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Expectations on Women with Elise Loehnen

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

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Diet Culture: How It Drives Itself

I think people get it along every single sort of every part of their life. It's like an echo chamber, you know, it's probably been repeated to you from your parents,. certainly by your friends, but it starts with culture. And it's this idea ultimately of early patriarchy and the subservience of women that is so ancient that it drives itself. When I feel those hateful thoughts about my body and words that are just simply not my own - they're someone else's words -- I imagine a group of nameless faceless, older men in a boardroom wearing suits and a round table counting money. That genuinely, genuinely shudders me out of the thought because I've

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