The Cult of Thinness

Here is a fantastic quote from The Cult of Thinness by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, who is quoting David M. Garner, PhD (emphasis added by me):

The way many women use scales is grossly destructive. The scale is a cruel purveyor of personal worth for the day. If you wanted to come up with a plot to take an entire gender and render them less effective, you’d put them on a diet and have them buy a scale. The human energy wasted by women thinking about these numbers is enormous. (134)

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