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You Just Need to Lose Weight: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon
7 reviews
amberinpieces's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia
Moderate: Eating disorder and Dysphoria
Minor: Ableism, Homophobia, Racism, Slavery, Transphobia, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Colonisation, and Classism
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
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.
dillsbookdiary's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia
Moderate: Bullying, Eating disorder, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Minor: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Classism
katekatiekait's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Body shaming
Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Racism, Transphobia, and Dysphoria
Minor: Police brutality, Colonisation, Dysphoria, and Classism
abitbetterbooks's review against another edition
4.75
This book does a great job of moving through issues in a really thorough manner. My only issue with the book was that because each myth/chapter was self contained or could be read in isolation / out of order, there were some elements that were repeated that felt unnecessary when listening through the whole thing in chronological order. But even still, that did serve to continue driving some key points home. As someone who considers herself fairly well versed in fat liberation & fat studies, diet culture & eating disorders, I still found myself learning new things! In particular I found that Gordon has a way of perfectly wording things and distilling big themes and issues down to key elements that would be really helpful to have in ones arsenal to confront anti-fatness wherever you may Glen counter it!
Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia
Moderate: Ableism
Minor: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Medical content, Acephobia/Arophobia, Colonisation, and Classism
throwback682's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexism, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Classism, and Deportation