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You Just Need to Lose Weight: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon
14 reviews
claudiajanette's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Fatphobia
Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Police brutality, Medical trauma, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Transphobia and Acephobia/Arophobia
msgslibrary's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Genocide, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Grief, Colonisation, and Classism
mayaelisheva's review
5.0
Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Mental illness
ankerrigan's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia
Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Misogyny, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Minor: Ableism, Racism, Transphobia, Police brutality, and Toxic friendship
maddamreads's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Racism, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Ableism and Sexual assault
Minor: Eating disorder
Explicitly talks about the experiences of fat people and direct and indirect fat-bias/fat-based discrimination. Please sit in the discomfort of reflection. Those with past eating disorders or body dysmorphia may want to proceed with caution-do what is best for you.toriffic's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Ableism, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Hate crime
Minor: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Lesbophobia, Cultural appropriation, Dysphoria, and Deportation
bambooboy's review against another edition
5.0
There are years of works available to us, shouting the dangers of anti-fat bias, the lies we are told; but Aubrey Gordon lays it out, step-by-step, in a way that is accessible and digestible. It solicits empathy in its honesty. Gordon does a great job too of offering other equally important titles of equally important voices on fat people and the history and now of how we treat each other.
I wish I could shove this into the hands of everyone I meet! I kept reading passages and rereading them and wanting to post them but then realizing I'd be posting the entire chapter because that's how good every single chapter was.
If you're a fan of Maintenance Phase you'll love this, though be aware that tonally it isn't as silly as her and Michael get together. It's much more serious. And if you're not a fan of Maintenance Phase but like this book, you should check out Gordon's podcast! They dive deep into different health crazes/diet books/health "influencers". They have a great chemistry and it's a good way to both laugh and rage at the machine.
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria
Moderate: Chronic illness, Hate crime, Sexism, Gaslighting, and Colonisation
Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual harassment, and Classism
Deeper discussion of content warnings below cut.She also gets into some specific stories about people who were disabled or died due to this malpractice. As a fat person Gordon also talks about all the aggressions, micro and macro, that she experiences or has experienced.
Overall the content is heavy, and I definitely suggest taking it slow, especially if you are someone who has had to deal with these traumatic experiences on the daily.
carlaah1984's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia
Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Classism
redefiningrachel's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Fatphobia, Racism, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Classism
Minor: Addiction and Cursing
knit_the_resistance's review against another edition
4.0
However.
If I'm not mistaken, the book is a series of blog posts or essays strung together. Or at least that's how they read. Rarely have I listened to a book that needed editing for continuity more. It is so intensely repetitive --even within the same essay, let alone among chapters, that it was hard to maintain attention at times.
The author relies on the wire deep and deeply. I found myself counting the repetitions. Frustrating, because I like the podcast.
But the podcast feels like haranguing, and the book feels like the podcast. So. I didn't love it, but it's important.
One minor comment: the last chapter deals with "fat phobia is the last sanctioned form of discrimination" but goes on to discuss the countless other forms of discrimination in American society. It very pointedly does not mention antisemitism, which I found an interesting oversight.
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Transphobia, Medical content, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria