The author Kate Manne....
Posted on 01/28/2024 3:14:31 PM PST by Rummyfan
REVIEW: 'Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia' by Kate Manne
Events of the last several months (if not years or decades) have amply demonstrated the moral and intellectual rot at the heart of our elite academic institutions. Ivy League universities in particular have become quasi-religious cults (attached to billion-dollar hedge funds) less interested in teaching than they are in preaching their gospel of radical nonsense. Their professional inhabitants are somehow even more out of touch with average Americans than are the self-righteous journalists who cover politics for a living.
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Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia was written by Kate Manne, a feminist philosophy expert and author of two other books about misogyny and "male privilege," respectively. Prospect magazine named her one of "the world's 50 top thinkers" in 2019 alongside Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Greta Thunberg. She self-identifies as a "small fat," as opposed to a "large fat," "superfat," or "infinifat," and other terms from the "fat studies" lexicon you didn't know existed.
Manne could have written an interesting book challenging the conventional wisdom that being fat is bad for your health. Most scientists seem to agree that it is, but if the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything it's that so-called scientific experts don't really know what they're talking about and are prone to make authoritative pronouncements for purely political reasons. Manne cites other studies that found the relationship between fatness and health to be more "complicated" than we think, and there's probably some truth to that.
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The author Kate Manne....
I used to be fat.
Couldn’t stand to look in the mirrors
So I did something about it.
I got rid of the mirrors.........
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I’ll take Pointless Pontificating Professions for $500, Alex.
LOL! That works too!
Fatphobia. Be afraid. Be VERY afraid!
Nobody is *afraid* of fat or fat people. But they do resent being forced to "accept" it or pretend it's not unhealthy.
Oh, wow, stellar company!
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Feminist gurl needs to change her last name.
All this identity junk, this BS self esteem garbage has gone to the point of absurd. Of course today EVERYONE wants to be a victim.
Being weak and pathetic is a virtue.
And this nations top athlete of the year award goes to the late Chris Farley: https://youtu.be/stqG2ihMvP0?si=-u4vN9s58QsHNQkX
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