sometimes it's words you got to say and sometimes it's elements you got to display outside the bounds of a cohost post

Rechoost to go to the moon…not because it is easy, but because it is hard

Food is neutral, it is neither good nor bad. Or rather it is all three. It is a beautiful and rich blend of culture, history, connection and flavor, and it is harmful in excess or deficit, and in the end it simply is fuel we use to survive.

Understanding this dialectic is a cornerstone of recover and of recovering a restorative peaceful relationship with food.

Building a space that validates the notion that food is bad, placing even it's mere mention behind the same screen one places racism or violence or things one could get fired for seeing at work, is extremely extremely ill-advised. It runs counter to every aspect of the recovery process

Ideally we would have an opt out tag system so people could make that decision themselves, and although I think it would be the wrong one it would still be their choice, instead of this opt-in culture we have here means that any change like this has an impact on the culture of the space. This is a moment that reminds me that the developers and initial users of this site are from a wildly different culture to my own lol

This is something that scared me while on mastodon, but I joined late so could do nothing to speak out (and I was still very anorexia at the time so, dangerously, appreciated the space for that at first). But cohost is new, and the pressure for this content warning is new as well (I didn't see it once before masto people started making accounts), so I feel a responsibility to say something

This isn't a "we need to exposure therapy people by force" this is a "creating a culture where people feel the need to hide food fosters a mindset that is extremely dangerous"

Also this doesn't apply to any other CW topic, maybe it does but I can't speak to those issues, this is a dynamic unique to eating disorders

Anyways, do whatever, you're not A Bad Person either way and if you have a friend who asked for this then yeah of course, but also please talk to that friend about it more than just "yeah sure of course".