s.e. smith at Tiger Beatdown: NPR and Their Fat Hatred Can Kiss My Hairy Ass
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The overall tone of this series is not just negative, it’s hateful. It’s dehumanising. It doesn’t do anything to confront and challenge the stigma surrounding fatness, to force listeners and readers to think about how they frame and consider fat. It certainly doesn’t do anything to point out other fat experiences, although allegedly there’s ‘a piece’ with fat activists planned at some point. A piece. A single piece. Just one. Which is apparently supposed to magically counteract the entire balance of this series, which repeatedly tells listeners that fat is bad and evil and wrong, complete with weight loss tips in almost every installment.
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