Thread by @annehelen

"Women experience this mandate to feed others at the same time that they absorb the message that women are more valued, & valuable, when they are beautiful, especially when they are also thin"

I talked to @EmilyContois about gender, power, Thanksgiving:

annehelen.substack.com/p/food-work

@EmilyContois "The work of idealized womanhood lies at this complex intersection of feeding others out of love, while denying our own appetites to feed ourselves so we’ll be thin and considered lovable."

annehelen.substack.com/p/food-work

When I first happened on some really troubling Intermittent Fasting threads on FB I wanted to write about it then thought nope gonna talk to someone who’s actually thought through this stuff

Yep!!!!!!! "For more than a century, moments of gender crisis— in the 1890s, the 1950s, the 1980s, and heck, now — go hand-in-hand with extreme anxiety about eating and our bodies."

I also spent too much time in the weird Thanksgiving Getty wormhole. The framing here!!!!

But I'm most obsessed with this image, which is so clearly the fed up mom fleeing her demanding family, headed to the bedroom to go eat the entire turkey herself