#bodypositivity activists have gone full-on manic over the past few years trying to reconcile their annoying inner desires to not be physically repulsive blobs by utilizing what many consider to be the golden opportunity to lose weight with little work and almost no lifestyle adjustments — the glutton’s divine grail — with their stated belief that looking like a beached whale is an act of self-empowerment.
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Square nail, meet round opening.
Fady Shanouda, a” critical illness research researcher,” who has quite the genealogy, is Exhibit A of this ideological battle within the large group.
I am a critical scholar of disability studies who uses feminist new materialism to examine the experiences of disabled and mad students in higher education. My scholarly contributions lie at the theoretical and pedagogical intersections of disability, mad, and fat studies and include socio-historical examinations that surface the interconnections of colonialism, racism, ableism, sanism, and queer- and transphobia. I have published scholarly articles on disability-related issues in higher education, on Canadian disability history, and on community-based learning. At Carleton University’s Pauline Jewett Institute of Women and Gender Studies, I work as an assistant professor. I conduct this research diversely-positioned as a disabled, fat, POC, immigrant and settler who is living, working and creating on the ancestral and traditional territories of the Algonquin nation.
Jiminy Cricket! What a mouthful.
As he/she/it — I’m not trying to be mean, but I literally can’t tell based on its profile picture ( in the link above ) what sex it’s supposed to be, and it probably doesn’t know either — is very evidently a bona fide expert on all things Social Justice™, let’s let it explain the intersection, as it were, between pharmaceutical solutions for modern living and fatphobia.
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Via The Conversation (emphasis added ):
Time and again, dubious and ineffective solutions for obesity gain prominence. Pills, tonics, elixirs, Zumba, Noom and now Ozempic.
The most recent wonder drug, a semaglutide drug developed to aid diabetics in blood glucose regulation, has the unfortunate side-effect of severe weight loss, which off-label medication is prescribed for. Many have predicted that it will result in the elimination of fat bodies*.
The fatphobia that underlies such a declaration is not new.
What makes this moment different from the others, however, is the dangerous rhetoric in which it is lodged. This rhetoric elevates the banal and accepted fat-shaming that fat people must endure and resist to an unprecedented level.
* I have been unable to get to the bottom of the origin of this unsettling jargon, but for whatever reason Social Justice™ activists and academics refuse to refer to people as “people”, instead, “people” has been replaced with “bodies”.
These “bodies” and those “bodies” — all manner of “bodies” — are discriminated against in various ways, or, in this case, “eliminated” via a kind of fat genocide unleashed somehow by Ozempic.
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