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Plus-sized* feminist discusses ‘systems’
“Plus-sized”* being a polite euphemism here for “morbidly obese”; the lady likely singlehandedly exceeds weight limits on non-freight elevators.
Anyway, she has a novel systems theory — these people love talking about systems — that sounds very much like it got cooked up in a Gender and Women’s Studies seminar to justify her personal vendetta to blame society for being fat:
Women hate men as a system, men hate women as people. And it's like when we say we hate men, we are really saying we hate the patriarchy. We really hate the system that keeps men in power and keeps men harming us. Men hate us as people. Men hate us individually. Sometimes people are like why are you so angry about the patriarchy, Kristen? I don't think people are aware of like the level and the quantity of things that their fathers and brothers and grandfathers and friends and boyfriends and husbands have been saying to me for, like, 13 years constantly, every day. I am not overreacting. I am reacting appropriately.
Ultra-porker feminist explains man-hating "as a system" pic.twitter.com/LXItOXThuw
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) March 15, 2026
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Yes, yes, that’s all very impressive, Kristen.
My modest rebuttal:
The rub here— you know, like the thing your thighs do when you walk — is that I don’t actually believe you hate men “as a system” or whatever abstract, theoretical oppression of women the “patriarchy” exerts.
I think you hate all the men down to the cellular level who have ever not been sexually interested in you because you weigh at least 300 pounds, which people are generally evolutionarily designed to not find attractive.
I think that, instead of taking all of that energy and pouring it into trying to do something about your situation, the path of least resistance is to turn your sense of rejection into a Social Justice™ cause, thereby making yourself the victim and alleviating yourself of any personal responsibility.
Or whatever — that’s probably just The Patriarchy™ monster inside of me talking.
‘Suppressed rage’ making women sick?
Via The Independent (emphasis added):
According to a 2020 study, autoimmune diseases disproportionately affect women – accounting for nearly 80 per cent of cases. A separate study from 2021 showed that women also face higher rates of anxiety, PTSD and anorexia. As someone with both an autoimmune disease and anxiety, I found this information fascinating.
Then, as if the TikTok algorithm had read my thoughts, I was served a video titled “unprocessed anger is making you sick.” It got me wondering, could a major factor behind these statistics be not just biological but behavioural? Specifically, could suppressed anger be contributing to women’s declining health?
Like many women, I’ve struggled with expressing anger. Therapy has helped me recognise how deeply ingrained this issue is – women are conditioned to self-silence, to be caretakers while keeping quiet and polite. Anger, in particular, is seen as a masculine emotion, but it’s something we all experience and should be able to express in healthy, regulated ways. When we don’t express it, does it then manifest in our bodies as illness?...
The idea that bottled-up anger can affect physical health resonates with many women. Sarah, 37, from London, was diagnosed with pernicious anaemia at 21 after struggling with anorexia. Later, at 34, she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia following multiple emotional and physical traumas. “A recurring theme was the overwhelming sense that I wasn’t being heard,” she says. “The more I fought for support, the less I received, leading me to retreat into silence.”
“The anger I felt – toward friends, family, perpetrators and society – had nowhere to go. It settled in my body, manifesting as pain in my gut, chest, shoulders and throat. I realised this pain was somatic, a physical manifestation of unprocessed emotions. To release it, I turned to ecstatic dance, massage, diaphragmatic breathing, body scanning and grounding techniques. Sometimes, after an intense session, I cry and physically feel the trapped emotion leaving my body.”
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The theory of the connection between emotional baggage and physical illness is actually plausible, in that the mind and body are likely far more intertwined than the sciences have been able to empirically measure up to this point in time.
The question, though, is: what is the source of all of this “suppressed rage”?
Could a major, if not primary, factor not be the culture of victimization and resentment that women are indoctrinated into in the West?
