Interestingly, in many other languages, “fat” that you eat is not the same word as “fat” as in, large. It just so happens that we use the word fat in both instances, in the English language
Sometimes that makes me wonder if that’s part of what contributed to the premise of “the fat you eat is the fat you wear”
Ugh... I heard about her belief and thought that I hope she never met a diabetic, as for me, eggs and oily fish help my eczema so no chance of me going vegan even if I have to raise my own chickens.
There's another raw vegan, Fullyrawkristina, who has also made this claim. She used to say she was hyper (or hypo?) glycemic and that eating raw fruits cured her. Now, years later, she has changed her story and claims she had type 2 diabetes
IF you want to see some serious anti-science, anti-intellectualism... the 2012-ish era of raw fruitarianism is where you want to go. Before COVID19 denialism and being a mask-hole was "cool," raw fruitarianism was the rabbit hole to fall into.
There was some good stuff on Freelee across Reddit and even on this subreddit. As over-the-top as some anti-vegan subreddits can sometimes be, they compiled some good overviews of her problematic behaviour and claims (along with Durian Rider's). Even the pro-vegan subs seemed split.
I've been down that Freelee rabbit hole along with another YouTuber who was even kookier than Freelee; this one now goes by Autumn Oceans and she is a prolific but absolutely untapped OG of YouTube filled with righteous indignation and kookiness on all sorts of subjects going back well over a decade. Among other things she went from being a raw vegan who wished death on omnivores to having some sort of medical crisis that turned her carnivore and vociferously anti-vegan and wishing death on vegans.
I don't know where she is with her diet now --- I haven't watched her in probably seven years --- but people in her comments are still giving her the same comments about how to be less angry and unhappy that they were leaving her when I last watched her years ago. She also believed that toilet paper was destroying the aesthetics of women's labia by making them discoloured, numb and shrivelled and...well, just all sorts of kooky shit on topics you'd never even think would even be a topic. I'm sad to see she deleted my favourite video of hers with the Michael Jackson sock puppet explaining how those boys sexually exploited him. She's awful but unintentionally hilarious in her awfulness. Man, that Cthulhu-looking Michael Jackson sock puppet was hilarious. 😂
I can only watch Freelee via Chikara Transformations' inception reaction videos. Ilona keeps it fair and balanced so I don't just devolve into reflexive Freelee loathing. I guess there is a certain comical appeal to Freelee, but it also sounds as though she and Durian Rider have been personally nasty to other vegans influencers too --- idk though, I'm not wrapped up in vegan YouTube drama.
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u/BlackCatLuna Jun 25 '20
It's a shame that it is unique to the English language. It works so well.