men and women

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > Right.  American workers are given fantasies of fit
>>  bodies by
>>  Hollywood, rather than high wages, national health
>>  care, & vacation
>>  days when they can exercise.
>>
>>  Yoshie
>
>This made me think of a Phil Gramm quote I saw the
>other day: "Has anyone ever noticed that we live in
>the only country in the world where all the poor
>people are fat?"  The "unfit" body can have political
>relevance as a target for stigma (lazy, ugly, etc.).
>
>Alec

Artists like John Waters & Jennifer Reeder have made careers riffing 
on the stigma of the "unfit."

That said, one can't quite embrace all degrees of obesity as one may 
embrace dark skin & nappy hair, small hips & almond eyes, and so on 
(which have been also stigmatized as "ugly" by racists), for too much 
fat can have dire health consequences.  In many tribes, for instance, 
morbidity & mortality from diabetes are high, due to poor diets & 
environments that settler colonialism has forced upon them.  In 
short, one can't reject physical fitness altogether as just another 
instance of the "tyranny of normalization."

Yoshie