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Exactly why do we want to be smaller? What exactly is the
appeal of being smaller? How does it benefit us? Does it make us better
mothers? Better students? Better lovers? Better artists? Scientists? Friends?
Does it make us more badass badasses?
No, no, no, no, no. You must see that it doesn’t. It doesn’t
do anything but make us smaller.
Babies and puppies are small. So are dimes and Skittles.
You’re a fucking woman. A woman! You are entitled to occupy as much fucking
space as you like with your awesomeness, and you better be suspicious as fuck
of anybody who tells you differently.
Why, ladies? Why must we continue to whittle ourselves down? Who is it for?
What is it for? You can walk through a certain aisle at the pharmacy or at the
grocery store and see the language of diminishment all over the packaging for
weight loss aids of all kinds. “Shrink your waist.” “Lose inches off your
thighs.” “Slim down.” “Get skinny.”
How about “Grow your mind.” “Increase your confidence and
productivity.” “Beef up your knowledge.” “Enlarge your scope of asskicking.”
That’s a valid message for women and girls: grow, expand,
branch out, open up, get bigger, wider, faster, stronger, better, smarter. Go
up not down. Get strong, not skinny.
You are not here to get smaller. You are not here to have a
thin waist and thighs. You are not here to disappear. You’re here to change the
world! Change the fucking world, then! Forget about “losing a few pounds.”
Think about what you could be gaining instead.
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