Despite the well-documented emotional and mental damage of diet culture, talk of diets is still prevalent. This article discusses the incessant shaming and policing of women's bodies, as well as the harmful portrayal of body image in media.
At this time of year, talk of diets is impossible to avoid, despite most failing and the well-documented emotional and mental damage of diet culture . Most millennial women can recall the incessant, vitriolic shaming and policing of women’s bodies throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Many images are burned into our brains.
There was the labelling of characters like Martine McCutcheon’s secretary in Bridget Jones as fat – the latter portrayal proving particularly egregious, as the film itself showed the character weighing under 10 stone, creating a terrifying metric against which women could measure themselves. Sporting a pair of now on-trend high-waisted jeans at a concert in Texas in 2009 that led to headlines calling her “Jumbo Jessica”, and suggesting that she had “let herself go” despite being obviously thinner than the average woman
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