A review by emmas_bookshelf
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I would love it if everyone - maybe especially thin / straight-size folks - would read this book. Aubrey does a great job combining research studies and citations with anecdotes and personal stories (from herself and also pulled from news articles) to dismantle several myths about anti-fatness. While some topics weren’t new to me (like the BMI is trash), others were (like why fatphobia isn’t a good or accurate term and anti-fat bias or anti-fatness is better). One of the best things is how the book is broken into 20 relatively short chapters so you can take as many breaks to sit with and reflect on the information as you need. Highly recommend.