|
|
Article: The Perils of 'Fat Acceptance': density-as-destiny and other myths.(Culture Watch)
- Article from:
- National Review
- Article date:
- November 24, 2003
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
ON my office wall hangs a framed New Yorker cartoon of a map of the United States that labels the entire country "Too Fat," save for the dot designating Los Angeles as "Too Skinny." I chose it as a parody both of the field in which I work--health and nutrition--and of the area in which I live: Malibu, California. Camryn Manheim, author of Wake Up, I'm Fat!, described Southern California as a place "where people shop for groceries in bikinis." What for fat people are "the two most terrifying things in the world, shopping for food and being practically naked, these sun-soaked creatures do simultaneously."
Which is why I thought this Land of the Lean a curious ...