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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
91 reviews
buttermellow's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming
Moderate: Bullying
kaylee1957's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Fatphobia
maddox22's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Medical trauma, and Fatphobia
rubyvee's review against another edition
5.0
It’s achingly hard to get through but also wonderfully validating who experiences anti-fatness. It is a powerful indictment of our medical and diet industries and a call for truly re-examining and dismantling the harmful and deadly bias of anti-fatness.
Graphic: Fatphobia, Ableism, Body shaming, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Eating disorder and Medical content
jeremy_bearimy's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Bullying, and Body shaming
Moderate: Eating disorder
karcitis's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Bullying
Moderate: Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Medical content, Violence, Rape, Racism, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Ableism
Minor: Transphobia, Classism, Chronic illness, Cancer, Abortion, Pregnancy, Biphobia, Terminal illness, Lesbophobia, and Homophobia
bayleereads's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, and Eating disorder
bcastaneda's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Bullying, and Gaslighting
jcstokes95's review against another edition
5.0
Gordon’s experiences throughout this book constantly reflected my own life experiences. This was nauseating because it meant remember all the screaming out of cars at me, all my anxious feelings toward dating, experiences that led me there, all the coworker questions about food, every garbage medical experience and denial of care. I had to think about all the ways I have learned to protect myself because Gordon’s own stories were reflecting that back to me. Then I thought, there is no way any thin person it going to ever get any understanding of these stories, because fat people are too afraid to tell them. We are disbelieved on any claim we make. Gordon gets to the heart of this issue as well.
Honestly, she’s slamming fact after fact down about how the abuse, intolerance and injustice serves to worsen fat people’s health outcomes. She’s telling you what any person on the tough side of the fucked BMI scale will tell you. There is very little about your body’s composition that you can control. If we could control it, wouldn’t we change it to avoid the harassment? Or do we really believe that over 30 percent of Americans are really into being negged by strangers?
The message here is inherent dignity. Every person, no matter their health, weight, attractiveness, ability level has inherent dignity. This is what we all need to hear. Gordon’s digging into what I have always found most fascinating about discriminators toward any group. The way the illusion of choice emboldens people to believe they have a say in other’s life and rights. (Choice was the core argument against gay marriage and continues to be the main argument against trans rights). It has always been bullshit.
I could pretty much talk about all my thoughts on this book for days. But I won’t. Because honestly, one of aforementioned self-protection practices I’ve learned is not sharing my every thought on fatness on the internet. So, where I will end it, every person should try to read this book. It is going to make you uncomfortable; you will be squirming in your chair the whole time. But maybe you will be able to begin confronting the ways you make life difficult for others without even knowing it.
Graphic: Fatphobia, Bullying, Sexual harassment, and Body shaming
Moderate: Rape and Medical trauma
corvidaeus's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Bullying
Moderate: Medical content, Chronic illness, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, and Transphobia