“A Skinny Bitch Book Review” from Leslie Goldman’s “The Weighting Game”
Posted November 15, 2007 at 04:00 PM by Sahara Jackson
Section: Her Health, Her Motivation, Books, Her Nutrition
True story: A bum once asked me for change while I was living in Boystown, Chicago’s gay district. I said, “No, thanks,” because I was trying to be polite. And as I passed, he mumbled, “Skinny bitch.”
I remember being both taken aback but also a bit confused. Was this an insult? Yes, I’m pretty sure. But, as my retro 50’s-style magnet reads with a wink, “You say I’m a bitch like it’s a bad thing.”
As for the “skinny” insult, he was likely insinuating I lacked the impressive breasts and bootyliciousness which was surgically bestowed upon many of the drag queens living in my neighborhood.
I was reminded of this episode when I sat down to offer you by thoughts on the monster hit book Skinny Bitch by former model Kim Barnouin and former model agent Rory Freedman (Running Press, 2005). The slim tone created a frenzy when Posh Spice was seen looking at it in some expensive store and the paparazzi took a pic, though it had been out for years before that. Soon, it seemed, everyone was carrying it around like some sort of Bible. I never bought it because I’d heard it was actually filled with hardcore anti-meat rhetoric, but during a recent blog about the benefits of cow’s milk versus soy milk here on Weighting Game, dear reader Charlotte challenged me to a book report. After putting it off for ages (sorry, Char!), I’ve finally committed to doing it. I called the publisher (I should mention it is published by the same house taht published Locker Room Diaries, Perseus, though in a different division), requested a review copy, and…
found that it was, in fact, filled with hardcore anti-meat rhetoric.
Read the rest of Leslie’s entry on her blog, The Weighting Game.
Leslie Goldman, MPH, is the author of Locker Room Diaries: The Naked Truth About Women, Body Image, and Re-Imaging the “Perfect” Body (DaCapo, 2007). She lives in Chicago, where she writes about women’s health for publications like the Chicago Tribune, Health, Runner’s World, Women’s Health and Shape. Check out more of Leslie’s health tips at her blog, The Weighting Game.
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