Where Does Fatphobia Come From? (Kate Manne)
b"\\u201cI think there's a lot of assumptions in play here that a good body is a thin one, a thin body is achievable, a thin body is achievable for everyone, and that you will be fully in control of your health and your mortality if you're thin, which is also just of course a myth. There are plenty of fat, healthy, happy people, and there are plenty of sadly unhealthy, thin people who should not be regarded as any more or less worthy than a fat person who suffers from a similar health condition. These people should be receiving, in most cases, just the same treatment. And yet, for the fat person who suffers from the same health condition, the prescription is weight loss, whereas for the thin person, they're given often closer to adequate medical care.\\u201d\\nSo says, moral philosopher and Cornell professor Kate Manne, one of those brilliant and insightful observers of culture working today. She\\u2019s the author of two incredible books about misogyny\\u2014Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women and Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny\\u2014and has coined mainstream terms like \\u201chimpathy,\\u201d her word for the way we afford our sympathy to the male aggressor rather than the female victim. The example she uses is the trial of Brock Turner, the Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted Chanel Miller, and the way the judge and the media seemed more concerned about Turner\\u2019s sullied future than Miller\\u2019s experience and recovery.\\nHer newest book is just as essential: It\\u2019s called Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia and it explores Manne\\u2019s own experience of being a fat woman in our unabiding culture. If you read the Gluttony chapter of On Our Best Behavior, some of the material she explores will be familiar\\u2014but in Kate Manne style, she drives it all the way home. I love this conversation, which we\\u2019ll turn to now.\\n\\nMORE FROM KATE MANNE:\\nUnshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia\\nEntitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women\\nDown Girl: The Logic of Misogyny\\nFollow Kate Manne on Twitter\\nKate Website\\nKate\\u2019s Newsletter\\n \\nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\\n \\n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices"