Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/02/14/wellness-influencers-are-convincing-people-to-shove-coffee-up-their-butts.html
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At the very least, it seems … unnecessary? At least for me, drinking a cup of coffee has a certain effect on my GI system not entirely unlike an enema, if you catch my drift.
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Corn. May I suggest corn?
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While “wellness” woo and fascist conspiracism pair naturallty, any kind of cure-all enema won’t gain any traction with right-wing men. A lot of those idiots are worried that wiping their bums after pooping might “make them gay”.
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They’re not very good “Influencers,” I remain entirely convinced coffee goes in the top end.
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I wouldn’t touch your drift with a ten-foot pole.
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It does treat caffeine addiction. So it has that going for it.
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That time Robin talked about it. It did not prevent her 11 year battle with cancer though.
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“Shoved”, tho?
Isn’t this the same kind of hyperbole the article objects to when the other side uses “jabbed” for vaccines?
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“Jab” is a pretty neutral term in re: vaccines. It’s sometimes used as a synonym for “shot”.
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Yes, that is true. I use it myself that way. (Totally up on my jabs, btw. Totally pro-vax here.)
I’m just pointing out that the article uses scare quotes for the tem (from the perspective of anti-vaxxers, presumably.) Here:
I read that as painting “jabbed” as unnecessary hyperbole. (Else why the scare quotes?)
It just seems that “shoved” is being used in the same way by the article.
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Kopi Luwak is the right choice for the job I guess.
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But isn’t the hyperbolic disdain justified in that case? And not in the other, anti-jab case?
I don’t mind using some of an other side’s tactics when justified. They’re not necessarily bad tactics just because the other side uses them, no?
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The coffee and tea enema cure-all idea had a good go round back in the seventies during the hippie back-to-the-land, ahem, movement.
And of course, enemas were a big part of the Kellogg Sanitarium regimen way back at the beginning of the 1900’s, so it’s nothing new. It was a dumb idea then, and still is today.
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At best these products are benign, and are causing people to throw away money on cures that are completely useless. At worst, they are hurting people—some seriously so.
Given what more is discovered about the gut microbiome** every day, I am in no doubt that this is never benign or harmless.
** Stephen Skolnick is as good a place to start as anywhere, but there are myriad other sources. His essays include one on smoking and coffee in relation to this topic.
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Covfefeces?
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