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"The message we often hear from society is that weight is highly controllable, but the best science in the obesity field at the moment suggests that one's physiology and genetics, as well as the food environment, are the really big players in one's weight status and weight loss. Weight status actually appears rather uncontrollable, regardless of one's willpower, knowledge and dedication. Yet many people who are perceived as 'fat' are struggling in vain to lose weight in order to escape this painful social stigma."
- Dr Kerry O'Brien, University of Manchester School of Psychological Sciences, Women can't escape obesity stigma. (Emphases mine)

ETA: "This is the culture that Glamour and its ilk have helped to build — a culture that is relentlessly critical of women's bodies, a culture that considers women's bodies public property open to debate, a culture that trains women to turn this criticism on themselves, and to accept and internalize every comment, opinion, observation and judgment on their bodies no matter who it comes from."
- Glamour Is Shocked (Emphasis mine)

Continuous surveillance + unpredictable attacks = psychological destruction = bullying

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Lots of people on my flist writing their bums off at the mo. Good on you, the lot of you! :D