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there’s not a whole lot I can say about this that hasn’t already been said, but I would be remiss if I didn’t note that in a just a handful of pages, Ratajkowski paints a painfully accurate and heartbreaking portrait of what it means to exist in a body that is prized and reviled in a patriarchal society. As a fat trans woman, my experience both mirrors, and contrasts Ratajkowski’s, but never contradicts, and that’s something I’m going to ruminate on for quite a while. Her writing is excellent- revealing, sobering, nuanced, and complex. More than anything else, I was so taken by the directness she takes in demonstrating the distance she feels between her body and her self- as if it is an object she is in possession of, rather than what makes her her. That separation of the conscious self from the body, due to a society of objectification, really has challenged my perspective on “beautiful people”.
women deserve so much better.
women deserve so much better.