Ozempic is changing people's skin, say plastic surgeons

Re:Ozempic is changing people's skin, say plastic surgeons by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @06:45PM (#41240632)

I think it's pretty simple, unfortunately. A lot of folks have this visceral, instinctive horror of fat people, and instead of examining that, they convince themselves that what they actually despise is laziness and gluttony: inner vices expressed outwardly, like a medieval morality play.

But if there's a way to lose weight without major lifestyle change, it threatens that tidy moral barometer. Someone might look virtuous without actually being so. Cognitive dissonance ensues. So they hope and wish for anything to catch out and punish these "cheaters."

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Re:Ozempic is changing people's skin, say plastic surgeons by thefz on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @11:06AM (#41246980)

> A lot of folks have this visceral, instinctive horror of fat people

Because humans spent some hundred thousand years on earth with no fat human in sight, and only around 3-400 with the ultra obese. It's unnatural.

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Re:Ozempic is changing people's skin, say plastic surgeons by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @12:42PM (#41248032)

Case in point.

Cars, computers, and cellphones are unnatural. If you can get over those, you can get over recoiling in atavistic horror from people who don't meet your beauty standards.

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Re:Ozempic is changing people's skin, say plastic surgeons by thefz on Sunday August 18, 2024 @02:32AM (#41280559)

> Cars, computers, and cellphones are unnatural

They are not a part of, or the whole human body

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