so, you're skinny. what else?
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so, you're skinny. what else?
free eating felt unreachable to be in the same way that being queer felt. i knew it wasn’t inherently bad but it wasn’t what i desired for myself. what i wanted was to be perceived as most “normal”by heterosexuality, thin without trying and having proximity to and being viewed as attractive by men. both carry social currency and without either i
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When Dyson said, Show me how to have a body like yours, what I heard was: Show me how to internalize the expectations of magazines and commercials and lip-licking men in the street. Show me how to obsess over myself. To hate myself. To see my body as something both valuable and worthless, something constantly under construction. That was, I
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