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Oh Helen Lewis, I am so over you. For so long I thought you were a quirky, slightly geeky, rare feminist on the BBC; turns out from a quick Google that you're just yet another lazy clone soldier in the War on Fat People (TM). No, American reality TV isn't a true reflection of the real lives of actual fat people. And arguing that fat people are victims of an obesogenic environment run by Big Junk Food is every bit as patronising and harmful as claiming that they need only grow some willpower and put down the fork. How can someone be so switched on with regard to a wide range of other social justice issues and yet believe everything they're fed on this? Typical lefty blind spot when it comes to seeing fat as a matter of identity, discrimination, human rights and not just a 'health crisis' to be vanquished at any cost.
Oh Helen Lewis, I am so over you. For so long I thought you were a quirky, slightly geeky, rare feminist on the BBC; turns out from a quick Google that you're just yet another lazy clone soldier in the War on Fat People (TM). No, American reality TV isn't a true reflection of the real lives of actual fat people. And arguing that fat people are victims of an obesogenic environment run by Big Junk Food is every bit as patronising and harmful as claiming that they need only grow some willpower and put down the fork. How can someone be so switched on with regard to a wide range of other social justice issues and yet believe everything they're fed on this? Typical lefty blind spot when it comes to seeing fat as a matter of identity, discrimination, human rights and not just a 'health crisis' to be vanquished at any cost.
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