That article. Judas Priest, that article. I could have spit acid with sheer rage, and I admit to having mentally launched some very uncomplimentary and highly unfeminist epithets at the author of that piece.
The sardonic, vicious part of me points out that those rewritings of BMI and critical numbers? Have undoubtedly massively benefited the one union no one remembers to talk about (the AMA*) and Big Pharma. See my surprised face. It is extra surprised. No, really, it is.
*Funny how people who work manual labour jobs are totally lazy shills who want to be paid for doing nothing, but a doctors' union is thoroughly unremarkable. Compare to the attitudes to the nurses' union. Then contemplate traditional gender roles in medicine. Anybody surprised? I'm not!
uh...hi, apparently my introduction to you is soapboxing! :D Hi.
But seriously, I mean, I admit that I possess and benefit from thin privilege, and I am one of those thin people with a sedentary lifestyle. (That happens, in IT.) I still have fits of panic when people start talking about BMI, and weight loss, and conventional notions of female beauty, because I am not in the perfect mold, and oh my gosh is my tummy showing, and did these pants always make my backside look like that, and so on and so on. And the thing is, I don't even get the worst of it. If this is what the social message does to me, what must it do to people who fit the expected conventional mold even less?
I don't understand this social construct that America has built around self-hatred and discontent. I really don't.
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The sardonic, vicious part of me points out that those rewritings of BMI and critical numbers? Have undoubtedly massively benefited the one union no one remembers to talk about (the AMA*) and Big Pharma. See my surprised face. It is extra surprised. No, really, it is.
*Funny how people who work manual labour jobs are totally lazy shills who want to be paid for doing nothing, but a doctors' union is thoroughly unremarkable. Compare to the attitudes to the nurses' union. Then contemplate traditional gender roles in medicine. Anybody surprised? I'm not!
uh...hi, apparently my introduction to you is soapboxing! :D Hi.
But seriously, I mean, I admit that I possess and benefit from thin privilege, and I am one of those thin people with a sedentary lifestyle. (That happens, in IT.) I still have fits of panic when people start talking about BMI, and weight loss, and conventional notions of female beauty, because I am not in the perfect mold, and oh my gosh is my tummy showing, and did these pants always make my backside look like that, and so on and so on. And the thing is, I don't even get the worst of it. If this is what the social message does to me, what must it do to people who fit the expected conventional mold even less?
I don't understand this social construct that America has built around self-hatred and discontent. I really don't.