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To end fatphobia, we need to dismantle Western civilization, says Philly therapist Sonalee Rashatwar
The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | July 3, 2019 | Cassie Owens

Posted on 07/08/2019 3:44:30 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

Sonalee Rashatwar hadn’t planned on being a therapist growing up. Her career path, she explained while sitting in the waiting room of Radical Therapy Center, the practice she co-owns in West Philadelphia, just kind of happened.

Rashatwar, now 31, endured an abusive relationship in her early 20s. After college, she started volunteering for a domestic-violence response team, an experience that showed her that she enjoyed working with other people who had lived through traumas.

“All of my work is to better understand what I’ve experienced,” said Rashatwar, who graduated from Temple University in 2011. “It’s almost like I’m healing younger versions of myself by trying to find language to describe what happened.”

As the fat-positivity movement has gained momentum, so, too, have debates around how fat folks should lead healthy lives. Rashatwar, though, considers how sizeism is affected by racism, misogyny, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism, and she counsels people against intentional weight loss.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: civilization; fatphobia; mgtow; mooo; redpill
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
She was abused so now she's making a career out of abusing everybody else.

21 posted on 07/08/2019 4:12:47 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: LukeL

Uh-huh. And they drive nice, new trucks around, looking for that meal. I haven’t been past the elementary school lately. They’ve done the free lunch in the summer thing, in years past. Usually a lot of fat Mexicans in line.


22 posted on 07/08/2019 4:13:40 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: RoosterRedux

But eating bowl after bowl of rice and pasta is healthy?


23 posted on 07/08/2019 4:18:06 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I’m ok with fatphobia and western civilization.


24 posted on 07/08/2019 4:18:30 AM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: BitWielder1

And she intends to get fat off of it!


25 posted on 07/08/2019 4:18:31 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The poor thing! Bless her heart, she’s a nut case.


26 posted on 07/08/2019 4:22:39 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Another fattie, who is dying, trying to force a notion of what makes a woman sexy/beautiful on normal men. Stay in both your lanes, Shamu.

Where is the campaign to convince normal women that Micheal Moore(politics aside) is just as sexually exciting for woman as Chris Hemsworth or Ryan Reynolds?

27 posted on 07/08/2019 4:24:50 AM PDT by deadrock
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Cue in the musical theme for the Twilight Zone....

What a nutcase.

28 posted on 07/08/2019 4:25:51 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Point her at these two:

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231343

http://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=236254


29 posted on 07/08/2019 4:29:08 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: deadrock
Chris Hemsworth or Ryan Reynolds

I had to look them up, as I hadn't heard of either of them. Just demonstrates how old I'm getting.
30 posted on 07/08/2019 4:29:14 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: Caipirabob

I don’t understand. If too much food is her problem, she can move to Cuba or Somalia.


31 posted on 07/08/2019 4:29:20 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: LukeL
My friend told me recently that, when her husband came home from his most recent hospital visit (another heart attack), she asked him what he would like for dinner (his first home cooked meal in a few days).

He said "chili."

She painstakingly told me how she prepared a big pot of her famous "low fat" chili with chicken and lots of veggies instead of beef, sausage, and/or pork.

I (being polite) said, "Mmm, sounds good."

She said, "Well, he (her husband) seemed to like it. There were no leftovers."

32 posted on 07/08/2019 4:33:20 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Ok then, how about Brad Pitt or Robert Redford.

I am a normal man, so I don't know what makes a man sexually attractive to women. But I am going to guess 400 lbs of blubber 'aint one of them.

I will leave that to the normal women to proclaim, and I guess, that is the point.

33 posted on 07/08/2019 4:34:25 AM PDT by deadrock
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If the sodomite agenda hadn’t reached the “you must be sexually attracted to a dude in a dress or you are a bigot” phase, if ignore this but.

They’ll probably succeed in taking skinny kids away from good parents and making them fat.


34 posted on 07/08/2019 4:35:37 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I think dieting is just less effort than dismantling Western Civilization.


35 posted on 07/08/2019 4:35:55 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Being fat at 30 is not a problem in itself.

But 30 year old fat people age into 50 and 60 year old fat people and then the medical issues will explode exponentially.

Being fat makes everything harder and sometimes impossible when you get older.

36 posted on 07/08/2019 4:36:32 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: RoosterRedux

A friend’s wife is a nurse. I saw a bag of pork rinds in the kitchen. She said something about trying the Atkins diet. I saw her eat a container of Mac and cheese and some Hostess cupcakes. Don’t know if she ate the diet food later, or not.

My mom, also a nurse, commented when Dr. Atkins died, “I’d like to see those autopsy results.” I said “ Why? The guy slipped and fell shoveling snow in his eighties. “


37 posted on 07/08/2019 4:39:05 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Philadelphia has the most fat people congregated in one area in the USA. Go to any event in that city, or sit at any area mall, and watch all the obese people (especially women) waddle around. It’s epidemic!


38 posted on 07/08/2019 4:39:24 AM PDT by Russ (I)
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To: RoosterRedux

“turkey” chili aint chili.


39 posted on 07/08/2019 4:40:08 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Caipirabob

She has more than Western Civilization to deal with. East Asian cultures think she is a disgusting land whale, too.


40 posted on 07/08/2019 4:42:37 AM PDT by beef (Caution: Potential Sarcasm - Process Accordingly)
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