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Kelly writes:
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.
My point, Kelly, is that "so many" don't feel the same way. "So many" -- almost everyone that I know -- stopped obsessing about their weight when they hit their forties (if not before). I don't want people to get the impression that women in their forties are still stuck in the size-two fantasies of their twenties. Most of us aren't.
Those who continue to obsess are the ones hanging on to that "culture of thinness" you abhore. You are giving it life, and that's no good for us or for our children.
