Book 2 Post 1

 Book 2 Post 1

I decided to read Audrey Gordon's What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat for the second book at the course. The reason behind is that I have been gaining some weights (so is my girlfriend) during the quarantine. We both felt pretty stressed out and unhappy about being fatter than before. I would love to learn more about the wrong mindset and how the society is bring to the group of people that might have fat issues. I would love to hear their thoughts.

When I read the introduction, I already felt the stress by author's descriptions about how the world and people around the fat people group being ignorant and indifferent about the body by showing pity, concerns, and more negative emotions toward. People are scared of being fat and people are afraid of themselves not being able to lose weight eventually. These mindsets are inevitably putting pressures on the group. The depth of influence the society has given to the fat people group actually reminds me of a TV show called New Girl. There is a male character called Schmidt who is extremely confident and charming because he is in a perfect body shape. In fact, he was a fat guy when he was young and he was always mocked by his classmates. He had to put on extra efforts in order to win the applause. Even though years later, Schmidt has become a well body shaped man and everything has changed, he would turn abase before his middle school friend. His friend would still try to mock him for being a fat guy before. The plot and the book helped me realize the difficult plight the fat people group has been in from time to time. I wish I could read and have more in depth thoughts when I start reading chapters.