Somehow a thread about nutrition turned into a thread about calories and then someone said, “I just don’t want to let myself go.” I exited the app with those words in my head. “Letting myself go.” For some reason, I only hear this phrase from or about women, and it always has to do with whether or not they’ve gained weight. Obviously it's full of problematic assumptions: thin is better (not automatically), fat equals unhealthy (so not true), fat equals lazy (almost never), and that it’s somehow part of the job description that you automatically have if you are a woman in this world. It’s not even unspoken. We’re supposed to not “let ourselves go.”
Letting myself go
Letting myself go
Letting myself go
Somehow a thread about nutrition turned into a thread about calories and then someone said, “I just don’t want to let myself go.” I exited the app with those words in my head. “Letting myself go.” For some reason, I only hear this phrase from or about women, and it always has to do with whether or not they’ve gained weight. Obviously it's full of problematic assumptions: thin is better (not automatically), fat equals unhealthy (so not true), fat equals lazy (almost never), and that it’s somehow part of the job description that you automatically have if you are a woman in this world. It’s not even unspoken. We’re supposed to not “let ourselves go.”