Thank you! I feel like I've been sent back to bizarro 80's. A racist addle brained celebrity who has the backing of Christian nationalists is going to restructure the government in his image for generations. White supremacists marching in the streets, apartheid, famine. Meanwhile, my tween daughter's friends are all obsessed with make-up, nails and their weight. I'm losing my mind.
I didn't know we would be fighting the same battles as our daughters in the exact same way. Watching influencers weighing their food, fit bits, cleanses, ozempic. It's the same as Susanne Somers, pedometers, slim fast and prescription amphetamines. Diet culture never really left, we just keep doing it again and again.
I’m 64 years old and just became a grandma- I both can’t believe and absolutely CAN believe that my 8-week-old beloved granddaughter has been born into a full-throttle revival of all this bullshit.
I do find that I’m feeling the power of my experience and wisdom more than ever now.
They want us to shrink ourselves. They also want us to fear growing old. Interesting, isn’t it, considering what the only other option to growing old actually IS…
Thank you! I feel like I've been sent back to bizarro 80's. A racist addle brained celebrity who has the backing of Christian nationalists is going to restructure the government in his image for generations. White supremacists marching in the streets, apartheid, famine. Meanwhile, my tween daughter's friends are all obsessed with make-up, nails and their weight. I'm losing my mind.
I didn't know we would be fighting the same battles as our daughters in the exact same way. Watching influencers weighing their food, fit bits, cleanses, ozempic. It's the same as Susanne Somers, pedometers, slim fast and prescription amphetamines. Diet culture never really left, we just keep doing it again and again.
All of this!!! It's a truly a WILD time and diet culture truly just keeps reinventing itself.
yes!!
thank you!
Thank you so much for this!
I’m 64 years old and just became a grandma- I both can’t believe and absolutely CAN believe that my 8-week-old beloved granddaughter has been born into a full-throttle revival of all this bullshit.
I do find that I’m feeling the power of my experience and wisdom more than ever now.
They want us to shrink ourselves. They also want us to fear growing old. Interesting, isn’t it, considering what the only other option to growing old actually IS…
It is all of a piece.
thank you!