“Let's be honest, when we put down Cosmopolitan or Vogue or Vanity Fair, how do we feel? Like (do we) feel 'Oh I feel really slim and toned today. I feel really good about myself.'? How do you really feel? Like a fat pig would that be about right?

That's crucial because the more women hate themselves, the more we build up corporations.

And what I wanna argue is that the corporate globalization is built on the shoulders of western women who loathe, hate, and detest their bodies, and women in developing countries who produce, for exploited wages, the products we consume because we hate ourselves.”

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