A woman’s individual preoccupation with weight often serves as a mask for other, more intricate sources of discomfort, the state of one’s waistline being easier to contemplate than the state of one’s soul … how much self-acceptance she does or does not possess, how much pleasure she feels permitted to have, how much anxiety or guilt or shame her hungers arouse - these are the kinds of issues a woman may bring to the scale.

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Appetites by Caroline Knapp (via skirtingtheline)

This feels really relevant right now.

(via riotsnotdiets)

(Source: shetakesflight, via feministsunitedoncampus)

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