Yet, there is a more subtle form of violence, no less killing, that carves away each day at us. Not when you step back and see that a woman's place has become more than ever on the scale. Our economic mobility, our career advancement, our acceptability to friends and family have become contingent on our success as an ornament. If you have any doubts then let's look together to see how many 250 lb. America seems to be always at war with something these days.
American women are at war with their bodies, and losing.
More American's have died from weight-loss surgery in the last twenty years than died in the Viet Nam War. Three times that number die every year of eating disorders. I will concur, fat is dangerous. Fear of fat, hatred of fat, is hatred of women. Those dips and curves, those breasts and bellies and vulva that are our birthright as women are made of fat.