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4.46 AVERAGE
4.46 AVERAGE
Aubrey Gordon is a very good writer and this book is definitely essential! Everything in here is well researched and a lot of it is eye opening and rage inducing. She does a fantastic job of explaining how fat oppression has literal life and death consequences and how, like all oppression, there is no justification for it to continue. There is some definite overlap in content with her excellent podcast Maintenance Phase, and some chapters were a little repetitive, leading me to enjoy it a bit less than I expected. However it’s still worth a read!
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challenging
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informative
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There's a couple of editing blips where things get repetitive and I SO WISH that this audiobook had been performed by Aubrey (nothing wrong with the reader, I'm just used to her voice from the podcast), but this was fantastic. As a 'small fat' person by her definition, it was important to hear the differences between my experiences and her own. I have been mistreated by doctors, told to lose weight a lot (and I have dropped a LOT of weight twice and regained it both times... like 95% of the people who do so), and been uncomfortable in public places that are too cramped for me. I have not, however, been booted off of a flight or received anything close to the level of harrassment that larger people do (especially women or female presenting people).
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I read this book with my dietician and it was super insightful. The experience of being anxious about one’s body and how it’s perceived isn’t new to me, but as a straight sized person, I was pretty disgusted by the blatant hate and casual bullying that fat folks face in their day to day lives. It’s unreal. From airplanes to doctors offices, the hate is pervasive and unfounded given the misconception that fatness = laziness.
From airline seats and dating to street harassment and the doctor's office, Gordon unravels a systemic web of discrimination against fat people, and shares individual stories of harassment, bullying, and straight up meanness that she has experienced as a fat person. Part research project part memoir, Gordon's book is a much-needed conversation in a society that marginalizes fat people to the extent that fatphobia and anti-fatness can, and has, killed people. My issue (to the extent I even have one) is not about the topic or the author's viewpoints, but about the structure and editing. *I* found it repetitive and a bit rambling, which lessened the book's impact *for me* (as a straight-sized person).