A review by streberkatze
Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Good overview of the history and deep roots of falphobia in U.S. society. I could have done with a little less of the constant virtue signaling. Yes, the teader is aware that you are aware of your privileges as a white, middle-class small-fat cis-woman. Moving on. Also, another reminder that as progressives, we need to become much better at holding conflicting thoughts. To just say, "yes, I'm aware of the food industry's engineering and inceasant lobbying to flood the market with products people can't stop consuming, despite their bodies' needs and signals," is not enough. Ignoring this fact is litetally the unaddressed weakness of intuitive eating approaches. How do we address the reality that this is just as true as corporations benefitting — and fueling — fatphobia? In fact, these things go hand in hand incredibly well. This reminds me of the Left in postwar West Germany who thought smoking would be a great way of opposing the Nazis' body cult. There's a real possibility here that there are no non-exploitative, non-damaging approaches to existing under the current system. And acknowledging that, while kind of a bummer, would make the work we do to change things nevertheless a lot more credible.
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