Fat people

Tuesday

Cockburn

Conservatives should cheer Dove’s new ‘fat liberation’ spokesperson

Zyahna Bryant, a “fat acceptance” and Black Lives Matter activist, has been named the new face (and body?) of Dove, the company known primarily for its soaps. Conservatives are up in arms over the new campaign, and a Dylan Mulvaney-style boycott has begun among conservative consumers opposed to "wokeness" and also to Bryant’s role in attempting to get fellow University of Virginia student Morgan Bettinger expelled from UVA for “racist” comments she didn’t make. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwnKlIGybvO/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=ddb08da2-6f29-4243-b80e-e93e92bba4ee Newsweek provides a brief recap of Bryant’s unsuccessful headhunt: “In the summer of 2020, Bryant claimed that she heard Bettinger refer to BLM protesters as ‘good speed bumps.

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Thursday

Teresa Mull

Why woke culture wants you to be fat

Americans are fat and getting fatter. “More than two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or have obesity,” reports Heathline.com. The CDC (I actually trust them on this one) says that between 1999 and 2020, “obesity prevalence increased from 30.5 percent to 41.9 percent,” and severe obesity “increased from 4.7 percent to 9.2 percent.” And so, in the wake of woke, Old Navy and other clothing companies are (trying to) cash-in on our widening waistlines by disguising their latest capitalistic campaign as “inclusive sizing.” I gave up shopping for Lent. I made my return recently by perusing a Lands’ End catalog with my mother.