We have a brutal double standard about women’s bodies. When women are larger, we shame them. When they gain weight, we ask ourselves what’s wrong. When they are thinner, we congratulate them. When they become extremely thin, we can become fascinated and also alarmed. In other words: We punish women for taking up space and reward them for disappearing. Larger bodies are treated as a problem to be corrected, while extreme thinness is too often celebrated as an achievement.
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