Peg Kerr's Journal

I will say also that this kind of virulent virtue is not unique to homophobia and being closted. It's women who have lost great amounts of weight through punitive measures, losing health, beauty, and happiness - and the ability to think without obsessiveness about food - in the process, who are most vicious in attacking fat women who 'don't make an effort to take care of themselves' - e.g., like their bodies, or don't wish to engage in a process so destructive, themselves. It's parents who are miserable through self-sacrifice who are least sympathetic to their children's impulses to self-ingulgence. I dare say it was teachers who were born left-handed themselves and forced to use their right hands, who were most harsh about forcing their own students to do likewise. I had to suffer. Why do you think you should escape?