Livre d'Or

Hey,

I think you may have misunderstood my misunderstanding of CC (partly because 'or' should read 'of'). I think her point is about the experience of being a fat person. She is rightly worried about the unhelpful, moralising, pseudo-medical stuff, but she wants a fat activism that isn't about challenging medical orthodoxy on obesity.

The thought might be this. People are embodied things. A person can be touched, pushed, hugged, pinched and punched. As a fat person your body, and thus for non-dualists you, is seen as a problem or as broken in someway. This somehow denies you agency (that's vague). You don't experience the world as a normatively bodied person would. You are sort of othered and queered. Now, I get the impression Dr Cooper wants to embrace that otherness, but that, she thinks, requires a fat activism that does more than champion the possibility of health at any size. Probably, it involves rejecting the idea of health in terms of poorly functioning systems, because you reject the idea of a body as a system.

very vague, sorry.