“By continuing to pursue thinness you are in some level, maintaining your complicity with white supremacy and patriarchy.”
A weight culture journalist said during an interview Tuesday that fitness-minded people working on a thin body type are “complicit with white supremacy and patriarchy.”that United States society’s desire to be skinny — and adversity to fatness — can be traced to the end of American slavery as a way of preserving out-of-touch, white beauty standards.
“If you can understand that, actually, by continuing to pursue thinness you are in some level, maintaining your complicity with white supremacy and patriarchy,” she added. Also, in her book “Fearing the Black Body” Sabrina Strings explained how the preference for thinness allegedly stems from slavery.: “They decided to articulate new aspects of racial identity. And so eating and body size became two of the characteristics that were being used to suggest that these are people who do not deserve freedom.”
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