Jia Tolentino

If you can radically change people's relationship to fullness by one injection, then maybe it wasn't something that everyone should have been judging. You know, then very clearly it's not something that deserved decades of moral, a century, like a full century of moral condemnation by like the entire beauty industry, right? Of course, it doesn't seem to have led there at all.

If you can radically change people's relationship to fullness by one injection, then maybe it wasn't something that everyone should have been judging. You know, then very clearly it's not something that deserved decades of moral, a century, like a full century of moral condemnation by like the entire beauty industry, right? Of course, it doesn't seem to have led there at all.

And I think, I mean, I have no real predictions other than the fact that, you know, one thing about GLP-1 drugs is you, In the vast majority of cases, as soon as you stop taking them, your body reverts to how it was before. So the weight loss lasts as long as you take them, basically.

And I think, I mean, I have no real predictions other than the fact that, you know, one thing about GLP-1 drugs is you, In the vast majority of cases, as soon as you stop taking them, your body reverts to how it was before. So the weight loss lasts as long as you take them, basically.

You gain it back, yeah.

You gain it back, yeah.

Right. Dieting slows your metabolism. And that's one of the reasons that fat phobia leads to obesity very directly. And so, you know, I think I think we have yet to see the wave of what happens when people come off of this and reckon with the sort of.

Right. Dieting slows your metabolism. And that's one of the reasons that fat phobia leads to obesity very directly. And so, you know, I think I think we have yet to see the wave of what happens when people come off of this and reckon with the sort of.

exit plan if there is one or the sort of lifetime use for the for the for the sort of like beauty use case you know yeah and i don't know what that'll look like i don't know how people will talk about it or how open it'll be um it still doesn't seem like this is something that people talk about frankly when it comes to their own use of it and i don't know it'll be interesting to see if and when and how people ever do

exit plan if there is one or the sort of lifetime use for the for the for the sort of like beauty use case you know yeah and i don't know what that'll look like i don't know how people will talk about it or how open it'll be um it still doesn't seem like this is something that people talk about frankly when it comes to their own use of it and i don't know it'll be interesting to see if and when and how people ever do

I think this has been an incredibly interesting story in part because I don't know if you have felt this within your own sort of group chats versus professional networks, but there's a big difference in the way people are talking about this in private and the way that they're talking about it in public. And that always strikes me as the right situation for someone to try to step in and merge them.

I think this has been an incredibly interesting story in part because I don't know if you have felt this within your own sort of group chats versus professional networks, but there's a big difference in the way people are talking about this in private and the way that they're talking about it in public. And that always strikes me as the right situation for someone to try to step in and merge them.

I think this has been an incredibly interesting story in part because I don't know if you have felt this within your own sort of group chats versus professional networks, but there's a big difference in the way people are talking about this in private and the way that they're talking about it in public. And that always strikes me as the right situation for someone to try to step in and merge them.

I mean, I remember I was covering sexual assault, like, the couple of years pre-Me Too and afterwards, because that felt like, you know, another thing where there was this large social understanding of something being the way that it is, and then with the sort of public discourse lagging behind it, and then an explosive event that tried to merge the two.

I mean, I remember I was covering sexual assault, like, the couple of years pre-Me Too and afterwards, because that felt like, you know, another thing where there was this large social understanding of something being the way that it is, and then with the sort of public discourse lagging behind it, and then an explosive event that tried to merge the two.

I mean, I remember I was covering sexual assault, like, the couple of years pre-Me Too and afterwards, because that felt like, you know, another thing where there was this large social understanding of something being the way that it is, and then with the sort of public discourse lagging behind it, and then an explosive event that tried to merge the two.

And I was interested in that, you know, the mainstream media, of which I am a part, and politicians, everyone was giving these very sort of performatively somber and reverent sort of like, this is an appalling, inexplicable, devastating loss of human life. And then, you know, social media is just full of, you know, the UnitedHealthcare had to close comments on Facebook.

And I was interested in that, you know, the mainstream media, of which I am a part, and politicians, everyone was giving these very sort of performatively somber and reverent sort of like, this is an appalling, inexplicable, devastating loss of human life. And then, you know, social media is just full of, you know, the UnitedHealthcare had to close comments on Facebook.

And I was interested in that, you know, the mainstream media, of which I am a part, and politicians, everyone was giving these very sort of performatively somber and reverent sort of like, this is an appalling, inexplicable, devastating loss of human life. And then, you know, social media is just full of, you know, the UnitedHealthcare had to close comments on Facebook.

And there were thousands and thousands of like, ha ha, cry laugh emoji. It just struck me as really interesting that the reaction was so sharp. Were there any of the sort of memes or...