Daniel Moser
Never gets old
Jun 14, 2023 at 8:44pmJaxBeach.Social Crossposter
Show threadAskASwissJun 14, 2023
@dmoser well, I‘m a #cyclist and obese and unhealthy (I have a chronic illness), go to doctors all the time.
So yes this got old very quickly!
It would be possible to illustrate this without such an #ableist and #fatphobic derogatory comment
Show threadTinaJun 15, 2023
@AskASwiss @dmoser I hate this one as well. It should have stopped at "parking". I've never owned a car, I walk and cycle almost everywhere (otherwise it's public transport). Yet, I'm still fat. But that doesn't say anything about my health.
Show threadAskASwissJun 15, 2023
@spinni81 exactly! So many people are obese but also fit and healthy. And this bugs the hell out of some people as they have the stereotype that fat people must be lazy and couch potatoes and constantly eat unhealthily. It upsets their whole world view where they feel superior. But there are so many fat people who eat healthy foods and so many thin people who don't. It is such a damaging stereotype! @dmoser
Show threadTinaJun 15, 2023
@AskASwiss You are absolutely right. Habits are much more important than weight alone. Besides, a lot of things that influence health are completely out of our control like pollution or noise or experiencing discrimination. @dmoser
Show threadskyJun 15, 2023

@sy @dmoser I love much of this but also I really dislike the way that fatphobia is embedded in a lot of cycling activism, and the ableism of it. ("If you'd just bike instead of eating gross food you'd lose weight and stay healthy!!")

Bikes and trikes can be so good for people with disabilities to get around! And bicycle activism will be more effective if we don't alienate people who don't fit our mental model of a 'fit cyclist'!

Show threadanubis2814Jun 15, 2023
@sky @sy @dmoser Our sedentary world created by our terrible infrastructure is the source how it starts in the first place. Once you gain weight, then its really hard to lose it, adipose cells multiply and it takes extra work to keep the weight off. This could prevent things in a healthy manner that does not lead to eating disorders either way. Also the only way to burn off cortisol is through movement, and low-moderate constant chronic levels of cortisol boost apatite, most often for the easiest to process foods, caused by inactivity which many of us have to deal with due to exhaustion and being trapped at our computers and in our cars. . The phrasing does ring of some fatphobia, its probably a bit older but the argument is still sounds even if its poorly worded from a less enlightened view unaware of how fat shaming just makes obesity worse from increased depression.
Show threadUniversal Basic FriendJun 15, 2023
@dmoser They do not buy drugs [citation needed]
Show threadstrwbrryJenJun 15, 2023
@dmoser glad to know my life choices are ruining a useless economy. bike FTW
Show threadAnna MiriamsdochterJun 15, 2023
@dmoser could we please skip the fat shaming? Fat people are cyclists too and we should celebrate that instead of excluding them and making them invisible.
Show threadgurgelgubbeJun 15, 2023

@dmoser Quite old, quite dumb actually. It's fine for the first few sentences regarding the car-free lifestyle not stimulating the economy but it's down hill from there on forward.

It's fine to promote healthy behavior, but this reeks of elitist overtones. Health is neither, simply put, a lottery of genetics nor is it a rational choice. It's both at the same time in a stew of grand complexity beyond one single individuals mind being able to comprehend the full picture with much success. IMHOlol