lljkk, the trouble I have with that particular article is every word says that if you are thin, you are giving in to social pressures and the underlying feeling throughout the piece is that is somehow unnatural state.
Even the last two paragraphs give me that feeling:
Orbach says she feels as though it is 'the perfect coming together of activists, and pressure on government ministers, and a change in culture. There is a lot of bravado around. There is a cockiness, a spunkiness, a sense of taking pleasure in our bodies. It?s a fury, with women saying, ?No, we are not all the same shape and size.? I think there is a real attempt to remake the culture in which we live. It feels like we are taking part in a dare, one where we say, ?It?s OK, this is who I am.? ?
And it is about time, too, she says. Time that we nourished our bodies, instead of torturing them.
On the one hand it celebrates the idea that we are not all the same shape and size; and on the other hand then puts this idea of torturing instead of nourishing our bodies on the table as an alternative and opposing train of thought. Which is equally unhelpful.
The article is all about hatred of people's own bodies - and yet says very little about how this hatred is being projected in all kinds of different ways - and not just in the direction of bigger women.
So for me, that particular article, misses the point just as much as the people it tries to criticise.