200: How fat phobia is rooted in white supremacy, determinants of health, & considerations for your privilege

The Confidence Project Podcast · Jun 23, 2020 · 50m

"Modern fat phobia emerged in America during the 1800s in response to industrialization and globalization, but its broad cultural appeal rested largely on racism and white supremacy.

White, western "scientists" in the 1800s categorized people into social hierarchies on the basis of their distinguishing physical characteristics, including relative fatness. Unsurprisingly, they places white Europeans at the top of this social hierarchy, and their distinguishing physical characteristics – including relative thinness – were deemed to be signs of civilization, and cultural, moral, and intellectual…