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In the article “Fat Studies” I could not help and think about how issues around obesity seem to be once again a problem faced largely by women of color. Would obesity be such a “gross” concept if it were a majority white man’s problem? Weight loss commercials target women and a larger rate then men. Is this a way to control body image? In “Sex and Far Chics: Deterritorializing the Fat Female Body,: Jana Evans Braziel examines the cultural positioning of the fat femal body between two poles-the asexuality of obesity and the extreme salacious-ness (or hyper sexuality) of fat femmes, who threaten to devour all. Deconstructing these poles, Braziel suggests that because fatness has been seen through the history of Western thought as threatening to stability, order, and hierarchy, it needs to be tamed of delaminated (13). This made me think of Venus Hottentot, and women like her who had different body types. They were not celebrated but thought of as too strong, powerful, they had too much presence, and were threatening. As woman interested in woman’s health, I do not agree with being unhealthy, but not being rail thin does not constitute obesity.