and not to sound like a conspiracy theorist but another reason I hate the return of 2000’s th*nspo shit is bc starving does make women frail and has longer term consequences like early osteoporosis, brittle bones/teeth, insomnia, ect. Your muscles will start eating themselves. It also makes you extremely emotional and severely lowers your capacity for critical thinking not bc you’re a girl but because your brain isn’t getting any fucking nutrients so idk I just feel like its very convenient that every time there’s an uptick in fascist rhetoric and women’s rights are being stripped suddenly it’s peak fashion for women to be starving, weak, and exhausted
It's not a conspiracy in that there's no one going, "we should make this popular SO THAT it's easier to achieve our goals of......" It's happening now because the philosophical drives and beliefs that motivate and underpin fat phobia and praise thin-ness are the same ones that motivate and underpin misogyny and fascism: that there are some bodies that are more worthy than others. This idea plays out on all dimensions, race, gender, transness, class, weight, disability, etc. The other belief is that something can and should be done about this disparity. This leads to weight loss drugs, stripping women's rights, Jim Crow and slavery, and everything else. (Obviously not to say that these effects are equitable in terms of harm and history, but just that they share some common denominators in beliefs).
















