Fat and Fucked Ep. 3 - It’s Not Paranoia If It’s True: The Covert Nature of Anti-Fatness
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07/19/23 • 50 min
Anti-fatness is insidious, and we are intentionally misled about fatness and fat people which leads most of us on an all-consuming venture to shrink our bodies or make sure we don’t get fat in the first place. Join Suzy and Krista as they locate the reason for this misinformation in the context of systemic gaslighting that is pushing us toward weight loss while making many corporations and industries billions. Don’t forget to submit questions about sex, sexuality, and fat bodies for Krista (AKA Dr. Sexyfat) to answer in upcoming episodes! And If you’d like to support the show you can do so at patreon.com/fatandfuckedpodcast.
- “Gaslight” (1944) movie clip - https://www.google.com/search?q=Gaslight+movie+clips&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS837US837&oq=Gaslight+movie+clips&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i390i650l4.5305j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:74536d9a,vid:BICqcEvzhVw
- Merriam - Webster Definition “gaslight” - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaslighting
- AAP Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Obesity https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/151/2/e2022060640/190443/Clinical-Practice-Guideline-for-the-Evaluation-and?autologincheck=redirected
- Increase in eating disorders in older adults: https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13643-021-01823-1
- Fatness predicts low self-esteem. https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-12381-5
- Global weight management market size https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/weight-management-market#:~:text=The%20global%20weight%20management%20market%20size%20was%20estimated%20at%20USD,the%20weight%20management%20market%20growth%3F
- Havard Implicit Association Test - https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
- Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Campaign - https://letsmove.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/
Anti-fatness is insidious, and we are intentionally misled about fatness and fat people which leads most of us on an all-consuming venture to shrink our bodies or make sure we don’t get fat in the first place. Join Suzy and Krista as they locate the reason for this misinformation in the context of systemic gaslighting that is pushing us toward weight loss while making many corporations and industries billions. Don’t forget to submit questions about sex, sexuality, and fat bodies for Krista (AKA Dr. Sexyfat) to answer in upcoming episodes! And If you’d like to support the show you can do so at patreon.com/fatandfuckedpodcast.
- “Gaslight” (1944) movie clip - https://www.google.com/search?q=Gaslight+movie+clips&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS837US837&oq=Gaslight+movie+clips&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i390i650l4.5305j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:74536d9a,vid:BICqcEvzhVw
- Merriam - Webster Definition “gaslight” - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaslighting
- AAP Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Obesity https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/151/2/e2022060640/190443/Clinical-Practice-Guideline-for-the-Evaluation-and?autologincheck=redirected
- Increase in eating disorders in older adults: https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13643-021-01823-1
- Fatness predicts low self-esteem. https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-12381-5
- Global weight management market size https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/weight-management-market#:~:text=The%20global%20weight%20management%20market%20size%20was%20estimated%20at%20USD,the%20weight%20management%20market%20growth%3F
- Havard Implicit Association Test - https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
- Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Campaign - https://letsmove.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/
Previous Episode
Fat and Fucked Ep. 2 - The Big Fat Lie: the Trail of Destruction Behind the Belief That Fat = Bad
The Big Fat Lie, or the belief that fat is bad and thin is good, is pervasive and spawns countless other lies, beliefs, misunderstandings and misinterpretations across all facets of our society. Of course this has a huge impact on everyone, but especially fat folks living in a world structured around anti-fat bias. In this episode, Suzy and Krista illuminate some of the things we get wrong in a jamboree of replacing lies and misconception with complexity, and accuracy. Listen to the episode and give us a review!
Social Determinants of Health https://www.cdc.gov/about/sdoh/index.html
Body Respect by Lindo Bacon and Lucy Aphramour (Talked about the liposuction study that did not improve health outcomes)
Aubrey Gordon https://www.aubreygordon.net/, author of What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat and You Just Need to Lose Weight: and 19 Other Myths About Fat People
Shrill https://www.hulu.com/series/shrill-54eab813-3a9b-496d-9d7e-908597ad8d1a
BMI History - https://elemental.medium.com/the-bizarre-and-racist-history-of-the-bmi-7d8dc2aa33bb
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268439
Next Episode
Fat and Fucked Ep. 4 - The Goonies and One-Eyed Willies Treasure: A Metaphor for Our Search for Healthy Sexuality
Episode #4: The Goonies and One-Eyed Willy’s Treasure: A Metaphor for our Search for Healthy Sexuality
We are going on an adventure in search of healthy sexuality, and conquering the societal booby traps that keep us away from embodiment, autonomy, and pleasure! Join hosts Suzy and Krista as they discuss the impediments we all face in our sexual development while centering the conversation around the unique challenges faced by fat folks. This episode is a great place to start on your own quest to become a sexually whole adult. If you like what you hear, consider writing a review and sharing it with others. You can also support the show at Patreon.com/fatandfuckedpodcast.
We would also like to acknowledge that we realized in post-production that there is significant anti-fat bias in how one of the characters is portrayed and treated within the film. The character “Chunk” is classic fat-as-funny fat representation. By centering this episode around this movie, we want to make sure to acknowledge that we are not condoning this type of fat representation and hope for better from filmmakers in the future.
Resources from the episode:
The Goonies - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089218/
Sexual assault statistics - https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence
Testosterone and sex - https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/the-facts-about-testosterone-and-sex
A great discussion of the Orgasm Gap in Becoming Cliterate by Laurie Mintz - https://www.drlauriemintz.com/becoming-cliterate
Among many other things, Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski includes a discussion of Spontaneous vs. Responsive Desire - https://www.emilynagoski.com/home
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