Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

You Just Need to Lose Weight: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon

43 reviews

dziggetai's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Medical trauma

cardlikecredit's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

Minor: Medical content

qteabeans's review against another edition

challenging informative fast-paced

4.0

A good primer on anti-fatness and weightism. Gordon cites her sources and ties in other people's work and voices. Clear voice and consistency of messaging. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming

Moderate: Racism, Homophobia, Classism, Death, Chronic illness, Xenophobia, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Bullying, Eating disorder, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Transphobia, Sexual harassment, Ableism, and Acephobia/Arophobia

cheaploaf's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

Very informative book. Easy to read and understand, not too academic. Covers a lot of issues adjacent to anti fat bias including racism, anti trans bias, etc. A good reference book to use to argue points. I think my .25 knock off is mostly there because at times it was a little repetitive, and I know Aubrey mentions that it’s kind of supposed to be sectioned so that you don’t have to read the whole book through and can just go to diff chapters for certain references/answers. But at times it did make it hard for me to read a bunch at once, but familiar mentions can be skimmed through. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Ableism, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

caitlynlargent's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

Very informative, well researched, and well written. A little less than 4 stars because I felt that a lot of the information was recycled during the different “myths”. While there is bound to be some connection, at times I felt like I had hit rewind on accident because I was hearing the same things. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Medical trauma, Racism, Sexism, and Misogyny

Minor: Sexual violence, Homophobia, and Transphobia

dnlrbchd's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia

Moderate: Eating disorder

meldasilas's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Child abuse, Ableism, Medical content, Misogyny, and Medical trauma

mystic319's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

I think this book is an excellent primer on antifatness, and it was clearly researched thoroughly. It is more detached from Aubrey's usual wit and charm on Matienance Phase, as it hones in on the science quite a bit more than on the personal. I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with that, but it did make the chapters feel overloaded with a lot of information in a relatively short span of time. I also found some of the information redundant, though that is probably intentional in a book geared towards people who may have no prior exposure to antifatness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, and Ableism

Moderate: Eating disorder, Police brutality, and Sexual harassment

ttorisaurus's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Eating disorder, Dysphoria, Racism, and Sexism

herbodyslikeamodernart's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

everyone should read this. only docking 0.5 because occasionally her writing is roundabout and she could’ve gotten to her point more directly and stronger.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder

calories/weight loss are discussed in detail but she gives warnings at the beginning of explicit chapters- helpful for those like me in ed recovery