Dear Aubrey, I set my limit for paid substacks to four, (I'm on SS!) but this sample from The Audacity (sounds like a version of How Dare You, which I heard often in my youth!) really grabbed me.
I'm 78. Last year was the 30th anniversary of my book "Fed Up! A Woman's Guide to Freedom from the Diet/Weight Prison (Carroll & Graf, 1993). I wrote it with an obesity researcher at Cornell, Dr. David Levitsky, who had decided from his research that size oppression was unhealthy, not only psychologically, but also physically - 95% of people who lose weight by restrictive dieting gain it back within 5 years - not because they have no will power but because that's how the body reacts to restriction/starvation. Since then I've been an advocate of self/size acceptance, which I'm happy to see has a modern name of body positivity.
So I'm stretching my budget to five subscriptions to support you, (sharing to X and FB) and I'm excited to get to know more of your wisdom and talent. Blessings, Terry
You are correct, Aubrey, dismantling a system that enslaves women is as critical as understanding how generations of girls are subjugated. It is an open economic truth that women's work is non-productive activity that contributes neither to the country’s growth nor to its balance sheet—You can see for yourself in the United Nation’s System of National Accounts (a globally agreed method for calculating the value of human activity) in a chapter entitled “Informal Aspects of the Economy. So it stands to reason that when you count for nothing, it's hard to feel good about yourself. I appreciate how difficult it must be to contextualize these truths in illustrations, but if I keep at it in my fiction and you keep at it in your work we must surely make a difference at some point!
Dear Aubrey, I set my limit for paid substacks to four, (I'm on SS!) but this sample from The Audacity (sounds like a version of How Dare You, which I heard often in my youth!) really grabbed me.
I'm 78. Last year was the 30th anniversary of my book "Fed Up! A Woman's Guide to Freedom from the Diet/Weight Prison (Carroll & Graf, 1993). I wrote it with an obesity researcher at Cornell, Dr. David Levitsky, who had decided from his research that size oppression was unhealthy, not only psychologically, but also physically - 95% of people who lose weight by restrictive dieting gain it back within 5 years - not because they have no will power but because that's how the body reacts to restriction/starvation. Since then I've been an advocate of self/size acceptance, which I'm happy to see has a modern name of body positivity.
So I'm stretching my budget to five subscriptions to support you, (sharing to X and FB) and I'm excited to get to know more of your wisdom and talent. Blessings, Terry
You are correct, Aubrey, dismantling a system that enslaves women is as critical as understanding how generations of girls are subjugated. It is an open economic truth that women's work is non-productive activity that contributes neither to the country’s growth nor to its balance sheet—You can see for yourself in the United Nation’s System of National Accounts (a globally agreed method for calculating the value of human activity) in a chapter entitled “Informal Aspects of the Economy. So it stands to reason that when you count for nothing, it's hard to feel good about yourself. I appreciate how difficult it must be to contextualize these truths in illustrations, but if I keep at it in my fiction and you keep at it in your work we must surely make a difference at some point!