As someone who grew up with relentless body shaming from my immediate family, I must say I did not find this triggering at all. On the contrary, I found it healing.
You have reached new heights with this piece! You've thoroughly and accurately diagnosed our predicament and made me laugh throughout my reading. I'm hoping your observation, rooted both in your reading of Paglia and Girard, that women (and men) have been harmed by a culture of sterility. I'm 67 and came of age in the era of "the pill." Early on I wondered why it was considered a good thing to induce a diseased state, i.e. infertility, and label it liberating. Thanks once more for your work.
As someone who grew up with relentless body shaming from my immediate family, I must say I did not find this triggering at all. On the contrary, I found it healing.
You have reached new heights with this piece! You've thoroughly and accurately diagnosed our predicament and made me laugh throughout my reading. I'm hoping your observation, rooted both in your reading of Paglia and Girard, that women (and men) have been harmed by a culture of sterility. I'm 67 and came of age in the era of "the pill." Early on I wondered why it was considered a good thing to induce a diseased state, i.e. infertility, and label it liberating. Thanks once more for your work.
Skinny-fat boy summer is coming!