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\\u201cThe starting point is, and the research questions are all framed by: \'We know it\'s terrible to be fat, but how terrible is it?\' Not: \'What would it take to give effective healthcare to fat people?\'\\u201d says Aubrey Gordon, writer of the new book You Just need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People, star of the documentary\\xa0Your Fat Friend, and podcaster of Maintenance Phase. And it\'s not just healthcare where the alignment of \'fat\' with \'unhealthy\' - and \'thinner\' with \'healthier\' - becomes problematic and often very dangerous. "I really don\'t think people contend with the ways in which they are sending a message to everyone around them that there is a weight limit for people that they will love."
\\nContent note: this episode contains discussions of body size, body image, weight, anti-fatness, illness including cancer, diet culture, weight loss - intentional and un - and eating disorders. And there are some category A swears.\\xa0
\\nThis is the second of two episodes about the word \\u2018fat\\u2019. In Fatlusionist part 1, Aubrey and I discuss euphemisms for fat, why people avoid saying \\u2018fat\\u2019, what else people mean when they say \\u2018fat\\u2019 and how it would be quite good if people said \\u2018fat\\u2019 as just a descriptive term for \\u2018fat\\u2019.
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