Victor Villas reviewed You Just Need to Lose Weight by Aubrey Gordon
Very approachable yet uncomfortable as it should
5 stars
As someone who always carried a lot of ingrained anti-fatness beliefs and biases, reading this book was a great way to breach the subject. The author does a remarkable job at adding nuance to existing preconceptions and the didactic end-of-chapter calls to action and introspection were very fruitful - or so I like to think.
In the end I'm not "cured" of being deeply anti-fatness biased, but I am a little bit more aware of why some things just feel uncomfortable and why it's so hard to not be judgmental of people based on this single bodily characteristic. Something society has to grasp repeatedly, as if every new aspect it's an entirely different thesis, but Aubrey Gordon nails it: here's another structure of oppression.