On Rape Culture and Diet Culture (and believing Christine Blasey Ford)
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We don’t talk enough about the link between diet culture and rape culture. I wrote about campus rape a few years ago, and one survivor, the incredible Loretta Ross, told me that in the decades following the three rapes she experienced as a teenager, she quite deliberately binged and used drugs to cope with her trauma. “I visited my trauma on my body,” she said. “It was suicide through cigarettes and food.” It was also protection. Being young and thin had made her body vulnerable, a target. She needed to feel safe.
On Rape Culture and Diet Culture (and believing Christine Blasey Ford)
On Rape Culture and Diet Culture (and…
On Rape Culture and Diet Culture (and believing Christine Blasey Ford)
We don’t talk enough about the link between diet culture and rape culture. I wrote about campus rape a few years ago, and one survivor, the incredible Loretta Ross, told me that in the decades following the three rapes she experienced as a teenager, she quite deliberately binged and used drugs to cope with her trauma. “I visited my trauma on my body,” she said. “It was suicide through cigarettes and food.” It was also protection. Being young and thin had made her body vulnerable, a target. She needed to feel safe.