A review by sayevet
Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass by Jes Baker

4.25

"It makes perfect sense that because many fat women are desexualized, undesirable, and perceived as lazy in every way, we would attempt to prove all of those things wrong by performing the most obvious form of desirability a woman can: turning ourselves into sex objects. This helps us hold on to the currency that we are still trying. We know we're fat, but look at our attempts to fit your mold anyway! Do we fall on the right side of 'good enough' yet? The answer, until we change our cultural perceptions about fat bodies, will always be no."