160 Pounds Of Rage Bait

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]The average woman in the United States weighs 170 pounds. I want you to hold that number in your head and watch this.

[00:00:08]>> Act your weight because if you are 160 lbs, I don't want to see any attitude. I want you to be giving all that attitude to the treadmill.

[00:00:14]>> There's a woman on TikTok who posts about her weight loss journey, the medication she takes to speed up the weight loss. And she seems to have built her entire sense of self on the way she looks. and she came to Tik Tok to tell women that if they weigh more than her, they need to calm down and act their weight. The thing more of you girls need to start acting your weight. You heard that correctly, act your weight. Let's take a look at the phrase act your weight. It's modeled on the phrase act your age, and that is not a coincidence.

[00:00:46]Act your age as a command to stop taking up space, to stop being too much, and to start acting in a way that matches someone else's idea of what you deserve to be. You are too old to be silly. You are too young to have opinions. Know your place. Act your weight is basically the same thing. It's telling women that their body determines how much space they can take, how much confidence or attitude they are allowed to present. A woman's body is always subjected to being judged and ranked. And that ranking determines how she's allowed to carry herself in this world. Because if you are 160 lbs, I don't want to see any attitude. I want you to be giving all that attitude to the treadmill. Give it to your nutritionist. Give it to that Pilates class, which is basically stretching because like look at you. The 160 isn't a random number in my opinion.

[00:01:39]She chose it specifically for a few reasons. First of all, it isn't an extreme number in either direction, right? I mean, I don't think it's like too much or too little for anyone to weigh. Like, obviously, this depends on like your height, your fitness level, all of this stuff, you know? Like, that's very a very complicated topic.

[00:01:59]But I don't feel like it's an extreme number. Like, if she said 110 lbs, for example, I would be like, okay, like that's an extreme number, right? But 160 lbs is probably either in your normal weight range or like slightly above it.

[00:02:13]I'm pretty tall and 160 lbs wouldn't make me even close to being overweight.

[00:02:19]On top of that, apparently an average woman in the United States weighs 170 lb. And she knows this because she even said that in one of her Tik Toks.

[00:02:28]Breaking news, the average female in the United States is overweight. And what is overweight, you may ask? 170 lb. So, I think she chose this number because it's like slightly below average and she knew that would trigger a lot of people and kudos to her because people did get triggered. But by choosing this number, she's also calling out an average person in her country like you know she's from the United States. If the average woman's weight is 170 pounds there, then she's basically calling out everyone who is like average or slightly above average, even slightly below. Right? if you're 165 pounds, you don't fit into her idea of of if you can have attitude or not. It's a number that makes a lot of women feel personally targeted. And the more people are personally targeted, the more stitches, the more comments, the more reactions. And the algorithm sees all of that as just engagement, right? It doesn't judge if the engagement is positive or negative. It sees engagement. So, it pushes the video further. And now here we are. How are you? You're gonna give a skinny girl attitude when you're a fat [ __ ] Honestly, really. Like, just be [ __ ] And here's the thing. This is like the hot crazy matrix, but it applies to like girlhead. If you're fat, I don't want a skinny attitude. If you're going to give me attitude, you better [ __ ] be skinny. You better be 115 lbs to come for me. You heard that correctly. If you want to come for me, you better weigh 115 lbs. And then I respect it. I'm like, you know what? You are a skinny [ __ ] You're even skinnier than me.

[00:03:56]I'll accept the attitude. But if you're fatter than me, don't [ __ ] come for me. Do not [ __ ] come. And here is the most important part of the video because she isn't saying that women who are over 160 lbs are unattractive or that being skinny gives you pretty privilege or whatever. That's not what she's saying.

[00:04:15]She is saying that those women are out of line in terms of attitude, confidence, taking up space, refusing to be made to feel small. Those are the things being polished here. The weight is just a justification. And the real thing called out here is the woman's audacity to not make herself smaller just so people around her feel better.

[00:04:38]The way she talks about weight also speaks to her confidence because she says, "If you want to come for me, you better weigh 115 lbs, then I respect it.

[00:04:48]But if you are fatter than me, don't come for me." She shows herself as someone whose entire self-confidence is based on the way she looks. And it's not just in that video because if you take a look at her profile, she posts quite a lot about weight loss, about the, you know, appetite suppressants. She body checks quite a lot and she posts those weird Tik Toks with those weird captions that just make it seem as if she feels better than other other people just because she's skinny. Clearly, her confidence and opinion about herself are very much based on the way she looks.

[00:05:24]and she seems almost annoyed that the women that she considers fat have the audacity to not bend into society's will. They have the audacity to have the attitude that she criticizes so much because probably the only reason she has the attitude that she has is because she's skinny. To me, Raquel is missing this type of confidence. And she is in her rage bity way, trying to call out and silence silence women who are just fine not looking the way that everyone would want them to look. It seems like because she is missing this type of confidence, she is trying to make overweight people feel inferior because the only reason she feels superior is due to her looks. The idea that someone who doesn't meet her standards could just not care genuinely bothers her. Not because she is like worried for their well-being, but because it breaks the system that she's invested so much into.

[00:06:23]If your worth is your weight, then women who weigh more than you and they don't seem to care are threatening the entire framework. That's why she is trying to put them back in their place. Anyways, and that's on insecure fatties. Don't be an insecure fatty because honestly, like act your way. Don't be an insecure fatty, but she's also trying to make everyone she considers fat feel insecure. But you see what I mean when I say that her confidence is based on her looks. I mean, it's like it's impossible for her to imagine that someone could be fat in her words and not insecure, even confident. like to her the only way out of this situation, the only way to be confident is to lose weight.

[00:07:05]>> You know what I mean? Act your way. More people need to hear that. That is the tough truth. But a lot of you [ __ ] are not acting your way. Um, clearly not pulling your weight in any way, shape, or form or workout class or anything.

[00:07:15]Um, but start pulling your weight. Start acting your weight, girl. Bye. XXO.

[00:07:19]>> This video is obviously rage bait. I mean, I think her entire account is rage bait, but let's still talk about it. If you haven't subscribed yet, this is a good moment to do it. What really bugs me about this video is that she seems to present what she's saying as feminine advice, right? I mean, she mentioned girlhood and the way she talks. In my opinion, she's trying to make it seem like she is giving somebody advice, right? She's obviously mean and rage baiting, but she's trying to make it seem as if she was giving someone advice, in my opinion. And part of the reason why this video spread so fast is because it was said by a woman, right?

[00:07:55]If a man came on the internet and told women to act their weight, I think everyone would just dismiss him as another misogynist that we just scroll past. But because a woman says that, it it's almost framed like, I don't know, insider knowledge, feminine advice, girlhood, you know what I mean? There is a long tradition of women enforcing beauty standards on each other even more intensely than men do. And what she is doing here is textbook pickme behavior.

[00:08:24]In a culture that ranks women's bodies by attractiveness, performing contempt for those who don't care about the beauty standards is signaling which side of the line you're on. And it's not just signaling it to anyone, but to a very specific audience. And in that case, that audience is men. And not just any men, but men who determine women's value based on their bodies. the whole move, the whole thing that she's doing is basically saying, "I'm not like other women. I actually take care of myself.

[00:08:54]If you pick me, you're going to be happy because I'm going to monitor my weight and I'm going to make sure I don't gain too much." She's very clearly trying to distance herself from other women, women who don't take care of themselves, and she is using their bodies as the things that she's better than. And again, choosing 160 lbs was just the perfect move here in terms of like virality and rage baiting because it splits people almost in half. And the viewers who are like on the right side of the 160 pounds, they are going to feel like they are the good ones. They also take care of themselves. They didn't let themselves go. They don't make excuses and they wouldn't embarrass themselves by having an attitude that they haven't earned. and the viewer on the wrong side of that number gets to feel exactly how the video is trying to make her feel smaller. That division flattering some women isolating others is what makes this video so perfect for the algorithm because it generates anger from women who felt threatened, attacked, and it generates agreement from the women who felt maybe even flattered by that video.

[00:10:06]Both groups engage and all of that lands on Tik Tok, which already has a pretty troubled relationship with women's bodies. On the app, the body positivity movement was almost completely hollowed out. Under the hashtag body positivity, there is plenty of videos of thin young women who broadly conformed to the traditional beauty standard. Their content looks like this. A thin creator films her body post snatched. You know, everything is perfect. And then she writes, "A body that looks like this also looks like this." And then she relaxes her muscles, shows a bit of bloating, some rolls, some cellulite.

[00:10:46]You know the drill. The message is, see, I have flaws as well, which is nice in theory, but in practice, it shows the thin body as the reference point, as the default, as the thing that we should strive to look like. What it also does is it once again polices women's bodies because those creators who want to show, you know, their natural bodies, I feel like they actually have to put in the effort to find the things that are wrong with her body. Like, you know what I mean? Sometimes you will see a video of a very skinny, very beautiful creator who's I don't know, she probably has the best intentions. She's probably trying to make other people, you know, feel good about their bodies, all of the stuff. But she is trying so hard to find the things that are wrong with her body.

[00:11:29]Like she makes a very weird pose just so you could see that she has some rolls and she like does this with her skin just so you could see like the cellulite all of the stuff like it's almost funny that they are trying so hard to find something wrong with themselves just so they can post it right and no hate absolutely no hate I think they're trying their their best I think they're trying to make other women feel better so this is not something to be criticized it's just the whole idea of trying to look for things that are wrong with your body just so you can show on Tik Tok that you aren't so perfect. It's is just funny to me. That's it. And in this way, the movement that was supposed to challenge beauty standards had been absorbed by them. And while that was happening, another thing was happening simultaneously, which was the birth and the golden age of skinny talk. Tens of thousands of women who are already thin were sharing tips on how to get even smaller, even skinnier, framing starvation as an aesthetic. In June of 2025, Tik Tok banned the hashtag skinny talk, which was a move in the right direction, but let's not kid ourselves, it didn't really change anything.

[00:12:40]Content promoting extreme fitness continues. It just uses different hashtags. So, body positivity has been co-opted into something that mostly serves thin women's feelings. Skinny Talk has been promoting disordered eating to all of us, including teenagers. And the algorithm has been rewarding content which makes women feel bad about their bodies. That is the environment the act your weight video got dropped into. And if you are wondering why it hit so hard, why it wasn't treated like just another dump take, that is why. Because it landed on soil that had been tilled for years. Let me know what you guys think about it in the comments. And not just the video that we watched, but what do you guys think generally about Tik Tok's approach to women's bodies. Like, I'm really interested to hear your takes. If you don't know what to watch next, check out this video because I'm pretty sure you are going to like it. Don't forget to subscribe. See you in the next one. Bye.