An Arizona State University professor was distressed to discover in a recent study that her female peers do not desire “the stigma of extreme weight gain.”

Professor Breanne Fahs, a self-described “fat woman,” recently published an article in the Women’s Studies International Forum in which she declared that “the fear of fatness is far more extreme, exaggerated, and terrible than the lived realities of living in a fat body.”

Fahs interviewed 20 random females for the article, asking them questions about their current weight and what they thought of the prospect of gaining 100 pounds.

Not surprisingly, not a single one of the women she surveyed was enthused about the idea, leading Fahs to remark with dismay that “no participants described gaining 100 pounds as a positive thing to imagine” [emphasis in original].

During the survey, in fact, four women “shrieked in disgust” or “started laughing uncontrollably” in response to Fahs’ questions, thinking the professor was joking.

Fahs also bemoans the fact that not a single woman in the study “mentioned any positive aspects of fatness, and no women identified fatness as physically or personally important (even hypothetically)” [emphasis in original].

P/C PIXABAY