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This is what most girls are taught—that we should be slender and small. We should not take up space. We should be seen and not heard, and if we are seen, we should be pleasing to men, acceptable to society. And most women know this, that we are supposed to disappear, but it’s something that needs to be said, loudly, over and over again, so that we can resist surrendering to what is expected of us.
The Biggest Loser is an unholy union of capitalism and the weight-loss industrial complex.
The message, though, is the same—that self-worth and happiness are inextricably linked to thinness.
What does it say about our culture that the desire for weight loss is considered a default feature of womanhood?
