Cats on a Diet

Has anyone written about the projection of diet culture and anti fatness onto animals? There’s so much anxiety about “over feeding” and “ideal weight” and it sounds no different than the anti-fat pseudoscience we have for humans my sister has put her cats on a diet because they are "o*erweight" and it's just like wtf....they are cats dude, just let them be

A Twitter screenshot shows a post criticizing the projection of diet culture and anti-fatness onto animals, followed by a reply about a sister putting her cats on a diet because they are “o*erweight.” The joke is an exasperated reaction to treating cats’ weight like a human body-image issue, with the censored word adding comedic emphasis. EN: A Twitter screenshot shows a post criticizing the projection of diet culture and anti-fatness onto animals, followed by a reply about a sister putting her cats on a diet because they are “o*erweight.” The joke is an exasperated reaction to treating cats’ weight like a human body-image issue, with the censored word adding comedic emphasis.

• @eternalclassic / 22927 2022-11-11