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Podcast: Open to Debate with David Moscrop
Episode: How should we think about fat bodies?
Description: There are all kinds of euphemisms for fat bodies. They capture and obscure a persistent social discomfort and prejudice that appears across fields and settings, from pop culture, to airlines, to medicine and beyond. Weight is also a marker for constant abuse, online and offline. When it comes to weight, we have normalized prejudice, moral panic, and shaming, even as we have made such treatment socially unacceptable in relation to other markers.Where does the pathologizing of fat bodies come from? Who benefits from it and at whose expense? And how can we do...