At this year’s conference, euphemism ruled, according to a report in Quillette by Jack Butler. Their victimhood, it was alleged, could be traced to a phenomenon called “healthism,” which has been defined as “a coercive and potentially fascist act linked to capitalism, racism and Nazi-style eugenics.”Īt the 2017 convention of the American Psychological Association, Joan Chrisler, a psychology teacher from Connecticut College, accused doctors who advise their patients to lose weight of “fat shaming.”īuilding on the academic success of fat studies, BodCon, a virtual conference for fat people that started in 2021, has amplified the campus-based message to the general population. He listened as academics bemoaned the insensitivity of doctors who advised them to lower their body mass index, ads for diet products and slim fashion models. In his book, “ The Victims’ Revolution: The rise of Identity Studies and the Birth of the Woke Ideology,” Bruce Bawer recalls his attendance at a fat-studies panel at a 2010 women’s studies conference in Denver (fat studies is “overwhelmingly” a female-dominated discipline). This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Just as Blacks were victims of racism, fat people were victims of “sizeism” - or, in the parlance, “fat oppression.” Thus, any expressed concerns for a victim’s health can be turned back on them as a “microaggression.” The genius of the fat-acceptance movement was to deflect attention from excess weight as a health problem and frame it as a political “rights” and “identity” issue. This makes me wonder what it will mean for the fat-acceptance movement. Just as the pill detached fear of pregnancy from sex, rendering sexual restraint obsolete, Ozempic will be the weight-gain prophylactic that levels the playing field between healthy and unhealthy eating. In a year or two, as popular demand and widespread production brings costs down, these drugs will usher in an eating revolution. Ozempic and its “semaglutide” siblings are for now officially restricted and too expensive for merely overweight proles, but wait and see. It seems like the answer to a billion prayers. Elon Musk, for example, who is not diabetic, says Wegovy, an Ozempic competitor, is the reason he looks “fit, ripped and healthy.” Kimmel’s joke was a wink to slenderness-obsessed celebrities who shouldn’t be using it - it is meant primarily for diabetics - but who find the usual doors open for them. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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