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4.46 AVERAGE
4.46 AVERAGE
If you don't think fatphobia is a social justice issue, please read this book. Actually, read it even if you already do. I work in the field of eating disorder treatment and consider myself relatively well-informed about issues around diet culture and medical fatphobia, but my gosh. Recognizing the sheer number of ways fat people are literally dehumanized in our society was humbling. My privilege as a straight-sized person absolutely shows. I could sit here and ramble about it, but just read the book.
I do acknowledge that some parts of it are repetitive in a way that suggests poor editing as opposed to repetition for emphasis or reader retention. My guess is that the chapters probably began as individual essays that were compiled together into the book. That being said, I'm looking forward to reading Gordon's next book, which comes in January, and I'm so excited that she'll be reading the audiobook for it!
I do acknowledge that some parts of it are repetitive in a way that suggests poor editing as opposed to repetition for emphasis or reader retention. My guess is that the chapters probably began as individual essays that were compiled together into the book. That being said, I'm looking forward to reading Gordon's next book, which comes in January, and I'm so excited that she'll be reading the audiobook for it!
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
informative
medium-paced
I have really appreciated Aubrey's work on Maintainence Phase and other podcasts and substacks where she has been a guest. She makes me look at the world with a new lens. Getting more of her life story which she hints at in other spaces was really intimate.
challenging
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Read this book for a book club. It offers some useful insight and sparked some really thoughtful conversation. I would implore anyone, especially anyone in a straight sized body, to read it.
Required reading! Allow your biases and ingrained beliefs to be challenged by what is presented here. As a straight-size white cis woman reading this book, sometimes it made me uncomfortable! Sometimes it made me feel fucked up! But those thoughts and feelings are necessary to confront all of the things discussed in its pages and actively work to change what the system has taught.
This book is important and relevant food for thought, but I was hoping for more from it... It shares real stigma, heartbreaks, & bias, and introduces a perspective that needs to be shared. However, I hoped for a more nuanced discussion. I wanted to love this book, but the myopic tone made it fall a bit flat.