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I kinda knew all this but when Aubrey writes I must read! Wish more people would do the same. I liked it!
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Phenomenal book.
Outstanding.
The kind of book I want to buy a million copies and give it to everyone I know.
Must read by everyone everywhere.
Aubrey Gordon's writing is exquisite, her organization is on point, her talking points are well laid out.
It's a very quick read, under 200 pages.
And I cannot recommend this enough.
Outstanding.
The kind of book I want to buy a million copies and give it to everyone I know.
Must read by everyone everywhere.
Aubrey Gordon's writing is exquisite, her organization is on point, her talking points are well laid out.
It's a very quick read, under 200 pages.
And I cannot recommend this enough.
My Fat Friend was the most enlightening blog I read on Medium. And now she has a book that everyone should read. Many (most?) of us grew up in homes where anti-fatness was modeled. My parents constantly dieted. I was praised for my looks and weight loss.
Being fat isn't a personal failing or a choice. It's complicated and personal and frankly none of your business. But it is your business to treat fat people with respect as a fellow human. Please read this.
Being fat isn't a personal failing or a choice. It's complicated and personal and frankly none of your business. But it is your business to treat fat people with respect as a fellow human. Please read this.
Words that changed me
Every once in awhile you read a book that you know will stick with you forever. This is definitely one of those books. It has unequivocally changed the way I think (both of others and of myself). I can't even explain the ways this book reached into my brain, rewired and connected, and brought clarity, peace and healing to me. I highly recommend this book to everyone.
Every once in awhile you read a book that you know will stick with you forever. This is definitely one of those books. It has unequivocally changed the way I think (both of others and of myself). I can't even explain the ways this book reached into my brain, rewired and connected, and brought clarity, peace and healing to me. I highly recommend this book to everyone.
“Where our cultural conversation focuses relentlessly on personal responsibility and the perceived failures of fat people, this book seeks to zoom out, offering personal stories while simultaneously identifying the macro-level social, institutional, and political forces that powerfully shape the way each of us thinks of fat people, both in general and in particular.”
Wowowoww! An amazing look at how anti-fatness structurally shapes so much unfounded virtue-signaling and undignified discrimination. 10/10 would recommend to anyone who’s ever given a thought about anyone else’s weight or body. There’s ever more work to be done for personal reflection as well as fat justice efforts.
Wowowoww! An amazing look at how anti-fatness structurally shapes so much unfounded virtue-signaling and undignified discrimination. 10/10 would recommend to anyone who’s ever given a thought about anyone else’s weight or body. There’s ever more work to be done for personal reflection as well as fat justice efforts.
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I've been learning a lot about how pervasive anti-fat bias is, and how bias has informed things like diet culture and medical oractoce more than actual data and science. Aubrey Gordon's podcast Maintenance Phase is phenomenal, and this book is the same: incisive, heartbreaking and challenging .