Uhm. No.

[la_vie_noire]

The shit, Feministe. What the shit.

Do you fucking know what is Celiac disease? I have at least three friends who have it. One of them is very close to me and my classmate, and she ALWAYS has problems finding accessible and cheap food for her; we just were discussing the other day how it was really bad that Supermarkets here don't even have Gluten-free bread. The woman has SERIOUS PROBLEMS when she eats gluten and she has to avoid it completely. Seriously, we even have activities about Celiac Diseases (and other autoimmune diseases) at my faculty. Because it is a serious disorder. ("Only 1% of American have it! And that sucks" uhm, okay.)

You really, really don't know shit.

(Also, what is the shit about policing other people diets? "A lot of people CLAIM to be gluten intolerant!" 1) And? 2) You obviously live in a place where gluten-free bread/whatever is easy to find.)

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[surpassingly]

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. lksdhflskdhflksf I don't even have the words.

[la_vie_noire]

Yeah, pretty much. A big... uhg.

[keeva]

That post is fucked up, the comments to that post are fucked up, and the comments by Jill, the original poster, are the most fucked up.

[la_vie_noire]

Jill is... a woman that writes things that I find... lets just call them problematic a lot of the time.

[the_future_modernes]

Was she for real trying to say that people go gluten free because they want to restrict their food intake? What is WRONG with this dumpling head?

[buria_q]

i'm stealing dumplinghead. and uh, maybe she thought the post would go nicely with her meditation on "man shorts"?

[the_future_modernes]

man shorts

*blink*

*blinkblink*

*fights inclination to find out what fresh hell this is*

[la_vie_noire]

Ahaha. It was some... strange article once there. I don't even know.

[la_vie_noire]

Great meditations that woman has!

[trouble]

I'm not going to look because I don't need the headache (and plus I blocked Feministe and it's a hassle to unblock it).

My friend has a wheat intolerance. Do you know how many foods have hidden wheat in them? Twizzlers, which are a kind of red liquorish, have wheat in them. It took her a very very long time to get a doctor to diagnose her because it seemed that she was just allergic to every random thing.

[la_vie_noire]

It's good that you blocked it though.

Yes. But for her it's all apparently "bullshit!".

[bravecows]

“I’m gluten intolerant” is, in many circles, a much more acceptable reason to forgo bread or pasta than “I’m trying to stay skinny” or “I’m on a diet.”

I just don't believe this is true. Why would you use this dodge anyway since loads of people will apparently disbelieve you?

And WTF, why does it even matter if people don't want to eat bread and pasta? Why doesn't she get some lactase pills if she's lactose intolerant? URGH THIS ANNOYS ME. I'm all for eating whatever you want without worrying about it, but if you're actually getting sick over it then "I might be lactose intolerant but I don't care~" is as stupid a dodge as "I'm gluten intolerant because I want to be skinny".

[la_vie_noire]

The point is... if people have to "make up" they are on a diet, it's probably due to people like this, who would shame them anyway.

But it's really worse when someone starts policing people with disorders to find who is "the liar" and "the one who is really in pain" because they avoid... wheat.

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[longmagpieroads]

Oh man, this article is everything I hate about people's perceptions about food allergies. I have a corn allergy and...yeah the amount of eye rolling and questioning I get when I go out to the supermarket or out to eat is ludicrous.

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[la_vie_noire]

Yes. And these things aren't exactly helping.

[laurus_nobilis]

I just... what the hell. I have no words.

Gluten-free food =/= no bread and pasta. Really. Really.

[la_vie_noire]

Yeah. But explain that to a lot of people who are already very ignorant about these diseases, and then these notions are instilled about people who avoid wheat.

[stoneself]

i don't even know where to start.

i have a friend w/ gluten intolerance. i can see what happens when he eats gluten. we get to navigate those waters together. how did the author turn gluten intolerance into a kind of hypochondria?

is it just me is she centering a real disease on her personal concerns about food disorders?

if this was about people using real diseaseS to mask eating disorders, why just stick with the gluten issues? what is this all about? did someone make her able privileged life difficult by needing to find a meal that was gluten free? did the author interact with someone who needs a gluten free diet and didn't meet the author's standard of health, and when she mentioned her opinion did she get schooled?

[la_vie_noire]

did someone make her able privileged life difficult by needing to find a meal that was gluten free? did the author interact with someone who needs a gluten free diet and didn't meet the author's standard of health, and when she mentioned her opinion did she get schooled?

Seriously.

Because everyone knows it is SO healthy to start to make lists about, "who is really sick, and who is faking to lose weight!"

Celiac people and people with food allergies needs these trivializing SO much. (And wasn't a feminist thing not to judge other people and their bodies and whatever they do with them as long it doesn't hurt anybody?)

[parlance]

Ugh, why did I look. So she's a doctor now? WTF.

[la_vie_noire]

Well, she is seriously concerned about people who "pretend" to have wheat intolerance.