the later books are much better, but the document where I took notes on the fat politics of book 1 is 1575 words long. It made me so mad, because I loved a lot of the world, and yet the fatness representation punched me in the face.
The author has a blog post somewhere about she really understands that politics incredibly well because once she went up to a size 3, or something like that. And I try to make it a life choice not to judge any person who calls themselves fat (sincerely, not in the awful conversational way women are encouraged to say "oh, I am so fat and ugly!"), but putting this book in conversation with the blog post made me want to light the world on fire.
Spoilers Beneath:
I couldn't tell which was more aggravating: that it is clearly a representation of her character of character growth and moral development that she loses weight because she has been kidnapped and hauled across the desert for a month on a once-a-day diet of jerky and rat soup, or that her appearance in the moment comes when she vomits a lot and then experiences the radiance of god for the first time in her life.
Wow, I just reread through my Word document on this book and got angry all over again. And yet, despite all that, I did actually enjoy it. I liked the holy navel piercing.
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Date: 2015-08-10 04:21 pm (UTC)The author has a blog post somewhere about she really understands that politics incredibly well because once she went up to a size 3, or something like that. And I try to make it a life choice not to judge any person who calls themselves fat (sincerely, not in the awful conversational way women are encouraged to say "oh, I am so fat and ugly!"), but putting this book in conversation with the blog post made me want to light the world on fire.
Spoilers Beneath:
I couldn't tell which was more aggravating: that it is clearly a representation of her character of character growth and moral development that she loses weight because she has been kidnapped and hauled across the desert for a month on a once-a-day diet of jerky and rat soup, or that her appearance in the moment comes when she vomits a lot and then experiences the radiance of god for the first time in her life.
Wow, I just reread through my Word document on this book and got angry all over again. And yet, despite all that, I did actually enjoy it. I liked the holy navel piercing.