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She is just expressing how she feels, which is good for women, especially on a subject where so many feel the same way. We will never get anywhere on these issues if we can't be honest about what society/patriarchy/consumer culture has done to the body image of women in this country.
*Laughs herself silly*
So patriarchy, whatever, that is, is the cultprit? And expressing oneself is the solution? Because, of course, we women NEVER talk about these things, and suffer in silence, thinking that we are alone in obsessing about weight. Whereas we should have weight consiciousness-raising sessions in which to be told that it's not our fault we cannot control our own bodies, it's Patriarchy that is to blame.
Really. Sometimes I think that after the Pankhursts, feminism has been nothing but one enourmous wank.
