bustin' makes me feel good

This book clearly takes the words of actual feedists and fat people into account, and represents the diverse community and forms that feedism can take. It also raises the inherent problems with feedism in a very respectful way that doesn't feel demonizing or like they're saying it needs to stop because of those things. That also isn't the point of the book, which I appreciated - all of the academic texts on feedism that I have read have focused on how feedism is men preying on fat girls, which is untrue in the vast majority of cases, and this book addresses that oversimplification very well. It provides a very balanced account that doesn't feel like they went in with an opinion already formed about feedism being good or bad, they just describe the community around it. It interviews quite a few members of the community, and overall provides quite a positive view of feedism.

I found it super validating to see my opinions on and experience with the feedism community echoed in an academic text, and I thought it was really great to know that there is good, balanced information available in the academic world now about this community, not just oversimplified pieces that demonize us. It's also not written in a complicated, intimidating way. I am a fairly fast reader, but I read the whole thing in a couple hours. I really enjoyed it!

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