12/26/17, Mic, We don’t need a ”new skinny”, we need to obliterate beauty standards altogether, by Melissa A. Fabello

““I don’t think people hold health as a higher standard than beauty,” Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size, told Mic. “The opposite seems to be true. But what you don’t get is people willing to admit to it — and be condemned for their superficiality.”

The conflation of health with beauty is just that: superficial.”.