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Winking at the 7-Eleven Cashier and Breathing as Activism
from #250 - The New Shepard | The Tim Dillon Show · #250
4 min
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Tim builds out his own absurd examples of fat activism like winking at a 7-Eleven cashier while eating a Big Bite, then reacts incredulously as the activist claims breathing itself counts as activism.
- The speaker defines a well-placed wink to a cashier as fat activism.
- Tim describes eating a microwave cheeseburger in 7-Eleven and winking at the cashier as an act of activism.
- The speaker explains fat activism can involve changing laws, conversations, wearing something good, or refusal of dominant cultural values.
- Fat activism is embedded in daily life—in how one walks, talks, and thinks—not a separate uniform or outfit.
- The speaker makes homemade magazines and contributes to fat studies journals and readers.
- She claims her activism can be something as simple as breathing or thinking.
- Tim pushes back: if breathing counts as activism, doesn't that prove being fat is unhealthy?
- He presses further: if simply breathing is activism, doesn't that suggest an unhealthy lifestyle?
- Tim concludes the segment, saying fat activism is apparently everything and nothing.