AJ discusses Aubrey Gordon’s recent nonfiction release: You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People. Digressions include recent movies, our newfound disdain for Ottessa Moshfegh, and how Fat Amy was the blueprint. Content warning that this episode has brief discussions of disordered eating, calorie counts, and general body image issues.
Theme music by seven-time state bird.
Books:
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
You Just Need to Lose Weight & 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon
Quit Like a Woman by Holly Whitaker
Crescent City series by Sarah J Maas
Electric Idols by Katee Robert
Other Media:
No Hard Feelings (2023) (spoilers)
Mean Girls (2024)
Real Women Have Curves (musical based on HBO series based on a book)
Sources:
Fatphobia is the literary world’s final frontier
Ottessa Moshfegh Is Praying for Us
3 Reasons to Find a Better Term Than “Phobia” to Describe Oppression
