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The girls/women discuss Kate Manne’s new book on fatphobia, Unshrinking, and its recent excerpt in The Cut.Also, who has done more for body positivity: feminists or the Kardashians? Are anorexic models the result of gay men controlling the fashion industry? And why did everyone start to get fat in the 1980s? Is it because food became laced with preservatives and endocrine disruptors? (Or do we blame working moms?) Finally, is nutrition a real science or a dark art?

RELEVANT LINKS

“Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia” by Kate Manne.

Kate Manne’s book excerpt in The Cut.

“Fat positivity is a fantasy” by Kat Rosenfield for Unherd.

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