Adventures in Fat Studies

Williams College biology professor Luana Maroja attended two college-sponsored events on the topic of the hottest new addition to Cultural Marxism — fat studies — and reported back on what she observed via Heterodox STEM.

Regarding the first one:

The event opened with identity: the speaker stated that she identified as “fat, white, and used they/them pronouns.” I learned that “obese,” “BMI,” and “weight” are seen as pejorative terms that should never be used. She added that it was bigoted to suggest that obesity is mainly a lower-socioeconomic-class issue tied to the inability to afford healthy food. This view, we were told, wrongly assumes that the foods fat people eat are unhealthy and that being fat is bad.

Per moonbattery, being fat is not bad, no matter how many years it takes off your life. Saying that it is bad is bad.

Body mass index (BMI), she said, was invented to discriminate against fat people, and its origins lie in capitalism. White people were blamed for creating the notion that “whites are thin” as a way of oppressing black people. Medicine was described as another culprit: there is no such thing, we were told, as a “healthy diet.” Instead, “a healthy diet is what you like to eat.” Further, children were described as having an innate ability to sense how much food and what kind of food they need.

Subsisting on a diet of Ho Hos and Lucky Charms is perfectly healthy. To suggest otherwise is to commit the thought crime of fatphobia.

The speaker reminds us that Cultural Marxism is intersectional, barking:

“Whenever we are talking about anti-fatness, we are also talking about white supremacy.”

The other event showed just how intersectional:

It was billed as “A conversation on Blackness, Queerness, Gender, Fatness, Disabilities and Their Intersections.” …

Because the content was somewhat disjointed, I will share some direct quotes. We were told that “fatness was invented to prepare individuals for war by the Nazis” (though the speaker later added that it was invented by the slave trade). “Body fascism is now practiced in France, USA, Israel and Britain.” “The ideal body is militarized to displace and violate black people.” “Fat fascism is about the subjugation of the slave and slave-adjacent (Palestinians).” “The Jewish body is imposed on Palestinians by starvation and the denial of junk food [which is the kind of food they would like to eat].” “This subjugation did not begin with Trump; it began with democracy and those elected to represent society.” Michelle Obama’s healthy-lunch initiatives were cited as a pre-Trump example. “Fatphobia is the making of the slave.” “Fatness has been projected onto African flesh.” “You are not men or women; you are just fat or thin in a ship hold” (referring to slave ships). “After Nazis, COVID, HIV, [and] slaves, one must prove they are fit and not crippled—this is how ableism started.” “Nationalists don’t believe cripples have the right to exist.”

Et cetera.

This lunacy is not limited to fatuous liberal arts pursuits:

Editor’s note: As documented in these pages, this postmodern nonsense has spread into STEMM [Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine]. For example, the Inclusivity Style Guide of the American Chemical Society asks authors to avoid such phrases as “people affected by obesity,” “obesity is a public health crisis,” and “healthy-weight participants were more likely to experience this effect than the participants at an unhealthy weight.” A pamphlet published by the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health claims that public health anti-obesity campaigns are an example of “fatphobia,” that public health’s “focus on body size is rooted in racism,” that “higher weight is not causal to worse health outcomes,” and that “focusing on weight ignores systematic injustices.” And then people are surprised by the loss of public trust in science and academia…

Again we see that progressives have nothing but contempt for our well-being or for factual reality, and that anything they infiltrate they subvert and reduce to farce.

On a tip from R F. Hat tip: Frontpage Magazine.

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