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Fatphobia with Kate Manne
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The Problematic Nature of BMI and its Origins
The speaker discusses the privilege of not having to worry about BMI as a concern from doctors. They highlight the problematic nature of the BMI metric and its origins in the work of a Belgian astronomer in the 19th century. Initially called the Kettle index, it was meant to track the average weight in a population, and the astronomer believed that identifying the mean also identified the ideal, leading to a normative conception of the mean.
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