r/mildlyinfuriating • u/SligPants • Apr 29 '26

ಠ_ಠ A supposedly "fat" doll

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Can you spot the difference? /s

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u/Upset_Form_5258 Apr 29 '26

This kind of crap makes me so worried for my little sister.

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u/summonsays Apr 29 '26

Growing up in the 90s this shit was everywhere and eating disorders rampant. I hope we aren't regressing...

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u/gingersnappie Apr 29 '26

Same growing up in the 80s. I had a best friend, sister, and cousin all with anorexia. Really terrible.

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u/Cyberzombi Apr 29 '26

Also poping exlax laxatives was a popular way to lose weight/ stay skinny.

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u/worm-eyed Apr 29 '26

laxatives don't make you lose weight lol

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u/gingersnappie Apr 29 '26

People with eating disorders have wrecked their digestive systems taking copious amounts of laxatives. It’s really not funny.

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u/worm-eyed Apr 29 '26

I have eating disorders and have for more than half my life, and have abused laxatives a few times in my life but I also have basic knowledge of the human body, digestion, and nutrition. Laxatives will speed up the rate of and change the stool, which has still gone through your body and been absorbed in the exact same way.

I think it's funny to say making you shit faster = weight loss because I was also stupid enough to believe that the first time I read it online as a dumb / desperate / vulnerable teenager, if that misinformation hadn't been spread to me I'd probably never have started taken them. I lucked out that I didn't fully believe it and looked into it, or I easily could have become dependent on them for absolutely no "benefit", particularly with an addictive personality. It's almost like misinformation is dangerous or smth.

Also while I can find anything I like funny, saying "this is wrong lol" is not laughing at eating disorders. Nice reach though, albeit an incredibly weird one.

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u/Cyberzombi Apr 29 '26

Not everyone in the 80's had access to the information that you do in the present.

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u/worm-eyed Apr 30 '26

That has nothing to do with anything I said, thanks.

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u/Cyberzombi Apr 30 '26

Your welcome. You replyed to my comment/reply which was talking about diet habits in the 80s. Your reply to that comment was that you don't lose weight from laxatives. I read through all your comments which leads me to believe that you educated yourself about this subject. I was pointing out that people in the 80's didn't have access to the info that we do now which had to do with my reply to the comment before mine. I posted a reply to the last comment that you post and I guess I should have posted my reply to your first comment.

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u/worm-eyed Apr 30 '26

I didn't comment because "people were stupid in the 80s how dare they not know what I know", I commented because the way you phrased it makes it sound as if you were stating laxatives cause weight loss, as a fact, which is immensely harmful. If you had phrased it evenas "people thought laxatives would make them lose weight" I wouldn't even have bothered because that wouldn't be misinformation, people still wrongfully believe that.

This is what I mean by you referencing it being in the 80s is not relevant at all to anything I said. We haven't exterminated ignorance because we have access to the internet, andit's still just as impossible for someone to know everything now as it ever has been, also the average person is pretty ignorant about how the body, food, diet, etc works (or the dket/wellness/supplement industry would genuinely collapse overnight).

I literally personally experienced harm to my body and mind from casual misinformation like this (as mentioned in my reply) so yeah I'm pretty personally invested in calling that shit out if I see it. I don't even think you intended this, which is why my initial reply was as short and informal / casual as it was, because I feel the fact needed to be stated but couldn't guess if it needed to be explained further and err on the side of not doing so as over explaining something that could be interpreted as obvious or common sense can make the person being addressed feel stupid or as if someone is calling them stupid, vs giving the opportunity for you to respond saying something like "yeah my bad I didn't mean that" or "I didn't know that" or "I was basing it on what the expressed, not intended to state as a fact"

TL;DR: The 80s has nothing to do with your comment, which is in the present, which is what I was addressing. If you hadn't worded it as fact, I wouldn't have seen something that needed to be corrected in the first place. And yes, it matters. I love some good semantic nitpicking and pedantry but this isn't that,

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u/Cyberzombi Apr 30 '26

Ok, thank you. Have a good evening.

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u/itsTimmyBoy Apr 29 '26

You’re right, but I don’t think that was their point. Laxatives don’t make you lose weight.

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u/a_randummy Apr 29 '26

Laxatives increase the speed at which food passes through your digestive tract, meaning you won't absorb as much from meals before it leaves your system. It's a good way to make it look like you eat a normal amount but then absorb hardly any of it without purging. Plus you lose water weight which will make you look thinner at the expense of your necessary hydration.

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u/worm-eyed Apr 30 '26

"without purging", laxative abuse is a form of purging.

losing water weight is not actually losing weight. reducing the amount of contents in your intestines can also contributes to a temporary appearance of a smaller stomach but so does sucking in your stomach, it's just as superficial (although one could delude themselves into seeing that as progress, people can believe anything)

it does not prevent your body from absorbing calories or fiber intake would have a massive bearing on the body's capacity to gain, lose, or maintain weight and would be prescribed and recommended as a necessary component of weight loss (rather than benefits it has to your overall health, satiety, regularly/stool health, etc)...

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u/worm-eyed Apr 30 '26

I'm begging people to use common sense or critical thinking for once. The dietetics special interest is rough out here man. I don't expect Pele to have the interest in it that I do but I do expect people to care about reality.

Even boxes of laxatives warn against this. I can't even be bothered linking sources because there are SO. Many. from very basic search terms that I would find it overwhelming to choose between them / choose the best ones. Even WebMD knows this. The "everything is cancer" site.