What is cooking in the ivory tower! More oppression and anti-Black racism is being discovered! Beware oppression is everywhere all around us! And if you did not know, you white person are a racist! (Caution: Irony)
Or how one professor is trying hard to make her very personal issues and self therapy into something larger!
She presents long known trivialities! So what is the professor's contribution to human knowledge?
"Fatphobia, says philosopher Kate Manne, has become a vital social justice issue [???]. In her new book, “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia,”
Fatphobia is a historically recent systemic form of prejudice. In the past, fatness was often celebrated and seen as a sign of wealth and luxury and prosperity. As the sociologist Sabrina Strings has shown, it was in the mid-18th century that anti-fatness was born out of a need to differentiate white bodies in France and Britain from the Black bodies who were being so brutally enslaved. It’s not that fatness was first derogated, and then Black bodies were associated with fatness. ...
historically recent fatphobia in its systemic form is, and also to see that it is really a powerful tool of anti-Black racism even today.
Fatphobia is a historically recent systemic form of prejudice. In the past, fatness was often celebrated and seen as a sign of wealth and luxury and prosperity. As the sociologist Sabrina Strings has shown, it was in the mid-18th century that anti-fatness was born out of a need to differentiate white bodies in France and Britain from the Black bodies who were being so brutally enslaved. It’s not that fatness was first derogated, and then Black bodies were associated with fatness. ...
historically recent fatphobia in its systemic form is, and also to see that it is really a powerful tool of anti-Black racism even today.
The message of this book is basically that dieting is a really bad idea. And unfortunately for me, because I happen to hate exercise, exercise is a really good idea. We see many promising longitudinal studies of people who were really fit even if they were also fat, and who have excellent health outcomes on average.
With dieting, people can lose a moderate amount of weight initially, but the weight comes back pretty inexorably over a five-year period, and, in fact, between one- and two-thirds of people will end up heavier than when they started. The health ill effects of going up and down in weight are really significant, so independently of what you actually weigh, weight cycling – that is, losing and regaining and losing and regaining weight repeatedly – turns out to be harmful for our health across a bunch of measures like cardiovascular health, immune function, metabolic function (including the risk of Type 2 diabetes), and also mental health. ...
The idea that I call body reflexivity says: My body is for me. Your body is for you. ..."
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