Fatphobia dressed up with a glossy 'Live, Laugh, Love' font is still fatphobia
,” which vibrated if she ate too quickly. Even outside of the products, it’s become common advice among nutritionists that eating from smaller plates will trick one’s brain into eating less and still feeling full. While some of these products advertise themselves as helpful tools for people who’ve undergone bariatric surgery or have other medical needs , most of them are clear that they’re for weight loss.
It’s nearly impossible to separate the desire to lose weight from the insidious societal forces insisting that everyone do so, especially because most of these products and tools are aimed towards women. After all, the plates didn’t say “dad jeans.” Dieting is highly feminized, and for many women, losing weight to “feel good” in your body is intrinsically linked to a social standard dictating that the only way to feel good is to be thin.
Plates like these can also exacerbate the low-level disordered eating: Anorexia “involves fastidious attention to detail when it comes to calories and macronutrients, as well as massively restricted opportunities to eat,”.
The Macy’s plates are weird and nonsensical , but they also express our national past time of critiquing women’s bodies. The pressure for us to be skinny, to eat less, to avoid looking like a “mom” is so ambient that it feels almost natural to read a joke about it while you’re helping yourself to casserole.
It’s good that Macy’s removed them, but that they thought they were a good idea in the first place is the bigger problem.
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