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Nov. 6th, 2013 06:55 amSigned up for a GD prevention study when I was pregnant and the first questionnare of three was ok. The second? Absurdly patronizing and fat-shamey. "did you know that being an obese fatty fat mcfatso fatterson increases your risk?" "Do family help you keep a good diet" on and on and on...I let rip in the comments section that it wasn't family's responsibility to police my diet and that not everyone who's obese is just too stupid to know that eating cake and candy makes you a fatass, as the thing seemed to imply.
I didn't do the follow up GD test because I think it's profoundly fucked up. I don't actually eat much sugar, and then giving me 100g of syrup to drink then being all alarmed that an hour later my poor body's trying to cope with that kind of sugar-glut? please. Bitch, you drink that shit and tell me. I've read a few sources that do seem to follow the line of thinking that way, that the human body really isn't all that capable of managing THAT much sugar at a go, and of course you'll get more positive tests.
Ah well, three questionarres, the last one due in a year or two so I can forget all about it. I noted I probably wouldn't have signed up if I'd known they were going to go fat shaming in the second one. Honest to fucking gods, it was offensive.
I didn't do the follow up GD test because I think it's profoundly fucked up. I don't actually eat much sugar, and then giving me 100g of syrup to drink then being all alarmed that an hour later my poor body's trying to cope with that kind of sugar-glut? please. Bitch, you drink that shit and tell me. I've read a few sources that do seem to follow the line of thinking that way, that the human body really isn't all that capable of managing THAT much sugar at a go, and of course you'll get more positive tests.
Ah well, three questionarres, the last one due in a year or two so I can forget all about it. I noted I probably wouldn't have signed up if I'd known they were going to go fat shaming in the second one. Honest to fucking gods, it was offensive.
