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"My morbid obesity saved my life!" claims Fresno professor

This made me giggle a bit, because she seems to have missed a very important point in all this:

[quote]today i discovered something called the obesity survival paradox.

[quote]back in early june, i contracted Hmpv, a virus that usually only affects kids and the elderly. It spiraled into pneumonia and i was hospitalized for almost a week

[quote]i discovered that most people who catch hmpv are kids or elderly. very rarely, it also affects people with compromised immune systems. i am diabetic.

[quote]and so hmpv, a respiratory disease, developed into pneumonia. i discovered later that this development happens to people with both low AND high BMI.

[quote]here's the amazing part: fat people are more likely to survive pneumonia.

[quote]our bodies are incredible. doctors suck. every doctor i've encountered has seen my obesity as a fatal problem. discovering this little factoid, that i survived because i was fat, brings me joy.

Anyone else see the issue? While she's ecstatic that her fat body helped her in her fight against pneumonia, she kinda glosses over the fact she got so sick because of HMPV - a virus that tends to only attack the elderly and the very young - because she is diabetic. Something that is either caused by or exacerbated by being morbidly obese!

Ahh, well, I guess if it makes her happy.

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by Anonymousreply 12August 15, 2022 8:41 AM

So, being fat saved her from something she only got because she was fat?

I see.

by Anonymousreply 1August 12, 2022 11:07 PM

Exactly, R1. She doesn't seem to quite get the hang of that though, funnily enough.

by Anonymousreply 2August 12, 2022 11:08 PM

I hope she is not a biology professor.

by Anonymousreply 3August 12, 2022 11:17 PM

She has an MFA and teaches Creative Writing, which is probably no surprise, ha!

by Anonymousreply 4August 12, 2022 11:19 PM

If she's so unhappy with doctors and their negative, misguided advice, she should hire a professional life coach who can affirm and optimize her fabulous choices.

by Anonymousreply 5August 12, 2022 11:26 PM

Well, R5, she is a straight woman who demands the right to be trans without actually living it, and to refer to herself as a "fag", so I'm not sure she is living in reality, hehe.

Which is all the more interesting as one of the few things she is actually known for is demanding white women stop belly dancing, as that is "culturally appropriating" her culture.

I do remember her having a conversation once that medicine was "fatphobic" because doctor's based their idea of health off of skinny people rather than fat people.

Honestly, she sounds terribly unhappy most of the time.

by Anonymousreply 6August 12, 2022 11:31 PM

She was not a fan of Barbara Bush:

"After former first lady Barbara Bush died on April 17, some praised her political skill or her outspoken nature.

But Randa Jarrar, an English professor at California State University Fresno, was unimpressed with the accolades.

“Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal,” Jarrar tweeted (her account is now private). “Fuck outta here with your nice words.”

by Anonymousreply 7August 13, 2022 12:22 AM

^The woman is always so desperate for attention. I will say that I do believe she had every right to say what she wanted there, and the people calling for her firing were being stupid. But, she is a stupid idiot at the same time.

You should hear her complain about how she was treated when she tried to enter Israel. The problem was that she knew she had to enter through the Jordanian side but refused to, then lied to immigration about why she was there and who she was staying with, and then threatened to piss on the floor when she was being detained. But the way she tells it, she was solely the victim of the Israelis.

She also tells anyone who'll listen that the author Cormac McCarthy raped her, but the version she tells HERSELF has her explain that she consented to sex and then when she told him to stop, he did. But it was a sexual assault because he didn't stop when she first THOUGHT that she didn't want to do it anymore, only once she had communicated it to him.

She's madder than a cut snake, this one.

by Anonymousreply 8August 15, 2022 8:13 AM

Not this skank again. She is one of worst attention whores in California, which is really saying something. She is definitely Axis II, cluster B, morbidly obese, claims she is a POC, non-het, cannot shut her fat face, and is severely mediocre in all her endeavors. Hopefully this most recent health challenge WILL SHUT HER UP. Ugh, so nasty 🤮, so toxic.

by Anonymousreply 9August 15, 2022 8:35 AM

[quote]She is one of worst attention whores in California

Think you're 100% right there. Remember when she filmed herself rolling around on the beach, naked?

by Anonymousreply 10August 15, 2022 8:37 AM

Yes! Barf and cringe worthy. She had a diva fan along for the ride for some reason. I guess the mud flaps got too greasy/sweaty.

by Anonymousreply 11August 15, 2022 8:39 AM

Oh god, the fan! Hahaha, I'd forgotten that!

She basically made the death of an artist all about herself. The artist who incidentally died from diabetes, something which apparently doesn't kill you according to Jarrar, it's just what ignorant doctors want you to believe.

by Anonymousreply 12August 15, 2022 8:41 AM
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