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Why is it some foods it seems are so dreadfully that merely mentioning them or expressing enjoyment for them gets me warned they 'are fattening'? Do they have some kind of radical, permanent overnight effect on biology? I think if that were the case, in this culture they would be long since banned.

It's very frustrating, that this seems to be the only lens people are capable of viewing food through: 'fattening' (= bad), 'non-fattening' (= good). What ever happened to eating for enjoyment? I don't care if food has been placed into a particular moral category. I don't want to care, and I do believe people's bodies will largely sort themselves out.

But I am not entirely impervious to peer pressure. It frustrates me a lot to look at some food or drink item and have my first thought be "that's fattening". Hard not to, when that is the only context everyone around you regards food in, vocally and frequently. At this point, please consider an additional tear-filled rant at culture and advertising destroying people's ability to enjoy even simple things, and an inability to find escape from it.

At least I can and do still enjoy the 'banned foods', but I'd be happier with that rubbish entirely out of my head.

(cross-posted to feminist_rage)

Different musication

I think I have gone a bit off Musicbrainz for cataloguing my own music. The process is slow (about two weeks for an edit to be approved) and I often forget to go back and inspect, or become frustrated with limitations of the system (how does one handle a synth orchestra without online presence that released an album containing medleys of excerpts from pieces by different classical composers in a single track?).

So I am turning to tag editing locally, and probably when I am satisfied in some cases will offer the information back to Musicbrainz later. Meanwhile I will not have to worry about whether information I edit will meet the approval of others and will be able to update it at my leisure.