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Why would losing weight be anti-feminist?
May. 27th, 2021 04:38 pmApparently there are people who think that it is unfeminist to want to avoid being fat.
I am not entirely certain why. Being fat is bad for you, and not just because it's a major risk factor for a bad COVID-19 result. It's better not to be, if you can manage it. There is stuff about "unhealthy beauty standards", and I do remember the models of the 90s and early 2000s, who were indeed shockingly and unhealthily underweight. But as far as I am aware, that is no longer considered the beauty standard anywhere, except possibly among South Korean pop stars of either sex. And obviously there are ways to lose weight that are sensible, and ways that aren't. But the precise chain of logic that connects all of this with feminism remains unclear. I have a vague sense that a middle has been fallaciously excluded, somewhere.
For any human being, being either overweight or underweight has higher health risks (and is also physically unattractive). It may be easy or difficult to achieve the happy medium of a healthy, or if you like, lowest-health-risk weight from either end of the gradation, but it's a worthy goal for anyone, male or female. Being fat makes every medical problem worse, just from the added strain on the body. None of this has anything to do with being a feminist or not.
I am not entirely certain why. Being fat is bad for you, and not just because it's a major risk factor for a bad COVID-19 result. It's better not to be, if you can manage it. There is stuff about "unhealthy beauty standards", and I do remember the models of the 90s and early 2000s, who were indeed shockingly and unhealthily underweight. But as far as I am aware, that is no longer considered the beauty standard anywhere, except possibly among South Korean pop stars of either sex. And obviously there are ways to lose weight that are sensible, and ways that aren't. But the precise chain of logic that connects all of this with feminism remains unclear. I have a vague sense that a middle has been fallaciously excluded, somewhere.
For any human being, being either overweight or underweight has higher health risks (and is also physically unattractive). It may be easy or difficult to achieve the happy medium of a healthy, or if you like, lowest-health-risk weight from either end of the gradation, but it's a worthy goal for anyone, male or female. Being fat makes every medical problem worse, just from the added strain on the body. None of this has anything to do with being a feminist or not.
