It seems to me that modern feminist women have a collective action problem.
Let's say I accept and agree with, the modern progressive feminist lens of socitey.
-beauty standards are socially constructed phenomenon of the patriarchy.
-and it needs to be challenged and torn down to achieve true equality.
if the patriarchy is as a dominant a force as feminist believe it to be;
that means dismantling beauty standards
getting men to expand their lens of attraction to fatter bodies, older bodies,
and place less value on women's looks
that type of fundamental shift in culture will take decades I would think...
Is a fat women willing to wait,...stay fat and possibly die alone to achieve this shif?
or will she act in her own self interest, drop the weight, attract more men
...further retrenching, patriarchal beauty standards?
and there's always the risk that feminist are wrong, and somewhere encoded in men's DNA is an attraction to submissive women with flat stomachs.
if i was a women I wouldn't be willing to take that risk.
plus exercising and losing weight has benefits beyond its ability to attract men.
