Fit People are “Complicit with White Supremacy and Patriarchy,” Author Claims


I almost kind of feel like the point of this material is to fill space on the Ben Shapiro podcast so no one starts asking uncomfortable questions.

You know?

I’ve never actually met anyone who said anything like this.

But I also don’t talk to women.

New York Post:

A weight culture journalist said during an interview Tuesday that fitness-minded people working on a thin body type are “complicit with white supremacy and patriarchy.”

Author Virginia Sole-Smith told NPR’s “Fresh Air” podcast that United States society’s desire to be skinny — and adversity to fatness — can be traced to the end of American slavery as a way of preserving out-of-touch, white beauty standards.

“The thin ideal is definitely a white ideal. When we trace the history of modern diet culture, we really trace it back in the United States to the end of slavery,” Sole-Smith told host Tonya Mosley while promoting her new book, “Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture.”

Virginia Sole-Smith holding her new book

Obviously, white supremacy is trying to maintain the power structure. So celebrating a thin white body as the ideal body is a way to ‘other’ and demonize black and brown bodies, bigger bodies, anyone who doesn’t fit into that norm. So this is really about maintaining systems of white supremacy and patriarchy.”

“If you can understand that, actually, by continuing to pursue thinness you are in some level, maintaining your complicity with white supremacy and patriarchy,” she added.

Women, like the Jews, will never stop demanding things.

It’s like bitch, you’re fat. In most places in the country, it’s pretty much a certainty that if I started insulting you in public I’d end up in jail somehow. Either because I’m accused of being a public nuisance, or because some man on the street attacks me in defense of fat princesses everywhere and then I get charged for attacking him.

Like, I d0n’t have the right to not look at your fat ass. You’ve taken that from me. At what point have you sucked enough blood from society?