The chapter delves into societal attitudes towards appetite, highlighting the complexities of regulating pleasures like food and indulgence. It challenges the societal messaging that shifts responsibilities to individuals and discusses how societal norms around guilt and addiction need to be questioned. The conversation also explores perceptions of weight loss, beauty standards, and the impact of societal structures on body image and worthiness.
Ozempic. It started with a lizard, and then transformed into a drug that, depending on who you ask, is either a miracle or the downfall of society. New Yorker writer and cultural critic Jia Tolentino joins Trevor and Christiana to give context on the media circus surrounding weight loss drugs, and how Ozempic is changing the conversation around fatness in America.
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