a feminist professor was shocked to find out that women do not view gaining 100lbs as liberating
she concluded that the patriarchy is at fault for the strong sense of revulsion the women she polled felt towards obesity
there is hope for the future
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An Arizona State University professor has expressed disappointment at the results of a study she conducted with around 20 women, all of whom consider gaining 100 pounds to be a negative thing. She expected them to embrace her views of fatness as a “liberatory” experience.
Breanne Fahs, a self-described “fat woman” who teaches Women and Gender Studies at ASU, was dismayed by the study in which “no participants described gaining 100 pounds as a positive thing to imagine.”
Campus Reform reported Thursday that the professor — who describes fatness as “liberatory” from the shackles of patriarchal society — claims that obesity is only considered unattractive because of “patriarchy, sexism, and oppression of women.”
She claims that women were more afraid of becoming obese than actually living with obesity.
Fahs published her findings in an article for the Women’s Studies International Forum, where she wrote that “the fear of fatness is far more extreme, exaggerated, and terrible than the lived realities of living in a fat body.”
She notes that in her survey, four women “shrieked in disgust” or “started laughing uncontrollably” when she asked them what they thought of gaining 100 pounds instantly. Unsurprisingly, the participants believed she was joking when she asked the question.
Fahs was also upset by the fact that none of the women she surveyed considered obesity to be positive in any way whatsoever, and that “no women identified fatness as physically or personally important (even hypothetically).” In other words, the women did not like the idea of becoming obese.
The professor says that fatness shouldn’t be seen as a negative quality because “feminist theory” suggests that the stigmatization of obesity is “connected to patriarchy, sexism, and the oppression of women.”
“That women did not identify the liberatory, political, or social implications of fatness seemed to reveal much about the contemporary framing of fatness as purely negative and solely based in stigma,” she claims.