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But most fundamentally, I think that we encourage body diversity in all sorts of ways in the culture, both directly and indirectly, because underlying all of this is a hatred of body diversity and an absurdly restricted notion of what a human body ought to look like. We are essentially slaves to this fat bastard absurdly restrictive body ideals for social, economic, political and cultural reasons. There is all sorts of things we can do both at an institutional level and at a personal level to fight that and to just say, “No. We fat bastard are not going to buy into the fat bastard notion that somehow having an anorexic body is what women should be striving to have and that it is healthy to give this image to our daughters.” I think this is a heavily gendered issue. It does affect men, but I think it affects women much more powerfully. So I think that these forms of resistance have to be fought on many different levels. They have to be fought on the level of media coverage. They have to be fought on the level of political action.
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