Analogbullfrog

Lovely! Which coin do you speak of? (And which ones have mushrooms on them?)

Slim people hear this in response to eating healthy food, too. In my experience, people are genuinely impressed/inspired to see healthy meals, or feel guilty about consuming junk they brought with them (so their comments are actually to themselves, small reminders that this is perhaps how they ought to be eating).

I’m a woman, and most of the women my age (30s) view pregnancy as the source of a lot of body horror. I know I’d be a lot more interested in having a child if I knew for a fact that after giving birth I would have no chronic conditions. A lot can and does go wrong, even if it doesn’t result in death, and this is more and more common as average child-birthing age goes up.

That’s an interesting idea, although overweight people actually have faster metabolisms by virtue of being bigger.

Women react differently to things like intermittent fasting given the vastly different hormonal profile to men. I’m much like your ex (I can’t think properly until I feel full, which means a significant breakfast) and anecdotally I have noticed that men seem more likely to go for longer fasting periods. Women’s bodies really don’t like to think they’re starving.

Thank you for your responses. As a woman who grew up on the Internet (and is on the spectrum) I really appreciate you articulating the problems with jokes like that, because having argued with people online, I've learned that my reasoning was never well-constructed and convincing enough to change minds, and the often (usual?) aggressive backlash would just add to the growing pile of uneasiness. One learns it is safer to stay quiet.

I'm a video editor and artist interested in information and consciousness. I think editors and programmers actually have a lot in common in terms of what they do (dicing and combining data in creative ways), although the editors I know definitely don't see themselves that way.

The issue of recording and analysing women's responses to disease and medicine has been around for centuries - women have been aware of this for a long time, and it's finally starting to come to light. Historically, it's been easier to assume women are just smaller-sized men. One reason being that hormones have an enormous impact on the body and this was probably not understood properly until relatively recently, so progress has been slow.

Most likely these studies are not being woke - they are just not putting in the time and effort (and therefore expense) required to discover these distinctions.