The elephant in the room. The ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.
I cannot even. I just cannot.
I knew Novo Nordisk wasn’t being altruistic acting like it cares about fat stigma, but WOW, they really aren’t even trying to hide this eugenicist agenda.
So I took the drug that is this campaign is about for diabetes management. When news came out that it was being approved as a weight loss drug at MUCH higher doses than for diabetes management, there was a sense of incredulity in online forums. A side effect of the diabetes drug was weight loss and I remember seeing someone post "yeah you lose weight cause you can't eat." It did bring my blood sugar under good enough control that I was able to get off of it in a few months but it was HORRID to be on. Nothing about this surprises me. The fact that they took a honestly horrid side effect of a drug and decided to market it tells me all I need to know about their intentions.
Incidentally, has The Mighty done anything beyond what you mentioned in your article regarding its relationship with fat-hating companies? The Mighty is HUGELY problematic in so many ways, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that they published your piece at all. I deliberately never click on links to The Mighty, but made an exception for your piece. Your piece was great! But I worry they’ll double down and ramp up the marketing activities to bury the important points you made.
They Editorial staff have promised not to do any more social media promoting it, but the executives still have the logo on the main website as a sponsor of their BS "anti-stigma" program.
Rudd Center moved to UConn in 2015. Rudd Center has some major issues but quite a bit of their work is still better than the typical garbage. I'd like to think that they will learn and change further.
The elephant in the room. The ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.
I cannot even. I just cannot.
I knew Novo Nordisk wasn’t being altruistic acting like it cares about fat stigma, but WOW, they really aren’t even trying to hide this eugenicist agenda.
So I took the drug that is this campaign is about for diabetes management. When news came out that it was being approved as a weight loss drug at MUCH higher doses than for diabetes management, there was a sense of incredulity in online forums. A side effect of the diabetes drug was weight loss and I remember seeing someone post "yeah you lose weight cause you can't eat." It did bring my blood sugar under good enough control that I was able to get off of it in a few months but it was HORRID to be on. Nothing about this surprises me. The fact that they took a honestly horrid side effect of a drug and decided to market it tells me all I need to know about their intentions.
Incidentally, has The Mighty done anything beyond what you mentioned in your article regarding its relationship with fat-hating companies? The Mighty is HUGELY problematic in so many ways, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that they published your piece at all. I deliberately never click on links to The Mighty, but made an exception for your piece. Your piece was great! But I worry they’ll double down and ramp up the marketing activities to bury the important points you made.
They Editorial staff have promised not to do any more social media promoting it, but the executives still have the logo on the main website as a sponsor of their BS "anti-stigma" program.
Rudd Center moved to UConn in 2015. Rudd Center has some major issues but quite a bit of their work is still better than the typical garbage. I'd like to think that they will learn and change further.
I certainly hope they will. And thanks for the reminder, I updated the piece to include their move to UConn!