f I had had more (indeed, any) colleagues like Prof Fiamengo, i might have stayed in academia. I can't wait for her full-length book on the real history of feminism (hint, hint)!
As always, appreciate ya. Thanks for sharing.
yeah, the human skeleton is meant to carry an excess of 200+ LBS of leftover food waste, okay…
It is obvious that the only way you could measure a body without stigma,
is by by the
water displacement/noon shadowcast ratio..
With greetings from the sugar and fat industries.
If you can't carry her off to safety (or to bed), she is too big.
You still have to do your part, hit the gym, and meet her in the middle, but she has to do her part and put down that pizza she is stuffing into her face.
"The stigma associated with obesity is entirely social."
This statement alone asserts that research undertaken in social science is completely valid, but research undertaken in medical science is totally bunk.
How assured these people are of their own correctness is appalling, but I guess we shouldn't expect anything else of an anti-academic and anti-intellectual movement.
Watching the film of the Woodstock music festival is instructive. It presents a very large random sample of typical young people of the time (not athletes, Hollywood actors, etc.). It is immediately apparent that the young people of 1969 were much lighter than those of today - and they look so much healthier. This obvious observation rebuts Feminists' non-fact that people have no control over their weight. Diet clearly has consequences. (Well, duh.)
Idiocracy.
If there are no health consequences of obesity, then why doesn't NASA send obese astronauts to the moon?
They would certainly be lighter on the moon.
What happened when an obese astronaut tried to squeeze into the Command Module on the launch pad?
There was a total eclipse of the sun.
There's a difference between stopping fat shaming and healthcare providers ignoring medical facts. The inflammatory disorders and atherosclerosis caused by Metabolic syndrome and all the damage caused by type 2 diabetes will bankrupt the health system if it gets too high.
the woman in the pic died at 54 from diabetes
Thank God
This edit, with just the picture of fiamengo is a bit creepy. Hurts the channel. This needs to improve to get more traction.
Gay
Reading or listening without "pictures or video" is sadly, out of vogue. A sign of the times. Focus is the new IQ.
I liked the image it hits the issue of being fat.
Seventh