I've heard a rumor that Dylann Mulvaney is being set up to an hero and become the trans George Floyd. Jazz could potentially get their first. Jeanette would be so proud.
There's little chance that such a blatant narcissist would do us that favour.
"Mulvaney didn't kill himself."
Although the direction around the early show does seem to point towards an attempt at a positive representation of a child's "gender journey", TLC specialise in "freak shows with plausible deniability about them being freak shows" and that's exactly what they got.
Sander, someone telling you "You're not even in shape, you've gotten chubby" is not a microaggression, it's just regular aggression. They're openly insulting you. (Also hashtags don't work on Substack, you are terrible at being a social media mogul).“You have a nice dad bod.”
As someone who always promotes body positivity, I constantly receive comments about my body, shape, and size. It might come from someone who is trying to flirt with me. Or it might come from a friend trying to tell me that I look good. Since having a “dad bod” is something many people seem to compliment, I used to take it as one. I’d feel good when someone described me as filling in nicely and looking like a hot dad. It wasn’t until I started receiving more directly hateful comments about my body that I realized that comments such as “dad bod” were micro-aggressions that didn’t make me feel good.
The Backstory
Let me break it down. First off, for the large majority of my life, I always wanted a six-pack. I thought that if I had a six-pack, I would be happier. Despite working out five days a week for many years, I could never seem to get rid of some of my belly fat. Why? Because sometimes, genetics don’t work in your favor, and I was making myself unhappy to try to get the six-pack. Once I started to focus more on staying fit instead of trying to get a six-pack, I thought that “dad bod” was the following best compliment I could receive. If I couldn’t be the guy with the rock-hard abs, I wanted to have at least some sort of “positive” label. Once people started commenting things such as “You’re not even in shape,” “You’ve gotten chubby,” and more, I realized that any direct comments comparing me to other people were micro-aggressions. I’m not a dad, and even if I was a dad, every dad comes in different shapes, sizes, and forms. Progress, goals, and genetics are different for everyone, so I no longer want to be compared to anyone else.
The Lesson
The lesson of the story is this: You set your own goals, standards and expectations for yourself. If you’re feeling healthy and proud of your progress, then that should always be more important to you than getting a six-pack, meeting society's perception of a “dad body,” or trying to meet any other mainstream idea about “the perfect body.” Society is full of comparisons and standards that make us focus on the external and forget how amazing each of our bodies is. It can be tough to overcome your insecurities but know that your body is beautiful in its truest form. Not one person on the planet has the same body, and there are no “golden rules” for what type of body is better than others. It's important to remember that our bodies are not just objects to be judged or evaluated based on external appearances - They are the vessels that allow us to live, love, and experience all that life has to offer. So let's start loving our bodies for all that they are and all that they do for us. Whether you have body fat, are tall or short, every body is perfect just the way it is. Be confident and proud of your body - it’s the only one you got#BeProud #BeAuthentic #BeYou #BodyPositivity
It's funny, some of the stuff he says in these articles would be good advice for a Type A overachiever - don't be so driven, allow yourself time to think, don't make yourself so beholden unto others etc etc. But that is not good advice for a man who's never achieved anything, it's just "embrace mediocrity".
Abilify is a hell of a drug.
Yes, Sanders, it's all just the genetic lottery. It has nothing to do with you living at home and eating whatever garbage your Mom provides, and drinking beer several times a week.
I personally don't think this is the case because he seems to have developed a food addiction in secondary school, sometime between age 13 and 16. When he got his driver's licence, the first thing he used it for was fast food binges. That was long before before Jeanette started telling the whole world her son is on "a cocktail of psychiatric drugs".
In appearance he has a lot in common with the other puberty-blocked boys NikkieTutorials and Kim Petras. Castrati chimici.
Is it transphobic to run a comb through your hair?
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I think you mean confused teens who are starting puberty blockers and hate their parents.
I'd like to know who prompted Sanders to become a life coach. - He is utterly devoid of original thoughts or actions, so I'm guessing either his mother or someone from TLC told him to do it.
I honestly think he fell into it, because he started being a vocal "trans ally" on social media and exclusively posting that stuff but got told to knock it off a bit for "speaking over" trans people, so he switched to general positivity (it's also a bit of a cope, because he makes various posts about how depressed he is and how he "overcame" it), combined with getting involved in CheckIn. I don't think his family encouraged this because they've (rightly) mocked him for his social media "career".
Yeah he even has visible abs some of the time, he just doesn't cut to get that low body fat percentage. The only reason he gets subjected to scrutiny because he produces workout content and was trying to be a fitness influencer for a while (and also tried to make "shirtless Sander" a meme and never put a shirt on). It's worth noting the man is only 25 and he's struggling to keep the pounds off, so it'll be interesting when his metabolism starts slowing down in his late 20s-early 30s.
