this american life
Though there was useful commentary, deeply personal stories, and some incisive observations, my problem with the episode is that it ultimately repeats a harmful framework:
Fat people (nearly all women) were on trial and up for observation (their privacy already considered non-existent) — not the fatphobic bias that had so clearly shaped their lives.
Every writer has a writer's crush—a person they both want to hang out with and be; someone who, if they were to ever meet them in person,
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