Society Has Never Hated Fat People As Much As We Do Right Now
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
To celebrate the release of Gina's memoir Greedy Guts, this episode hosts Ione and Gina get to grips with the current state of fat liberation. Is body positivity too commodified to be salvageable? Are people scared of fatness due to lingering Covid scaremongering resentment? Will GLP-1 injections end fat existence entirely?
Join Ione and Gina as they reckon with what it means to be fat in what is potentially the most fatphobic time to be alive in history.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor of Polyester. And I'm I'm Iione, the founding editor |
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| 0:51.8 | Hello from L.A. That is by you better doc thank you and then |
| 0:56.4 | prea esther david's on spotify said highlight of my monday commute which is very very kind and then some |
| 1:02.0 | little i don't know i was about to go on the heart there someone being mean to you said asterisk not |
| 1:09.1 | asterisk i know bloody humbleix. I know, bloody humbled. |
| 1:11.8 | It doesn't really matter, does it? |
| 1:13.0 | You know what I'm trying to say anyway, |
| 1:14.4 | and I've got a thick regional accent. |
| 1:16.2 | If you can understand it, then it's not a problem. |
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