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"You just need to lose weight" : and 19 other myths about fat people  Cover Image Book Book

"You just need to lose weight" : and 19 other myths about fat people / Aubrey Gordon.

Gordon, Aubrey, (author.).

Summary:

In "You Just Need to Lose Weight," Aubrey Gordon equips readers with the facts and figures to reframe myths about fatness in order to dismantle the anti-fat bias ingrained in how we think about and treat fat people. Bringing her dozen years of community organizing and training to bear, Gordon shares the rhetorical approaches she and other organizers employ not only to counter these pernicious myths but also to dismantle the anti-fat bias that so often underpins them. Grounded in research and history, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" is an essential tool for having effective conversations around fat acceptance and fat justice. -- From back cover.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780807006474
  • ISBN: 0807006475
  • Physical Description: xxiii, 205 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Boston, MA : Beacon Press, [2023]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-205).
Formatted Contents Note:
Pt. 1. "Being fat is a choice" -- "Being fat is a choice. If fat people don't like how they're treated, they should just lose weight." -- "Any fat person can become thin if they try hard enough. It's just a matter of 'calories in, calories out." -- "Parents are responsible for their child's weight. Only bad parents let their children get fat." -- "Thin people should help fat people lose weight." -- "Weight loss is the result of healthy choices and should be celebrated." -- pt. 2. "But what about your health?" -- "Obesity is the leading cause of death in the United States." -- "The BMI is an objective measure of size and health." -- "Doctors are unbiased judges of fat people's health. Fat people don't like going to the doctor's office because they don't like hearing the truth." -- "Fat people are emotionally damaged and cope by 'eating their feelings.'" -- pt. 3. Fat acceptance glorifies obesity -- "Accepting fat people 'glorifies obesity.'" -- "Body positivity is about feeling better about yourself, as long as you're happy and healthy." -- "We're in the middle of an obesity epidemic." -- "Fat people don't experience discrimination." -- "I don't like gaining weight, but I don't treat fat people differently." -- pt. 4. "Fat people should..." -- "Fat people shouldn't call themselves fat." -- "People who have never been fat have 'internalized fatphobia.'" -- "No one is attracted to fat people. Anyone who is has a 'fat fetish.'" -- "Fat people should pay for a second airplane seat." -- "Skinny shaming is just as bad as fat shaming." -- "Anti-fatness is the last socialy acceptable form of discrimination.
Subject: Discrimination against overweight persons > United States.
Obesity > Social aspects > United States.
Overweight persons > United States > Social conditions.
United States.

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North Kansas City Public Library 616.398 GORDON 2023 (Text) 0001012501856 Nonfiction Available -


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