Prof shocked to find that women don't want to gain 100 lbs

“That women did not identify the liberatory, political, or social implications of fatness seemed to reveal much about the contemporary framing of fatness as purely negative and solely based in stigma,” she writes, later adding that “thin women imagining fatness mostly see it in highly unrealistic (and intensely dreadful terms) rather than in more moderated, realistic terms.”

“If fat women in particular are to have dignity, respect, and pride about their bodies,” then “a more realistic understanding of weight gain is crucial to that goal,” she adds, concluding that “interventions that seek to lessen or buffer the intensity of women's fear of weight gain could impact not only fat women's lives, but all women's lives.”

Campus Reform reached out to Fahs for comment, but did not receive a response.

>>171311
>Women did not identify the liberators, political or social implications of fatness
They did, that is why they chose not to be fat. Honestly, the hell did she expect? You give people the choice of looking like the idealized image of beauty or average to below average and they will always choose to be attractive. No one wants to be ugly.

Adding on to what >>171318 said, wouldn't it be a greater liberator to be attractive enough to be able to tell men off, rather than men looking at you in a disgusted manner or straight-up avoiding you? You'd think that the best way to"smash the patriarchy" would be to deny men "what they want most in a woman".

>>171309
Well, surprise surprise the professor is a fatty.

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/977917

>>171309
Apart from the obvious ugly part of being fat, it is also not healthy.
Being fat is seen as ugly because you are not heatlhy, an unhealthy person is not an attractive person because you wouldn't want to make an offspring with someone with bad genes.
Also more heart disease, more cholesterol and in general less long life expectancy.
So no it is not 'shocking' that they dont want to get fat.

>>171591
Once upon a time a fat man was desirable because he was wealthy. Once upon a time a fat woman was considered the best for child birth. These days overweight is associated with laziness and over indulgence. Form defines function. Function defines form.

>>171579
Exactly. The whole smash the patriarchy angle is just a facade. Within it is just bitter people who want a way to be accepted for something that may or may not be within their control. I honestly feel for them and want everyone to find their own happiness, but forcing or tricking others into treating you differently is going to make things so much worse when they catch on. For anyone going through something like this, and I know 4chan may be the worst place for this, the best advice I can give is to learn a skill, get a hobby, anything where you will meet like minded people who will accept you for who you are. In the end, maybe the fat acceptance movement, for all of its bluster, is just a way for these people to have a group they feel they belong to.

>>171603
>a fat woman was considered ideal
This is a lie that needs to die. Obese women were never attractive. Look at art, which should display the idealized proportions of the Era it was made in. How many renaissance paintings do you see of morbidly obese women? How many greek statues? How many cave paintings? The only times you can even make a case for this is with fertility idols, but that can be explained as them being pregnant.

Here's her faculty page

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/977917

>>171309
>fatness as a "liberatory" experience

i.e. if obesity is normalized I won't have to feel shame for being an unhealthy lard-ass with no self-control. I'll bet she'd love a Harrison Bergeron type scenario where everyone is force fed to be fat.

>Fahs also bemoans the fact that not a single woman in the study mentioned any positive aspects of fatness

It's unhealthy, it limits your physical capability, people look down on you, you feel shitty about yourself. What positive aspects does she think there are?

>Fahs lives in a time where food is so abundant she can stuff her face until she balloons to 300+ lbs while complaining about the social inconvenience of her own decisions
>Instead of putting down the fork, she seeks to make everyone else a landwhale so that she can finally not be the most disgusting creature in the room

>>171611
>>171610

Wouldn't that be based on the perception of what is fat? Sort of like how the average stocky American is viewed as a fat ass in asian countries. And that its the fems just exploiting this to mean obese = beautiful when it was really chubby that was considered a person of high standing.

yeah because getting fat is totally good for your health and enables you to do so many things

As someone who has spent more years working in research than most users here have spent on this website, I actually have a perverse admiration for anyone who can write and push through a grant proposal for something so obviously useless.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W6qvJp4zPlY