Expectations on Women with Elise Loehnen
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
The Origins of Women's Weight Size
Roxanne Jones: Women's weight and size is not an attribute of wealth, the way it can be in some cultures. This is more of a Judeo-Christian patriarchal view, she says. And therein lies our disposable attitude towards the planet that we live on because we look at a woman as Mother Earth who will just give and give and give without ever depositing anything back into this gendered world. We're trying to pour back into this thing that we've just gendered randomly... Even though they are disproportionately impacted by climate change, women don't happen to be the ones who break rules.
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