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A review by cmang
Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith
4.0
“Your body is valuable but it is not your value”
This book is a very necessary examination of how fat bodies are treated in society today and its impacts on children and parents. It was radical and eye opening. I guarantee it will have you examining the language you use in front of kids. I read this on the heels of experiencing doctors appointment where I showed up to the GYN for a routine pap only to be told no less than 4 times in a 15 minute appointment that I should eat fewer carbs. I left that appointment horrified and knew immediately that I needed to find a new GYN, and this book validated that impulse. I wish my kids grandparents would read it. I wish everyone would read it.
A small critique. I’m the author narrates the audio, and she has whatever kind of accent that makes you add an “r” to words like “idea”. This isn’t a book I’d go out of my way to listen to instead of reading via hard copy.
This book is a very necessary examination of how fat bodies are treated in society today and its impacts on children and parents. It was radical and eye opening. I guarantee it will have you examining the language you use in front of kids. I read this on the heels of experiencing doctors appointment where I showed up to the GYN for a routine pap only to be told no less than 4 times in a 15 minute appointment that I should eat fewer carbs. I left that appointment horrified and knew immediately that I needed to find a new GYN, and this book validated that impulse. I wish my kids grandparents would read it. I wish everyone would read it.
A small critique. I’m the author narrates the audio, and she has whatever kind of accent that makes you add an “r” to words like “idea”. This isn’t a book I’d go out of my way to listen to instead of reading via hard copy.