And the BIC lies to you, tells you you could conform if you worked harder, had more discipline, on and on, bullshitbullshit, and the stress works its way from the outside to the inside. Even people who conform, more or less, to the aspirational ideal experience this stress. When they can’t credibly be told they have to be thinner, thin people are told they should “sculpt” or “tone” their abs or arms or butt or thighs. And everyone, regardless of size, is supposed to fret over food choices and exercise and clothes that make you “look fat” in an effort to fit the precisely molded aspirational
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