In her recent book Unshrinking, Kate Manne explores the systemic nature of fatphobia and the way we are able to unlearn the damaging body standards we're taught from a young age
Prior to now week, five per cent of teenage girls have used a harmful weight-loss product with out a prescription from a health care provider. That’s one in 20. We live in a society that places a major amount of value on thinness, and it’s clear the pressure to stick to this ideal starts young. Fatphobia is present in nearly every aspect of our culture, from medical bias around weight to body shaming in promoting. And if it seems, on the surface,...
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