What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

by Aubrey Gordon

And, as Paul Campos notes in The Obesity Myth, white and class-privileged people’s harsh judgment of fat bodies in particular can often serve as a rerouting of the negative attitudes toward poor people and people of color that are no longer acceptable for predominantly wealthy, predominantly white people to voice aloud.

Regardless of the topic, shame doesn’t motivate change;

And it will rely upon those feminists’ willingness to sit with the discomfiting knowledge that, despite the relentless, whipping winds of misogyny all around them, their bodies have still afforded them some shelter that others don’t have.