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4.25 AVERAGE
4.25 AVERAGE
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Very comprehensive but sometimes difficult to listen to.
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Should be required reading. Illuminates how fatphobia is one of the remaining socially acceptable, even encouraged, prejudices.
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Interesting but didn't feel completely new to me. Would like more depth and analysis.
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I think this is an essential read for literally any person. so many terrifying statistics but also really clearly breaks down how fatphobia has NO scientific backing and it’s racist history which is devastating obviously but very interesting
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TL/DR; A 5-star book that I had a 4-star personal reading experience with.
CONTENT WARNING: Diet/ED Talk Ahead
I just finished the book everyone connected with the issue is talking about regarding fatphobia and diet culture and I wanted to post my honest review as someone who has a history of eating disorders.
If you don't have issues with things triggering disordered eating and if you have NEVER read a book on this topic, then this is the one to pick up. It is well-cited and digs deep into all of the important facets of diet culture and fatphobia very much like Aubrey Gordon's "What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat." But, it's written more recently so it deals with even more current issues (Ozempic) and digs really deep into how fatphobia upholds other systems of oppression around gender and race, something we're seeing a lot more lately. If you've never read a book on this topic and if you're open to this one, I fully believe it could completely shakeup your relationship with food/diet AND your worldview.
If this topic is NOT new to you, some of this book may seem redundant. For the first half of this book I kept thinking, "This is Aubrey Gordon's's book. Why didn't her book get this much attention?" But stick with it, she does dig deeper into things Gordon touched on briefly (I'm assuming Gordon didn't have the advance financial backing this book had) but Mann also brings in a lot of things that were relatively new to me, like the the concept of "body reflexivity" and she has a chapter called "The Authority of Hunger" that I will definitely re-read often because it was such a great mindset shift on hunger that I loved. So...if you struggle in the beginning with feeling like this book didn't give you anything new, stick with it.
Now...here's where we get to my rating as a 4-star experience reading a 5-star book. If you struggle with any form of disordered eating...this book may trigger you. The author weaves her own personal journey into the well-cited research she's sharing and a lot of her journey reflects my own and I really had to skim in parts and once or twice I had to set it down entirely for a few days. Am I glad I read it? DEFINITELY. But I really did have to skim over when she starts discussing her own experience because a few parts of her story reflected my own and I found it difficult.
But this book deserves the accolades it's getting. It has been shortlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in the nonfiction category. I hope it seeps into mainstream culture because everyone needs to read it.
CONTENT WARNING: Diet/ED Talk Ahead
I just finished the book everyone connected with the issue is talking about regarding fatphobia and diet culture and I wanted to post my honest review as someone who has a history of eating disorders.
If you don't have issues with things triggering disordered eating and if you have NEVER read a book on this topic, then this is the one to pick up. It is well-cited and digs deep into all of the important facets of diet culture and fatphobia very much like Aubrey Gordon's "What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat." But, it's written more recently so it deals with even more current issues (Ozempic) and digs really deep into how fatphobia upholds other systems of oppression around gender and race, something we're seeing a lot more lately. If you've never read a book on this topic and if you're open to this one, I fully believe it could completely shakeup your relationship with food/diet AND your worldview.
If this topic is NOT new to you, some of this book may seem redundant. For the first half of this book I kept thinking, "This is Aubrey Gordon's's book. Why didn't her book get this much attention?" But stick with it, she does dig deeper into things Gordon touched on briefly (I'm assuming Gordon didn't have the advance financial backing this book had) but Mann also brings in a lot of things that were relatively new to me, like the the concept of "body reflexivity" and she has a chapter called "The Authority of Hunger" that I will definitely re-read often because it was such a great mindset shift on hunger that I loved. So...if you struggle in the beginning with feeling like this book didn't give you anything new, stick with it.
Now...here's where we get to my rating as a 4-star experience reading a 5-star book. If you struggle with any form of disordered eating...this book may trigger you. The author weaves her own personal journey into the well-cited research she's sharing and a lot of her journey reflects my own and I really had to skim in parts and once or twice I had to set it down entirely for a few days. Am I glad I read it? DEFINITELY. But I really did have to skim over when she starts discussing her own experience because a few parts of her story reflected my own and I found it difficult.
But this book deserves the accolades it's getting. It has been shortlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in the nonfiction category. I hope it seeps into mainstream culture because everyone needs to read it.