Is the future full of Americans who watch their weight? Fat chance — a southwestern college is poised to prevent it.
For Spring 2024, the University of New Mexico (UNM) is offering a three-credit course on a societal scourge. The ailment: anti-fatness. Evidently, the heavy situation is one of social construction. From the official description, courtesy of Campus Reform:
Welcome to…Introduction to Fat Studies! This course will consider the structural forces that construct fatness as problematic — as diseased, gross, dirty, lazy, gluttonous, and other negative characteristics — thereby reinforcing anti-fatness.
Did white people invent our anti-fat fallacy? It seems so:
We will explore the historical development of anti-fatness and its roots in colonialism, (and) discover the ways in which capitalism benefits from anti-fatness…
