Another piece, from the US, for our overflowing “You couldn’t make this s*** up!!!” 4-drawer filing cabinet. Isn’t it just wonderful that taxpayer-funded academia (men pay almost three-quarters of the income tax collected in the UK) offers so many employment opportunities to otherwise unemployable feminist land whales? An extract:
In an article called “Teaching about Eating Disorders from a Fat Studies Perspectives,” [Professor Patti] Lou-Watkins discusses the sorts of “pedagogy” she now applies in her courses.
“I grew to embrace feminist pedagogy in terms of course content as well as classroom practices,” she explains. “My course now frames body image disturbances more as a function of oppressive societal structures than of individual pathology.”
In yet another article, Lou-Watkins celebrates the fact that “the field of fat studies has undergone tremendous growth in recent years, with colleges now offering courses in this area,” such as hers.
In 2012 my book Feminism: The Ugly Truth was published. I like to think I nailed the issue of female obesity in Chapter 9, Why are fat women fat?
Justice for Men & Boys 
If you are on a fat studies course, do you fail if you are less than 300 lb at the final weigh-in, I mean exam?
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Well I try not to comment on America but this sort of thing makes me ashamed somehow, when across the world there are so many who have too little to eat and those who have enough have diets of boring monotony. The other shame is that a western institution of learning can treat something that looks like a “Chat” magazine article as if it was “pedagogy”. As the worlds very fattest nations are all the “Anglosphere” it would appear we are embarrassingly ignorant of the facts of weight gain. Frankly the NHS would be better to devote its resources to helping men with weight loss (and interestingly studies show males are far more likely to be successful on a weight loss programme) as its pretty clear women are hugely resistant to the very idea of self control. Of course in fact the reverse is true with tax payer millions going into pretty unsuccessful programmes targeting women.
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Amazing how feminism tries to blame women’s obesity on ‘societal structures’…
It seems that feminists try to blame men for simply everything. Even young boys are to blame if adult female teachers sleep with them… And the judicial system follows the feminist philosophy. This is the result of men’s assumption/and pretense that women are equal to men in terms of work performance and judgement. Women have already virtually proved by their actions that they are not.
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‘My course now frames body image disturbances more as a function of oppressive societal structures than of individual pathology.‘
How is ‘feminist pedagogy’ going to ‘frame’ heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, liver disease, joint problems and all the other ‘oppressive societal structures’ attributable to chronic obesity?
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Typical feminists,blame everyone else for their own problems of their own making…….some of them are so fat they would need to diet to get into the roly-poly’s.
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Just come up with the latest miracle diet and get it published in Womans World and become a billionaire…..Barnum was right.
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