I asked this question on twitter, and received the following answers:
because we only lose weight to look good for men. O_o
Cuz losing weight is, y’know, only to impress dudes. Feminists aren’t supposed to like, care about that. And stuff.
I think feminists aren’t supposed to want to lose weight if it’s for a man or society.
Eh, it’s usually considered better to live in the body you’re in rather than eating only carrots for years.
Now, y’all know me – I didn’t let that last one slide.
Is that it? The assumption that weight loss is, merely, eating carrots for years? B/c after 150+ lbs lost, I don’t do that.
I received the following response:
no, it;s about accepting the body you’re in rather than waiting til you look a certain way. not to mention the whole equate worth w/ body shape thing that hurts women
…to which, I replied:
So you can’t want to change the body you’re in without thinking you’re deficient in some form? There’s no logical or legitimate reason that a woman would seek to change her body without it having to do with some kind of assumed shortcoming?
…and was met with:
We’re just bombarded with so much ‘FAT IS AWFUL’ propaganda that it’s hard to get things unentangled
…where I replied:
So wouldn’t it do the mvmnt better to work on UNtangling the message so that women can, in fact, choose to do what they want with their bodies, instead of feeling solidarity to a questionable message? The idea that a woman can’t care about her own body- regardless of whether or not that means maintaining a 6 or a 16- is bizarre to me when the mvmnt is about choice, IMO.
Y’all better help me out on this one… because the implication that a woman can’t want to lose weight without it being somehow related to patriarchy is damn near more demeaning and harmful to women than the original anti-fat principle in and of itself.