JustPearlyThings - March 18, 2023


Pearl On How fat shaming saved Her life

Topics
fat shaming
Hosted by
Hannah Pearl Davis
Mentioned
Dylan Mulvaney Krispy Kreme Pearl Chris Brian Deli Drew
Pearl DEBUNKS the ＂PATRIACHY＂ fallacy Married man drops Red Pill truths

Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

220.06

Word count

1,201

Sentence count

119

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

This week, I'm joined by comedian and podcaster Rebecca Traister to talk all things obesity. We discuss the internet's obsession with fat shaming Rebecca, her journey to losing weight, and how she dealt with the criticism she received.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
Topics generated with Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct.
Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
00:00:00.000 to the fat shaming. This is a great tweet. This is number two. Could you pull that up, Deli? It's
00:00:05.260 Pearl's tweet, which I loved. Let's pull it up. I have it here somewhere. Where did I put it?
00:00:12.040 Where did I put it? Oh, here we go. It says, thank you to the internet for fat shaming me
00:00:17.060 until losing 15 pounds this year. I'll keep fat shaming the whales to help them too. What I love
00:00:23.280 about this, though, is like everyone gets so offended when you talk about obesity. And here
00:00:28.140 you are saying the exact opposite. Is that an honest emotion you have? Yeah, no. Tell
00:00:34.600 me about what happened. Well, when I started the show, it's kind of like when you get on
00:00:39.080 camera, you see everything. And I was like, oh, I'm a little chunkier than I thought. And
00:00:45.060 I've never been fat or obese. Sorry, that's not true. I was obese by five pounds for two
00:00:53.320 months, and then I lost it. But when I started the show, I wasn't fat. I wasn't obese. But
00:00:57.760 I was like, I could cut back on my eating. And, you know, I'd get comments here and there
00:01:02.940 and I'd be like, ah, I should I should really work on that. So in the course of the year,
00:01:07.280 I wanted to lose 25 pounds. I only lost 15, but I'm on the way.
00:01:10.720 That's good. 15 is good. Yeah. And so and I had a lot of acne, too, when I started. And
00:01:16.100 so it's great. Thank you. Thank you. And I just had a lot of bad habits. So I just decided
00:01:21.300 to work on it. And my issue is whenever I fat shame the whales, they're like, you're not
00:01:25.660 thin enough to be fat shaming me. And I'm like, well, I get fat shamed, too. And you
00:01:29.620 work on it and you try to get better. But it's like fat people think they're above being
00:01:33.840 made fun of. I can be made fun of because I'm a ginger. Men can be made fun of for being
00:01:37.960 short. Everyone else can be made fun of. Why are you special? Why are you special? And
00:01:43.420 the worst part is you can change it. Men can't change being short. But you sure as hell can
00:01:48.700 change not eating 10 Krispy Kremes in a day, Rebecca. Well, the reason that they get away
00:01:55.780 with that is because society has now labeled obesity as healthy and with good reason, because
00:02:01.540 society remember all these media outlets and this is where you get into the matrix. But
00:02:05.140 all of these media outlets in large part are funded by pharma. And what helps pharma? What
00:02:10.060 helps you to become somebody who's dependent on medication for life and all this stuff? Well,
00:02:13.760 you have to be unhealthy. So now this new like obesity is the new healthy is being glorified
00:02:18.460 by media because they want an unhealthy population that's then relying on drugs, that's relying
00:02:23.300 on all these things, that's more likely to be depressed, that's more likely to be someone
00:02:27.900 who's not self-sufficient, a weaker society that you can control. It's all connected. And
00:02:32.620 women are just falling. What I think is really interesting about you, though, is it's not easy 1.00
00:02:37.380 to take the criticism and have that reaction. Like it's not. If for somebody to say like, oh,
00:02:43.100 you, you know, whatever, you're a little chunky, say they said or whatever. And for you to
00:02:47.740 say, oh, you know what, I am a little chunky. Let me stop doing that. You know, maybe I could do
00:02:51.300 that. That's not easy for people to do. How did what what do you think went right in your life
00:02:58.300 that you were able to have that reaction and not get offended, defiant, nasty, and then go eat a
00:03:03.500 donut? Well, I mean, I would get offended at first. I'd be like, oh, you know, get offended,
00:03:08.760 though, that what you just did. But then it's just kind of like, well, why did it hurt? Because
00:03:13.780 they're right. Yeah. Nothing hurts if they're not correct. That's right. You know, so I think I don't
00:03:21.500 know. I just was like, you know what? They're right. I want to do something about it. So I bought
00:03:24.600 this like meal plan from this guy called Cooking with Chris and he's on Twitter and he's actually
00:03:29.240 there was like probably the best meal plan I've ever bought. Sometimes I still go off it. That's why
00:03:32.560 I haven't lost 25, but but it was actually really good. It's hard when you travel. Traveling is not
00:03:38.620 friendly to, you know, I actually lose weight when I'm traveling, but it's because I'll be busy. I'll
00:03:44.680 be so busy that I don't eat enough to eat. Yeah. So it's like like a lot of times I'll gain it when
00:03:49.260 I get back because it's not it's not like done in a healthy way. You know, it's like you get back
00:03:53.640 and you got to like store up again. I know I get it. My biggest problem is I drink sugar coffee in the
00:03:57.880 morning, but I've quit. I'm now like roughly 20 ish days sober from coffee. Oh,
00:04:02.560 wow. That's hard to quit. It's like sugar. Yeah, it's hard to quit. But coffee is like
00:04:06.860 I know some people can drink it in like a healthy way. I'm just not that person. I like the milkshakes
00:04:12.080 in the morning. I like so if I'm going to drink coffee, I'm like there's no point in trying to
00:04:16.280 do it a healthy way because I won't drink it. Right. So that is well props to you for having that
00:04:21.060 reaction. Not a lot of people have that reaction and I don't know like what you looked like before.
00:04:26.920 I'm just looking at you now. You look great. But I think it's I think it speaks to character
00:04:30.840 to be able to like process something like even when I started on here and like people
00:04:35.840 were saying stuff to me like commentary wise when I was like in the in the space and I
00:04:40.660 was like, you know, with Rollo the first time I had to like kind of process that step back
00:04:44.380 and be like, well, let me think about what I just said. Like self. It's not easy to do
00:04:48.200 that because then you have to like admit you were wrong or admit you were doing something
00:04:50.780 in your life that wasn't good for you. Not easy. I want to get to Drew Fualo and Dylan Mulvaney.
00:04:55.620 You know Dylan Mulvaney. OK, let's go. I know the Drew girl. She's like the whatever 0.81
00:05:00.620 podcast is actually here to say thank you for reacting. It sets a bunch of hearts.
00:05:05.060 Oh, awesome. Love your show. Brian, we're trying to get you on. We you know that, though, you
00:05:09.560 know. OK, let's go to Drew Fualo. I was just banned on TikTok and we are demonetized on a
00:05:16.360 daily basis on this platform. If you want to help, please consider sending a super thanks
00:05:22.500 below. Every donation helps and it helps make what we do possible.