“And yet a woman’s weight is seen by American culture as an outward manifestation of her personal worth. If she is overweight (a tricky term that I hate – over what weight?), she has failed as a woman. If she is overweight and not actively seen to be doing something about it (exercising for sixty-eight percent of her waking hours, eating three pieces of lettuce and a tomato for every meal, going to a nutritionist, going to a gym, going to a personal trainer, hiring a personal chef, getting costly and dangerous surgeries to butcher the shape of her stomach, publicly demeaning herself and her body so that the world knows she understands it’s not good enough), she has failed as a woman. If she is overweight and feels like eating a hamburger instead of a salad one day, she has failed as a woman.”
Everybody, Every Body: the Media’s Erasure of Fat Girls
this is a really articulate way of describing why despite being a cisgendered woman with 100% cisgender privilege, I still have extreme issues with seeing myself as a woman.
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kaye wrote this and kaye is really amazing and everyone should follow kaye
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HOLY SHIT THE NOTES ON THIS….
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It won’t stop?!
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