Would be neat if pieces on women's weight realised that 1) no-one is unaware of evidence, to assume otherwise is infantilising and 2) the issue has been subject to decades of feminist examination, and informed discussion requires engaging with wider social and historical context.
Critiquing societal response to and factors influencing weight change isn't the same as commenting on an individual for losing weight. Those seriously interested in issues around it should want to examine the subject's entire context. Anything else is neither informed nor useful.
There's commentary that puts any criticism of the societal response to weight loss down to "personal insecurities", which, apart from being mean-spirited, dismisses women's ability to intellectually explore issues about their own existence and instead frames it as petty jealousy.
Outside of feminist explorations of narratives around weight, there should be an awareness of the implied value judgement that lauding health (often assumed rather than actual) *above all else* has on people seen to fall short of this standard, e.g. those with chronic illness.
TL;DNR: Narratives around weight loss cannot be divorced from wider context and any genuine desire to explore or discuss them should be informed by critiques that have already been done re: fat and feminism, ableism and other issues. Over-simplification does more harm than good.
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