In the real world—the one outside of this book and the communities we build for ourselves—no matter how solid we feel, it’s easy to fall back into diet culture because we speak the language. Fluently. It’s in the air. A news story on minor league baseball where the reporter made a joke asking if players gained weight during the off-season. An obituary in The New York Times for a famous actress: From an early age she aspired to be a ballet dancer, and, though never the sveltest girl en pointe … 2 Fuck. You. (The actress was Valerie Harper. The reporter was Bruce Weber, in case you would like to
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